rja46's list 2003-05-13 17:00: Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms (Professor Mike Hopkins, MIT) 2004-05-25 17:00: Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics (Professor Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University) 2005-01-19 11:15: Swelling and deformation of gels: an old problem revisited (Professor Masao Doi) 2005-01-28 14:00: Sudden Cardiac Death. Medicine is not enough, we need physical sciences as well (Dr Richard Saumarez) 2005-04-21 01:15: The properties of free polymer surfaces and their effect upon the glass transition in thin polymer films (Dr James Sharp, University of Nottingham) 2005-05-13 13:30: The Outstanding Magnetic Behaviour of Nematic Suspensions of Goethite Nanorods (Patrick Davidson, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay, France) 2005-05-17 17:00: The Ramanujan Conjecture and its generalizations (Professor Peter Sarnak, Princeton) 2005-05-20 14:15: Bio-Inspired Crystal Growth (Dr Fiona Meldrum, Biomineralisation, University of Bristol) 2005-06-10 14:15: Thin film and interface effects in electroactive and responsive polymers (Prof Richard Jones, Dept of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield) 2005-06-24 14:15: Differences between non-specific and bio-specific, and between equilibrium and non-equilibrium, interactions in biological systems (Professor Jacob Israelachvili, University of Calirfornia Santa Barbara) 2005-10-06 16:15: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem (Prof F Wilczek, MIT) 2005-10-06 20:00: This House would rather warm up the planet than cool down the economy. (see abstract) 2005-10-07 14:15: Dynamics of single molecular motors labeled to quantum dots in a living cell (Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Dpartement de Physique, Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris) 2005-10-07 18:45: Sir Jeremy Greenstock (Sir Jeremy Greenstock) 2005-10-10 19:30: Robert Frisk (Robert Frisk) 2005-10-13 20:00: This House believes that the European Union is bad for Britain (see abstact) 2005-10-14 14:15: Granular Segregation as a Critical Phenomenon (Prof. Tom Mullin, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics) 2005-10-17 20:30: The Larmor Lecture: Epidemiology - where are the limits? (Professor Nick E Day, Strangeways Research Laboratory) 2005-10-21 14:15: Protein Assisted Assembly of Carbon Nanotube into Functional Materials - joint with Nanoscience (Dr. Alan B. Dalton, Department of Physics and the Unis Materials Institute, University of Surrey) 2005-10-24 19:30: The eyes: gateway to the soul? - Iris Recognition Technology (Dr John Daugman OBE, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2005-10-31 20:30: Our Dynamic Sun (Dr Helen Mason, DAMTP) 2005-11-04 14:15: Functional nanoporous materials from reactive block copolymers (Marc Hillmyer, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota) 2005-11-07 19:30: Eve, Uncovered - Sequencing the human X-chromosome (Dr Alison Coffey, The Sanger Centre and the Human Genome Project, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge) 2005-11-09 17:15: The Free Will Theorem (Professor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University) 2005-11-11 14:15: In situ experiments in the ESEM - a challenge for both the scientist and the engineer (Dr Armin Zankel, Research Institute for Electron Microscopy, Graz University of Technology) 2005-11-21 19:30: Faster than the speed of sound - The M52 -the worlds first supersonic aircraft (Rod Kirkby, CSAR Member, aeronautical engineer, and aviation artist) 2005-11-25 15:30: Atomic force microscopy and force spectroscopy of membrane proteins - Joint seminar with Nanoscience (Sonja Contera, Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford) 2005-11-28 20:30: Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins (Professor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry) 2005-12-05 19:30: Receiving you, Loud and Clear - Digital radio, and its future in the UK (Mike Ellis, BBC Research and Development) 2005-12-16 09:00: Evolution of the Earth (Professor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS.) 2006-01-20 17:30: SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES (Paul Kennedy, Yale University) 2006-01-23 19:30: Hush, here comes an aircraft! - The Silent Aircraft Initiative (Professor Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering) 2006-01-25 14:00: Mathematical Models of Tumour Dormancy (Dr Karen Page, Department of Computer Science, UCL) 2006-01-27 14:15: Polymers in motion (Dick J. Broer, Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2006-01-27 17:30: SURVIVAL OF CULTURE (Edith Hall, Durham University) 2006-02-01 14:00: TBC (Prof. David Balding, Department of Epdemiology and Public Health, Imperial College) 2006-02-03 17:30: SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES (Peter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London) 2006-02-06 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem (Prof F Wilczek, MIT) 2006-02-07 19:30: Just print me another computer, will you? - The world of plastic electronics (Dr Henning Sirringhaus, Chief Scientist at Plastic Logic, Cambridge Science Park, Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the University of Cambridge) 2006-02-08 14:00: Disease in a changing landscape (Professor Chris Gilligan, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2006-02-08 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Dark Matters: WIMPs and Axions (Prof F Wilczek, MIT) 2006-02-10 16:15: New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology. Diquarks: Reforming Hadron Spectroscopy (Prof F Wilczek, MIT) 2006-02-10 17:30: SURVIVING DISEASE (Richard Feachem, Global Fund) 2006-02-13 20:30: Inositol: evolution's favourite molecule? (Professor Robin Irvine, FRS) 2006-02-15 14:00: To be confirmed (Daniel Crowther) 2006-02-17 14:15: Ligand-receptor interactions in proteins and membranes (P-L Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris) 2006-02-17 17:30: SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS (James Jackson, Cambridge University) 2006-02-20 19:30: Antibiotics, 75 years on - New antibiotics, using genes cloned from Streptomyces species (Professor Sir David Hopwood, FRS, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich) 2006-02-22 14:00: To be confirmed (Daniel Wolpert) 2006-02-24 14:15: Fission yeast interphase microtubules: self-sufficient and self-centred! (Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, CCL Cancer Research UK, London) 2006-02-24 17:30: SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE (Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) 2006-02-27 20:30: Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease. (Professor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2006-02-28 17:00: Images, Objects and the Scientific Self: The Assassin of Relativity (Peter Galison) 2006-03-01 14:00: Modelling equine influenza (James Woods, CIDC, Cambridge Veterinary School, University of Cambridge) 2006-03-03 14:15: Signal processing in bacterial chemotaxis (Victor Sourjik) 2006-03-03 17:30: SURVIVING LONGER (Cynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco) 2006-03-06 17:00: Images, Objects and the Scientific Self: Picturing Objectivity (Peter Galison) 2006-03-06 19:30: Antibiotics are no substitute for good hygiene - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; the importance of hospital cleanliness and practices (Dr Norman Alan Simmons, CBE, Emeritus Consultant Microbiologist, Guys and St Thomas Hospital Trust) 2006-03-07 12:30: Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model (Dr Neil Lawrence, Computer Science, University of Sheffield) 2006-03-07 17:00: Objects and the Scientific Self I: What Machines Demand of Us (Peter Galison) 2006-03-08 14:00: Phase transitions in biopolymers: statistical mechanics of interacting loops (David Mukamel, The Weizmann Institute of Science) 2006-03-10 14:15: Granular materials with even circuits: Ball-bearings and dry quicksand (Professor Nick Rivier, Laboratoire de Physique Thorique, Universit Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France) 2006-03-10 17:30: SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE (Diana Liverman, Oxford University) 2006-03-13 10:00: PLEASE NOTE SEMINAR CANCELLED (Jochen Guck, Universitt Leipzig) 2006-03-13 20:30: The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body. (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2006-03-14 17:00: Objects and the Scientific Self II: Wastelands and Wilderness (Speaker to be confirmed) 2006-03-24 14:15: Measuring Intermolecular Forces in Biology (Dr Erik Schffer, Dresden) 2006-04-21 14:15: Polyelectrolyte multilayer microcapsules as a novel biomimetic system (Prof. Dr. Olga Vinogradova, http://www.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~vinograd) 2006-04-24 19:30: Defence research: Changing world, changing priorities (R&D in the MoD) (Professor Phil Sutton, Director-General (Research and Development), Ministry of Defence, Whitehall) 2006-04-26 19:00: An introduction to Molecular Gastronomy - Why do we like some foods and hate others ? (Dr Peter Barham, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol) 2006-04-28 16:00: Fractality and intermittency in non-homogeneous environmental flows (Jose Redondo, Barcelona) 2006-05-01 20:00: Biological Computation: The Machinery of the Cell - Nobel Laureate Talk (Professor Sir Sydney Brenner) 2006-05-02 17:00: Human Evolution: what can be known? (Richard Leakey) 2006-05-03 16:00: New Developments in Optical Imaging (Brad Amos (MRC-LMB)) 2006-05-05 16:00: Thermofluid dynamics of cities (Rex Britter, Cambridge) 2006-05-08 19:30: Obesity and Modern Humans - Diet, lifestyle or simply in our genes? (Professor Steve ORahilly, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) 2006-05-09 17:00: Ergodic theorems along polynomials: from combinatorial applications to challenges for physicists (Professor Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University) 2006-05-12 14:15: Interfaces, Films and Membranes: Soft Matter Physics in 2 Dimensions (Dr Pietro Cicuta) 2006-05-12 16:00: The role of boundary layer friction in mid latitude weather systems (Stephen Belcher, Reading) 2006-05-15 11:00: DNA-based supramolecular structures and devices (Dr Friedrich Simmel) 2006-05-19 11:00: Applying Nonlinear Dynamics in Medicine to Understand Cardiac Arrhythmias and Epilepsy (Dr Jennifer Simonotto) 2006-05-19 16:00: Negative viscosity, baroclinic heat flux and beta-plane jets (Bill Young, Scripps) 2006-05-22 19:30: An Alternative to the Infernal Combustion engine.? - Modern Fuel Cells (Professor John Kilner, Department of Materials, Imperial College, London) 2006-05-23 11:00: CANCELLED (Dr Mark Leake) 2006-05-24 09:30: CCBI 2nd Annual Symposium (http://www.ccbi.cam.ac.uk/Events/Workshops/symp_06.php) 2006-05-26 11:00: Single Molecule Approaches to Biology (Dr Liming Ying) 2006-05-26 14:15: 3-D cryo-EM in biology: specimen preparation and imaging for tomography (Michael Marko) 2006-05-26 16:00: Hermann Helmholtz on vortex motion (Olivier Darrigol, Paris) 2006-05-30 16:00: To be confirmed (Dr Tsuyoshi Kimura) 2006-06-01 19:00: Art & Authenticity - Science in the fight against art forgery (Dr Nicholas Eastaugh, Pigmentum Project) 2006-06-02 11:00: Single Molecule Force-Spectroscopy Maps the Details of the Protein Free Energy Landscape (Dr Jasna Brujic (Fernandez Lab, University of Columbia)) 2006-06-02 14:15: Ultrafast and low barrier motions in the photoreactions of the Green Fluorescent Protein (Dr Jasper van Thor) 2006-06-02 16:00: On the global regularity of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations and other relevant geophysical models (Edriss Titi, Weizmann and UC Irvine) 2006-06-05 20:00: Nobel Laureate Talk - John Walker (Professor Sir John Walker) 2006-06-06 19:30: Looking inside a star (and other stories) - Developments in Radio Astronomy made here in Cambridge (Professor Richard Hills, Professor of Radio Astronomy, the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2006-06-07 16:00: Breaking the Resolution Limit in Light Microscopy (Rainer Heintzmann (King's College London)) 2006-06-09 14:15: Kinetics and Pathways in Self-Assembly: Light Scattering and Theoretical Studies on Human Papillomavirus Capsids (Professor David Wu, Chemical Engineering Department, Colorado School of Mines) 2006-06-09 14:30: Afternoon of short talks by 2nd-year research students (DAMTP 2nd Years) 2006-06-13 17:30: Magnetic Materials: Where are the limits? (Professor Michael Coey , Trinity College , Dublin) 2006-06-15 11:00: The Interaction of Light with Cells (Dr Jochen Guck (Universität Leipzig)) 2006-06-16 14:15: Nanomechanics of self-assembled protein filaments (Dr Laurent Kreplak) 2006-06-16 16:00: The statics and dynamics of liquid foam (Denis Weaire, Dublin) 2006-06-19 12:00: Nanopores for Biological and Soft-Matter Physics (Dr. Ulrich F. Keyser, Delft University of Technology) 2006-06-23 09:30: Biology from First Principles? (Professor Mike Payne, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-06-23 10:15: Minimal models of self-assembly and protein crystallization in vivo (Dr Jonathan Doye, (Department of Chemistry)) 2006-06-23 11:25: Protein Sequence Variations involved in disease - a structural perspective (Dr David Burke, (Department of Biochemistry)) 2006-06-23 12:10: Binding site similarity, small- molecule similarity and binding profiles (Dr Rafi Najmanovich, (European Bioinformatics Institute)) 2006-06-23 13:55: Stochastic events in cell signalling (Dr Dennis Bray, (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2006-06-23 14:40: Evolution and Dynamics of Transcriptional Regulatory Networks (Dr Sarah Teichmann, (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)) 2006-06-23 15:50: Energy Landscapes of Biomolecules (Dr David Wales - Department of Chemistry, Cambridge) 2006-06-23 16:35: Computational Methods for the Analysis of Protein Structure, Shape and Function (Dr Richard Morris, (John Innes Centre, Norwich)) 2006-06-28 17:00: Ligand detection and discrimination by spatial relocalisation: the complexities of T cell activation (Nigel Burroughs (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick)) 2006-07-04 14:15: Explaining the Broadband Absorbance of Melanins (Jennifer Riesz, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) 2006-07-05 16:00: Optical Imaging in Cancer and Radiobiology (Borivoj Vojnovic (Gray Cancer Institute)) 2006-07-12 16:00: Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of voltage in dendritic spines. (Rafael Yuste, Howard Hughes Medical Institute) 2006-07-27 14:00: From 9/11 to 2012: Using Computer Simulations to Model Mass Evacuations from Infrastructure Failures (Chris Johnson, University of Glasgow) 2006-09-06 16:00: summer holiday (back in october) 2006-09-11 14:00: Describing drug toxicity using functional data analysis and the model-driven clustering of gene-expression bio-markers (Dr. Quin Wills SimuGen) 2006-09-13 16:15: Hereditary spastic paraplegia, BMP signaling, and axonal degeneration in Drosophila (Xinnan Wang, O'Kane lab, Department of Genetics) 2006-09-13 16:15: Ubx controls Notch/ Numb dependent cell fate decisions in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila (Torsten Bossing, Brand lab, Gurdon Institut) 2006-10-02 16:30: PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS OF CORTICAL CIRCUITS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE (Prof. Sacha Nelson, Brandeis University USA) 2006-10-05 14:00: Why do research? (Peter Lawrence, MRC lab, Cambridge (UK)) 2006-10-05 14:15: Introduction to the Rainbow Group (Rainbow members) 2006-10-05 16:00: From sodium pump to calcium pump - going round in circles? (Prof. Roger Thomas, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-10-05 16:00: Mixture Models and the EM Algorithm (Professor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2006-10-09 13:15: Right Hand-Left Hand: On the Origins of asymmetry in vertebrates (Idan Tuval, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-09 16:30: High resolution models of genome regulatory events (Prof. David Gifford (MIT)) 2006-10-09 19:30: Colision Course - How Science is abused by the Media (Professor Brian J Ford, Writer, Broadcaster and CSAR Member of Council) 2006-10-09 20:00: Why intelligent design is for stupid people (Professor Steve Jones, Department of Genetics, UCL) 2006-10-11 14:00: DESCRIBING DRUG TOXICITY USING FUNCTIONAL DATA ANALYSIS AND THE MODEL-DRIVEN CLUSTERING OF GENE EXPRESSION BIOMARKERS. (HOW TO TURN YOUR MPHIL INTO A PAYCHEQUE) (Dr Quin Wills (CSO, Simugen Ltd)) 2006-10-11 16:15: Postsynaptic phosphorylation networks (Marcelo Coba, Grant lab, Sanger Institute) 2006-10-11 16:15: Defining the neural stem cell state (Steven Pollard, Smith lab, Institute for Stem Cell Biology) 2006-10-12 16:00: Chipping away at genome regulation (Dr Rob White, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-10-12 16:00: (feed)-Back to the Future: (feed)-Forward thinking on the interplay between Golgi cells and granule cells in the cerebellum (Dr Tahl Holtzman, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-10-13 12:00: Multiple Instance Learning for Natural Language Tasks (Mark Craven, University of Cambridge (visiting)) 2006-10-16 20:30: Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture (Professor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-17 19:00: Why study the Burgess Shale? Memories from the 1966-7 expeditions (Professor Harry Whittington (former Woodwardian Professor), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-18 14:00: Linear Separability of Gene Expression Dataset (Dr. Benny Chor (University of Tel-Aviv)) 2006-10-19 14:00: *** POSTPONED *** - Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans (Manolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK)) 2006-10-19 16:00: Roles of feedback regulation of signaling in kidney and brain development (Prof. Ivor Mason, King's College London) 2006-10-19 19:00: History of Science : Gaiters and gunpowder - the extraordinary story of Richard Watson, professor of chemistry and bishop. (Prof. Colin A.Russell, The Open University and the University of Cambridge.) 2006-10-20 12:00: Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler (Manny Rayner, Powerset.com/Geneva University) 2006-10-20 14:15: Compact self-wired cultured neural networks (Dr Yael Hanein, School of Electrical Engineering; Physical Electronics, Tel-Aviv University) 2006-10-23 16:30: THE ANALYSIS OF VISUAL MOTION (Prof. Tony Movshon New York University USA) 2006-10-23 19:30: Soft Small and Interesting - Soft Matter: towards Soft Nanotechnology (Professor Ullrich Steiner, Professor of Physics of Materials, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-23 20:00: Malaria: from science to action (Professor Nicholas White, Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme) 2006-10-24 13:00: Acquiring Ontological Relationships from Wikipedia Using RMRS (Aurelie Herbelot, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-25 14:00: Evolution and dynamics of transcription factor repertoires (Sarah Teichmann (LMB)) 2006-10-26 14:00: Wiring the worm: global functional and genetic networks for a multicellular animal (Andrew Fraser, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK)) 2006-10-26 16:00: Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need glia (Dr Matthieu Vermeren, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-10-26 16:00: Neuronal excitability is controlled by pH - but the pH of what? (Schwiening Lab, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-10-26 16:00: Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (Ed Snelson, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2006-10-27 13:15: Neurodegeneration, membrane traffic and BMP signaling in Drosophila. (Cahir O'Kane, Dept. of Genetics) 2006-10-27 14:15: Some properties of microgel particles (Dr Alex Routh, Department of Chemical Engineering and BP Institute, University of Cambridge) 2006-10-30 20:30: The life habits of the trilobites (Professor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London) 2006-10-31 15:00: *ectopic seminar* Evidence for the existence of organism-specific regulatory elements that are linked to RNAi (Isidore Rigoutsos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, U.S.A.) 2006-10-31 19:00: The Cambrian explosion: as mysterious as ever? (Professor Simon Conway Morris, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-01 14:00: Cell signalling and oscillations (Dr. Kojiro Kano, DAMTP and PDN, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-01 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle (Sir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK) 2006-11-02 14:00: Vertebrate Limb Patterning and Morphogenesis (Miguel Torres, Universidad Autónoma Madrid (Spain)) 2006-11-02 16:00: Programming the blood & cardiovascular system in Xenopus & zebrafish embryos (Prof. Roger Patient, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford) 2006-11-02 19:00: Spectacular Chemistry Lecture & Demonstration - Thunder & Lightning ! (Colin Baker, Director Studies, Bedford School) 2006-11-03 12:00: The Weakest Link: Detecting and Correcting Errors in Learner English (Pete Whitelock, Sharp Laboratories) 2006-11-03 13:15: In vivo calcium imaging during zebrafish somite and muscle (Caroline Brennan, Queen Mary University of London) 2006-11-03 14:15: Laser Manipulation in Liquid Crystals: an approach to microfluidics and micromachines (Prof Helen Gleeson, Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, Manchester University) 2006-11-06 16:30: A MOTOR CORTICAL NETWORK FOR VISUALLY GUIDED GRASP IN PRIMATES (Prof. Roger Lemon Institute of Neurology London) 2006-11-06 18:30: Is history science? (Professor Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-06 19:30: Mother Nature Knows Best: Making Heat-Stable Vaccines (Dr Bruce Roser, Chief Scientific Officer, Cambridge Biostability, Cambridge) 2006-11-06 20:00: Sleepfaring: A journey through the science of sleep (Professor Jim Horne, Loughborough Sleep Research Centre) 2006-11-07 15:00: Learning microRNA regulatory networks from genomic sequence and expression data (Jim Huang, University of Toronto) 2006-11-08 16:15: Regulation of spindle orientation and neural stem cell fate in the Drosophila optic lobe (Boris Egger, Brand lab, Gurdon Institute) 2006-11-08 16:15: Regulation of the positional stability of neurons: why you need glia (Matthieu Vermeren, PDN) 2006-11-09 13:00: Machine Learning Reading Group in Engineering Department (Speaker to be confirmed) 2006-11-09 14:00: Distinct roles for Tcf/Lef genes in mediating tissue-specific Wnt/beta-catenin signalling in Xenopus mesoderm development. (Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen (UK)) 2006-11-09 16:00: How does the cytoskeleton regulate cell shape during morphogenesis? (Dr Katja Roper, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-11-09 16:00: New brain cells for old - neurogenesis in the adult brain: what happens and does it matter? (Prof. Joe Herbert, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-11-09 16:00: Causality (Dr Ricardo Silva, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2006-11-10 12:00: Fuzzy Language Models and Closed Domain Question Answering using Fuzzy Semantics (Richard Bergmair, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-10 13:15: Cell biological parameters that modulate the range of Wingless in Drosophila epithelia. (Jean Paul Vincent, NIMR, Mill Hill) 2006-11-10 14:15: C Dots: Highly Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles for Materials and Life Sciences Applications (Prof Uli Wiesner, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University) 2006-11-13 10:00: Algebraic Routing (Part 1) (Tim Griffin) 2006-11-13 16:30: CORTICAL CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN HUMAN PREMOTOR, MOTOR AND PARIETAL CORTEX EXPLORED WITH TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (Prof. John Rothwell Institute of Neurology London) 2006-11-13 20:00: Influenza virus membrane glycoproteins in virus replication and variation (Sir John Skehel, MRC-NIMR) 2006-11-13 20:30: Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system (Dr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) 2006-11-14 19:00: Process or cultural relativism in prehistory? (Dr Simon Stoddart, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-15 10:00: Algebraic Routing (Part 2) (Tim Griffin) 2006-11-15 14:00: Microarrays and molecular biology: beyond gene expression profiling (Dr. Paul Bertone, EBI) 2006-11-16 13:00: Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction (Frederik Eaton and Arik Azran) 2006-11-16 14:00: Introduction and Welcome (Professor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, Cambridge)) 2006-11-16 14:00: Sexual selection and sexual conflict (David Hosken, University of Exeter (UK)) 2006-11-16 14:15: Understanding Biology from the Atomistic Scale (Professor Mike Payne, Cavendish Laboratory) 2006-11-16 14:45: Soft Matter Physics of Cells (Professor Athene Donald (Department of Physics, Cambridge)) 2006-11-16 15:15: Physical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularity (Professor Ray Goldstein (DAMTP, Cambridge)) 2006-11-16 16:00: Motor neuron degeneration and legs at odd angles (Prof. Elizabeth Fisher) 2006-11-16 16:00: Expectation Propagation (Dr Tom Minka, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2006-11-16 16:00: Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses (Dr. Atsushi Ogura, Department of developmental biology and neuroscience, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) 2006-11-16 16:00: Speciation and genomic diversity of Drosophila species: based on microarray and genome analyses (Dr. Atsushi Ogura, Department of developmental biology and neuroscience, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) 2006-11-16 16:15: Can Polymer Physics Help Cellular Biomedicine? (Professor Josef Käs (Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig)) 2006-11-16 16:45: How nature "designs" elastic polymers (Dr Jane Clarke, Department of Chemistry) 2006-11-16 17:15: Imaging the Developmental Mechanics of the Heart (Professor Scott Fraser (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena)) 2006-11-17 09:00: Visualisation and Modelling of Plant Morphogenesis (Dr Jim Haseloff (Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge)) 2006-11-17 09:30: Watching and modelling limb development (Dr James Sharpe (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)) 2006-11-17 10:00: Dissecting a protein-protein interaction in living cells (Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, MRC Hutchison Laboratory) 2006-11-17 10:00: Algebraic Routing (Part 3) (Tim Griffin) 2006-11-17 11:00: Studying Single Molecules on living cells (Dr David Klenerman (Department of Chemistry, Cambridge)) 2006-11-17 11:30: Multidimensional fluorescence imaging in living cells (Dr Clemens Kaminski (Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge)) 2006-11-17 12:00: Reaction diffusion and collective behavior in the self-organisation of the mitotic spindle (Professor Eric Karsenti (EMBL, Heidelberg)) 2006-11-17 12:00: Evaluating Centering for Information Ordering using Corpora (Nikiforos Karamanis, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-17 13:15: The Self-Renewing Intestinal Epithelium and its Neoplasms: Cellular and Developmental Issues. (William Dove, McArdle Laboratories, Wisconsin, USA) 2006-11-17 14:15: Some Like it Hot: High Temperature Experiments in the ESEM (Dr Sarah Hainsworth, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester) 2006-11-17 14:15: Imaging embryonic morphogenesis (Dr Richard Adams (Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience)) 2006-11-17 14:45: Kinetics of Morphogen Gradient Formation (Dr Marcos Gonzalez Gaitan (Cell Biology, Geneva, Switzerland)) 2006-11-17 15:15: Evolving mechanisms of Pattern Generation: Segmentation in Animals (Professor Michael Akam (Laboratory for Development and Evolution, Department of Zoology, Cambridge)) 2006-11-17 16:15: Physical principles of sensory transduction (Dr Tom Duke, Department of Physics, Cambridge) 2006-11-17 16:45: The brain as a statistical machine (Professor Daniel Wolpert (Department of Engineering, Cambridge)) 2006-11-17 17:15: Closing Remarks (Professor Peter Littlewood (Department of Physics, Cambridge)) 2006-11-20 16:30: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE NON-LINEAR: CHARACTERISING AUDITORY CORTICAL RESPONSES TO COMPLEX SOUNDS (Dr. Jennifer Linden Ear Institute London) 2006-11-20 19:30: Children of Eve: Exon Sequencing; identifying variation in the human genome (Dr Alison 'Pod' Coffey, Sanger Centre, Hinxton Hall, Cambridgeshire) 2006-11-20 20:00: Francis Crick's place in history (Dr Matt Ridley) 2006-11-21 16:00: The chemical synapse goes electric: GPCRs, voltage and beyond (Profs. Itzchak & Hanna Parnas; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem) 2006-11-21 19:00: Preservation of Burgess-Shale-type fossils: implications for early animal evolution (Dr Nick Butterfield, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-21 19:30: Varieties of theory in modern America (Dr Joel Isaac, Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-22 14:00: Genome Informatics at the Sanger Institute (Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2006-11-23 13:00: Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) (Blaise Thomson, and Sinead Williamson) 2006-11-23 14:00: Interactions between Polymorphic Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors and Polymorphic MHC class I ligands (Peter Parham, Stanford University (USA)) 2006-11-23 16:00: Dynamics of gamma oscillations in the neocortex (Dr Hugh Robinson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-11-23 16:00: Functions, mechanisms and evolution of genomic imprinting (Dr Anne Ferguson-Smith, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2006-11-23 16:00: Advanced MCMC Methods (Iain Murray, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2006-11-23 19:00: The death of theorising? (Sir Patrick Bateson, Professor of Ethology, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-23 19:00: MIXING CHEMICALS AND CHARACTERS: The craft of writing science-based fiction (Malcolm Rose - prizewinning childrens science fiction author) 2006-11-24 12:00: Generation of Referring Expressions: Evaluating some standard algorithms (Ielka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen) 2006-11-24 14:15: Rheology of Viscoelastic Suspensions of Rigid Spheres (Prof Pier Luca Meffettone) 2006-11-27 16:30: GREY MATTER(S) (Prof. Bert Sakmann, Max-Planck Institute, Heidelberg Germany) 2006-11-27 20:00: Protein folding, misfolding and disease (Sir Alan Fersht, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-27 20:30: Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience (Professor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-28 15:00: Constraint Programming Techniques for Virtual Camera Control (Marc Christie, Nantes University) 2006-11-28 19:30: Student papers and Grand Discussion (Dr Aldo Faisal, Rodrigo de Sousa, Alex Shannon) 2006-11-29 10:00: Countable ordinals and fast-growing functions (Part 1) (Thomas Forster (DPMMS)) 2006-11-29 14:00: Machine Learning Methods for Uncovering cis-Regulatory Modules (Dr Mark Craven, University of Wisconsin) 2006-11-29 14:15: New Challenges in Describing Digital Music (Alan Blackwell and Alejandro Vinao, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2006-11-29 15:00: Learning Conditional Random Fields with Hierarchical Features: Application to the Game of Go (Scott Sanner, University of Toronto) 2006-11-30 10:00: Countable ordinals and fast-growing functions (Part 2) (Harold Simmons (Univ. of Manchester)) 2006-11-30 13:00: On Choosing Priors (Prof Zoubin Ghahramani, CUED) 2006-11-30 16:00: Domains of the electrogenic Na/bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1 that contribute to function, expression, and ion translocation (Prof. Mark Bevensee; Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham) 2006-12-01 09:00: Countable ordinals and fast-growing functions (Part 3) (Harold Simmons (Univ. of Manchester)) 2006-12-01 09:10: The Big Picture (Daniel Nocera, MIT) 2006-12-01 10:10: The Transition from Fossil Fuels (Nick Butler, B.P.) 2006-12-01 11:30: Carbon Sequestration (Jon Gibbins, Imperial College London) 2006-12-01 12:00: Generating appropriate referring expressions in news summaries (Advaith Siddharthan, University of Cambridge) 2006-12-01 13:30: Biofuels (Karl Carter, British Sugar) 2006-12-01 14:30: Tide, Wave, and Offshore Wind (Trevor Whittaker, Queen's University of Belfast) 2006-12-01 15:50: Nuclear fission and fusion (William J Nuttall, Judge Business School, Cambridge) 2006-12-01 16:40: Discussion (Chair: Ian Fells, University of Newcastle) 2006-12-04 16:30: Potassium channel diversity at the synaptic interface: Fast EPSCs and delayed rectification (Prof. Ian Forsythe University of Leicester) 2006-12-06 19:00: THE CHEMISTRY OF CHRISTMAS - an exciting practical demonstration lecture (Dr Colin Pulham & Prof Lesley Yellowlees (University of Edinburgh)) 2006-12-07 19:00: Evolution lecture : Darwin's Dilemma - The Burgess Shale and The Cambrian Explosion (Prof. Simon Conway Morris) 2006-12-12 13:00: Geometry of Sparse Representations (Mark Plumbley, Center for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London) 2006-12-12 15:00: Where’s my rocket? – Stochastic simulations of rocket flight paths (Simon Box, Microsoft Research) 2006-12-13 11:00: Statistical Applications of the Cross-Entropy Method (Nicolas Chopin) 2007-01-02 15:00: Computer Go Research in the University of Alberta GAMES Group (Martin Müller, University of Alberta) 2007-01-10 16:00: waiting for CR UK Cambridge Research Institute opening (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-01-15 16:30: BEFORE AND AFTER GRANDMOTHER CELLS (Professor Horace Barlow, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2007-01-16 14:30: Medical statistics: A little bit of history (Vern Farewell and Tony Johnson, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2007-01-17 14:00: Protein structure determination using NMR chemical shifts (Michele Vendruscolo) 2007-01-18 13:00: Collaborative Filtering (Will Youzhi Zou and David Knowles) 2007-01-18 16:00: Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits (Prof. Steve Wilson, Department of Anatomy & Developmental Biology, UCL) 2007-01-19 14:15: Bio-Inspired Growth of Crystals: Hydrogels and Self-Assembled Monolayers (Assistant Professor Lara Estroff) 2007-01-19 16:00: Jet noise from first principles (Neil Sandham, Southampton) 2007-01-19 17:30: MUSICAL IDENTITY (Christopher Hogwood) 2007-01-22 16:30: THE CEREBELLAR BASIS OF MOTOR LEARNING (Prof. Peter Thier, University of Tübingen, Germany) 2007-01-22 19:30: A Stitch in Time: The molecular Basis of DNA repair (Professor Steve Jackson, Wellcome Trust, CRUK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2007-01-22 20:00: Taking the stink out of instinct (Sir Patrick Bateson, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2007-01-23 19:00: Death , destruction and evolution of sea-shells (Dr Liz Harper, Dept.of Earth Sciences, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge) 2007-01-24 17:00: Global Earth Science and Sustainability (Professor Charles Kennel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego)) 2007-01-24 18:00: To Boldly Go. My Life in Physics. (Professor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College) 2007-01-25 14:00: Size and Shape in Drosophila wing morphogenesis (Antonio Garcia Bellido, CSIC Universidad Autonoma Madrid, Spain) 2007-01-25 16:00: E.solo and E.pluribus: two new experimental organisms (Prof. Dennis Bray, PDN) 2007-01-25 16:30: Modelling of primary processes in Drosophila phototransduction (Dr. Marten Postma, Hardie Lab, PDN) 2007-01-26 13:30: Active Learning and Experimental Design (Andreas Vlachos and Bobby Gramacy) 2007-01-26 14:15: Building from bottom up: Fabrication of novel materials using designer self-assembling peptides (Dr Shuguang Zhang Center for Biomedical Engineering NE47-379, 500 Technology Square, Center for Bits & Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA.) 2007-01-26 14:30: Biomechanics of the cytoskeleton: cell contractility and mechanosensitivity of cell adhesion (Dr Vikram Deshpande (CUED)) 2007-01-26 16:00: Liquid rope coiling (Neil Ribe, IPGP Paris) 2007-01-26 17:30: VISUALISING IDENTITY (Ludmilla Jordanova, King's College London) 2007-01-29 14:00: "Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data" (Dr. Andy Lynch, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge) 2007-01-29 20:00: Mission Possible: Defeating the silent killer (Professor Frances Balkwill, Institute of Cancer, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry) 2007-01-29 20:30: G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids (Professor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge) 2007-01-30 16:30: CHOICE AND CHANCE: LIMITATIONS AND EXTENSIONS OF THE LATER MODEL (Dr. Roger Carpenter, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2007-01-31 14:00: Identifying deletions and duplications from PCR data (Dr. Andy Lynch (Department of Oncology)) 2007-02-01 13:00: Non-parametric mixture models (David Knowles and Blaise Thomson) 2007-02-01 16:00: Robot Localisation and Mapping (Dr Paul M Newman, Oxford University) 2007-02-01 16:30: Selectivity in the expression of pre- and post-synaptic mechanisms in cortical circuits (Prof. Alex Thomson, School of Pharmacy, London) 2007-02-02 13:15: Genome-wide approaches to the identification and characterization of JAK/STAT pathways regulators in Drosophila and Human systems. (Martin Zeidler, University of Sheffield.) 2007-02-02 14:15: Using thermal probes for analysis and characterisation of materials on a micro and nano scale (Professor Mike Reading, School of Chemical Sciences and Pharmacy, University of East Anglia, Norwich) 2007-02-02 16:00: Le Mathematicien dans le pissoir, and other splashy stories (Sam Howison, Oxford) 2007-02-02 17:30: IDENTITY OF MEANING (Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-05 16:30: THE HUNGRY BRAIN: ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND NEURAL FUNCTION (Professor Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology) 2007-02-05 19:30: Avian 'Flu - The origin of SARS and the impact of avian influenza H5N1 upon mammals and wild birds (Dr Diana Bell, School of Biological Sciences, University of east Anglia, Norwich) 2007-02-07 14:00: Identifying novel therapies for breast cancer using Independent Component Analysis (Andrew E Teschendorff (Cancer Research Institute, University of Cambridge)) 2007-02-07 18:00: The promise of energy biosciences (Dr Steven Koonin (Chief Scientist, BP)) 2007-02-07 18:00: Managing China's Rise (Sir Christopher Hum, KCMG, Master of Gonville and Caius College) 2007-02-08 13:00: Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Dirichlet Diffusion Trees (Frederik Eaton and Sinead Williamson) 2007-02-08 14:00: Exploring the causes of regulatory variation in humans (Manolis Dermitzakis, Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK)) 2007-02-09 13:15: The transcription factor SRF directs developmental and adult brain plasticity. (Alfred Nordheim, University of Tuebingen.) 2007-02-09 14:15: DSM Innovation: Functional Coatings and Biomedical Materials (Dr Jens Thies) 2007-02-09 15:00: Margin- and Evidence-Based Approaches for EEG Signal Classification (N. Jeremy Hill, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics) 2007-02-09 16:00: Bouncing droplets: at a macroscopic scale, a wave/particle duality of a kind (Yves Couder, ENS, Paris) 2007-02-09 17:30: MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY (Marcus du Sautoy, Oxford University) 2007-02-12 14:00: New Functions for Glial Cells: From Soft Guideposts for Neuronal Migration to Living Light Guides in the Retina (Kristian Franze from the University of Leipzig) 2007-02-12 20:00: From antibody inventions to start-up companies and blockbuster therapeutics (Sir Greg Winter, MRC-LMB) 2007-02-12 20:30: Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics? (Professor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-14 14:00: Monkeys on Trees: A Bayesian Approach to Inferring Primate Divergence Times (Richard Wilkinson, Centre for Mathematical Sciences) 2007-02-15 13:00: Neural Networks (Pedro Ortega and Will Youzhi Zou) 2007-02-15 16:00: Epithelial Physiology: facts, fantasies and fun (Prof. Richard Boyd, University of Oxford) 2007-02-16 13:15: Genetic control of brain development in Drosophila. (Frank Hirth, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, KCL) 2007-02-16 14:15: How filament assembly dynamics can power the crawling motion of amoeboid cells (Dr Murray Stewart, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2007-02-16 16:00: Do mechanical stresses and the growth hormone auxin cooperate in creating phyllotactic patterns? (Alan Newell, Tucson) 2007-02-16 17:30: IDENTITY AND THE LAW (Lionel Bently, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-17 13:30: EarthTalk (Dr Alex Piotrovski, Hilary Ketchum, Dr John Hillier) 2007-02-19 16:30: THE FUNCTIONAL ORGANISATION OF THE BASAL GANGLIA (Prof. Paul Bolam, University of Oxford) 2007-02-19 19:30: The Calving of Larson-B and other phenomena: Climate Change in the Antarctic (Professor David Vaughan, Deputy Director, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge) 2007-02-19 20:00: Stem cell biology: hype and reality (Professor Austin Smith, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-20 14:30: Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models in structured populations based on final outcome data (Philip O'Neill, University of Nottingham) 2007-02-20 19:00: Evolution in the giant marine reptiles of the Mesozoic (Dr Leslie Noe, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-21 14:00: Modelling Epidemics (Pietro Lio, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-21 18:00: When the Rivers Run Dry (Fred Pearce, New Scientist) 2007-02-21 18:00: Web 2.0 (Dr Philip Evans, senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group. Boston, USA) 2007-02-22 13:00: Gaussian Particle Implementations of Probability Hypothesis Density Filters (Daniel Clark) 2007-02-22 13:00: Universal Artificial Intelligence, and Probability Monads (Pedro Ortega and Frederik Eaton) 2007-02-22 14:00: The regulatory origin of repeated evolution of Drosophila pigmentation patterns (Nicolas Gompel, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-02-22 16:00: Plasticity of neuron to astrocyte signalling in the cerebellum (Dr. Tom Bellamy, Babraham Institute) 2007-02-22 16:00: An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian Methods (Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-23 13:15: Liver formation in zebrafish - Wnt and BMP signalling in organ specification. (Elke Ober, NIMR, Mill Hill) 2007-02-23 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Professor David Klug) 2007-02-23 16:00: On the nature of friction in a stratified rotating fluid (Kurt Polzin, Woods Hole) 2007-02-23 17:30: IDENTITY AND THE MIND (Raymond Tallis, Manchester University) 2007-02-26 11:00: Dinosaurs from Mongolia (Dr Altangerel Perle, National University of Mongolia, Ulaan Bataar) 2007-02-26 16:30: WHY BASSO IS MACHO: FROM COCHLEA TO CORTEX, SIZE MATTERS IN HEARING (Professor Roy Patterson, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2007-02-26 20:30: Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them (Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2007-02-27 10:00: Mechanizing Theories in Twelf: A Tutorial (Part 1) (Susmit Sarkar) 2007-02-28 14:00: The FlyMine/ InterMine Project (Gos Micklem, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute) 2007-02-28 18:00: Can we quantify sustainability ? (Professor Richard Darton, Oxford University) 2007-03-01 10:00: Mechanizing Theories in Twelf: A Tutorial (Part 2) (Susmit Sarkar) 2007-03-01 12:00: Can systems biology be useful, an ascidian perspective (Patrick Lemaire, University of Marseille (F)) 2007-03-01 13:00: Some NIPS papers (Blaise, Katherine, and Zoubin) 2007-03-01 16:00: Sweet dreams: new pathways of glucose-sensing in the brain (Dr. Denis Burdakov, Department of Pharmacology) 2007-03-01 16:00: Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes (Dr Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2007-03-02 13:15: Conserved mechanisms regulating lineage commitment during vertebrate gastrulation. (Josh Brickman, Institute for Stem Cell Research, Edinburgh.) 2007-03-02 14:15: Studying single molecule dynamic with local probe techniques (Professor Heinrich Hoerber, HH Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK) 2007-03-02 16:00: Twist & Shout: Maximal Enstrophy Production in the 3D Navier-Stokes Equations (Charlie Doering, Michigan) 2007-03-02 17:30: IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF (Philippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado) 2007-03-05 10:00: Mechanizing Theories in Twelf: A Tutorial (Part 3) (Susmit Sarkar) 2007-03-05 16:15: Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping (Professor William Phillips) 2007-03-05 16:30: HUMAN PERCEPTION OF CHANGES IN NATURAL VISUAL SCENES, AND A VISUAL-CORTEX BASED MODEL OF VISUAL DISCRIMINATIONS (Dr. David Tolhurst, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2007-03-05 19:30: The Eternal Triangle: Science, Propaganda and Disease Control; the facts behind the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic (Dr Mike Thrusfield, Easter Bush Veterinary Centre, University of Edinburgh) 2007-03-06 13:00: Audio signal indexing : Application to drum signal separation and transcription (Gaël RICHARD, ENST (Télécom Paris)) 2007-03-06 19:30: Incorporating Life into Philosophy: Dilthey, Bergson and Heidegger (Dr Melissa Lane, Senior Lecturer in History) 2007-03-07 14:00: Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology (Professor Simon Tavare and Dr. Stephen Eglen) 2007-03-07 16:15: Optics with laser-like atom waves (Professor William Phillips) 2007-03-07 18:00: One Planet Living (Pooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional)) 2007-03-07 18:00: The Visual and the Visceral: Pornography and Sanctity, Modern and Medieval (Dr William Burgwinkle, Reader in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Fellow of King's College) 2007-03-08 13:00: Sustainability Informatics, present situation, challenges, vision (Charlie Kennel, Scripps Institute, San Diego) 2007-03-08 13:00: An Introduction to Generalized Ensemble MCMC for Machine Learning (Ulrich Paquet) 2007-03-08 16:00: Imaging neurulation in the zebrafish embryo (Dr. Richard Adams, PDN) 2007-03-08 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Sarah Bray, PDN) 2007-03-08 19:30: Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life? (Dr David Summers, Head of Genetics Department) 2007-03-09 13:15: The homeobox gene Hex has essential roles during liver development. (Clifford Bogue, Yale University/ Gurdon Institute.) 2007-03-09 14:15: Emulsion stabilized by proteins – surfactant-covered drops or capsules? (Dr Peter Fischer, Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland) 2007-03-09 16:00: Equation-free modeling and computation for complex/multiscale systems (Yannis Kevrekidis, Princeton) 2007-03-09 16:15: A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physics (Professor William Phillips) 2007-03-09 17:00: Self-discipline as a way of life: Why would anyone eat only fruits and vegatables? (Professor Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy) 2007-03-09 17:30: SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS (Peter Crane, University of Chicago) 2007-03-12 20:30: Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures' (Professor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2007-03-13 15:00: Reverse Engineering the Human Visual System with Networks of Spiking Neurons (Simon Thorpe, Brain and Cognition Research Centre, Toulouse France) 2007-03-13 17:00: What is Music? What is Life? and other unanswerable questions (Dr Nikolaus Bacht, Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music) 2007-03-13 19:00: From 1822 Until Today - Technology of Photography (Tony Kaye (ex Kodak UK)) 2007-03-14 14:00: Automated image analysis for high-throughput cell-based microscopy assays with R and Bioconductor ( Dr. Oleg Sklyar, European Bioinformatics Institute-EMBL) 2007-03-14 15:30: A complete set of rotationally and translationally invariant features based on a generalization of the bispectrum to non-commutative groups (Imre Risi Kondor, Columbia University) 2007-03-14 17:00: Student Papers and Grand Discussion (Gaurav Jaggi, Colin Higgins, Kevin Channon - Discussion) 2007-03-14 18:00: A new sustainable way of life - the sine qua non of human development ? CANCELLED (Clare Short MP (CANCELLED)) 2007-03-14 19:30: The Importance of Being Peripheral (Professor John Barrow) 2007-03-15 13:00: Complex Wavelets: What are they and what can they do? (Nick Kingsbury) 2007-03-15 13:00: Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classification (Ryota Tomioka (University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST)) 2007-03-15 14:00: The antigenic and genetic evolution of influenza viruses (Derek Smith, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-03-15 16:00: Bayesian Ranking (Ralf Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2007-03-15 19:30: Science in the Real World and Stem Cell Science (Professor Colin Blakemore and Professor Austin Smith) 2007-03-16 10:00: Motion Tracking (Fabian Wauthier, University of Edinburgh) 2007-03-16 14:15: Nano-Structuring Surfaces by Templated Assembly (Professor Alain Jonas Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) 2007-03-16 14:30: Materials Information: from testing machines to drug-eluting stents (Prof David Cebon (CUED) / Prof Mike Ashby (EDC)) 2007-03-16 16:00: Transition to turbulence in accretion disks and rotating shear flows (Francois Rincon, DAMTP) 2007-03-16 19:30: The Silent Aircraft Initiative (Dr Tom Hynes) 2007-03-17 17:00: The Truth About Food (Panel of Speakers) 2007-03-17 19:00: Science and Religion (Panel of Speakers) 2007-03-18 19:45: Cabaret: Science of Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll (Dr Harry Witchel, Dr Graeme Jones and Dr Mark Lewney) 2007-03-19 16:30: “CELLULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING HIPPOCAMPAL GAMMA-FREQUENCY ("40 HZ") NETWORK OSCILLATIONS” (Dr. Ole Paulsen University of Oxford) 2007-03-19 19:00: It's a Gas! (Dr Peter Wothers) 2007-03-19 19:30: Who Do You Think You Are? (Dr Wolf Reik) 2007-03-22 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Simon Godsill) 2007-03-22 13:00: Topics in Convex Optimisation (Ryota Tomioka, University of Tokyo) 2007-03-22 19:30: The Scale of Science Panel Discussion (Panel of Speakers) 2007-03-23 19:30: The 27km machine and the building blocks of the Universe (Dr Brian Cox) 2007-03-27 14:30: Models for baseline and treatment effects in meta-analysis (Tony Ades, University of Bristol) 2007-03-29 13:00: Reduced kernel rules for classification (Frederic Desobry, Sigproc. Lab. CUED) 2007-03-29 13:00: GP-LVMs (Joaquin Quiñonero Candela) 2007-03-29 15:00: Estimating entropy rates with confidence intervals (Matt Kennel, UC San Diego) 2007-04-03 13:00: Analysis of Channel Coding for Redundant Sources (Joseph Boutros, ENST Paris) 2007-04-10 15:00: A Bayesian model that links microarray mRNA measurements to mass spectrometry protein measurements (Anitha Kannan, Microsoft Research, Cambridge) 2007-04-12 13:00: Hyperanalytic Denoising (Sofia Olhede, Dept. of Mathematics, Imperial College London) 2007-04-12 13:00: Change Point Problems in Linear Dynamical Systems (Onno Zoeter, Microsoft) 2007-04-12 16:30: Two Days in the Life of the DNS Anycast Root Servers (Nevil Brownlee, University of Auckland / CAIDA) 2007-04-16 14:00: Challenges in measuring wireless networks (Tristan Henderson, University of St. Andrews) 2007-04-17 14:30: Joint modelling of competing risks of drug withdrawal and quality of life in epilepsy trials. (Paula Williamson, Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation, University of Liverpool) 2007-04-19 13:00: Function Approximation in MDPs (Blaise Thomson, CUED) 2007-04-23 16:30: “CIRCADIAN RHYTHM AND SLEEP DISRUPTION IN HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE: DOES IT PLAY A ROLE IN NEUROLOGICAL DECLINE?” (Dr. Jenny Morton, Department of Pharmacology) 2007-04-25 18:00: Why sustainable development might be bad for the environment (Professor Susan Owens, Cambridge University) 2007-04-26 13:00: Gaussian Approximations for Binary Gaussian Process Classification, and Hidden Topic Markov Models (Hannes Nickisch, Katherine Heller) 2007-04-26 14:00: Growth regulation of ribosome biogenesis in yeast: what's inside the black box? (David Shore, Department of Molecular Biology and NCCR Program "Frontiers in Genetics", University of Geneva) 2007-04-26 15:30: Future innovations in virtualization technology (Scott Devine, VMware) 2007-04-26 16:00: Experience Dependent Mechanisms of Visual System Development (Prof. Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor) 2007-04-26 16:30: Optimal Wireless LAN Channel Selection Without Communication (Douglas Leith, Hamilton Institute) 2007-04-27 14:15: Polymer Physics and DNA Topology (Professor Giovanni Dietler, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Vivante, Institut de Physique de la Matiere Complexe , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) 2007-04-27 16:00: 2D symmetry models for 3D Euler (Bob Kerr, Warwick) 2007-04-30 16:30: “A HOLISTIC MODEL OF BINAURAL HEARING IN MAMMALS” (Professor David McAlpine Ear Institute London) 2007-04-30 19:30: DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System (Professor Robin Franklin. Neurosciences Laboratory (Department of Veterinary medicine) and the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge) 2007-05-02 18:00: Sustainable Development (Professor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government)) 2007-05-03 13:00: Optimal Learning (Carl Rasmussen) 2007-05-03 16:00: An interaction between the Trk and EphA tyrosine kinase families controls retinotectal topography (Dr. Uwe Drescher, King's College London) 2007-05-03 16:30: Research at the NUS Interactive Multimedia Lab (Stefan Winkler, National University of Singapore) 2007-05-03 19:30: A scientific approach to the nature of ethics (Professor Robert Hinde, Emeritus Professor of Zoology) 2007-05-04 12:00: Term Mining in Biomedicine (Sophia Ananiadou - University of Manchester) 2007-05-04 14:15: Two Dimensional Coherent Infra-Red Spectroscopy for the measurement of vibration-vibration coupling, and its application to the study of protein composition, dynamics, structure and function (Prof David Klug, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London) 2007-05-04 16:00: Migration of a solid and arbitrarily-shaped particle in a Brinkman medium (Antoine Sellier, Ecole Polytechnique & DAMTP) 2007-05-07 16:30: “PHEROMONAL SIGNALLING IN MICE” (Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology) 2007-05-07 17:00: Intellectuals, oil, and violence (Dr Alexander Etkind, Lecturer of Slavonic and Russian Studies) 2007-05-08 17:00: Acoustical Spacetime Geometry and Shock Formation (Professor Demetrios Christodoulou, ETH-Zurich) 2007-05-09 13:00: Distinct tensile and adhesive forces determine germ layer organization during gastrulation (Dr Carl Philipp Heisenberg, Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden Germany) 2007-05-10 13:00: Modeling Natural Sounds with Modulation Cascade Processes (Richard Turner, Gatsby Neuroscience Unit, UCL) 2007-05-10 14:00: Glial cell differentiation and function in Drosophila (Christian Klämbt, Institut für Neurobiologie, Badestr. 9, D-48149 Münster, Germany) 2007-05-10 16:30: Wide-area migration of Virtual Machines including local persistent state (Evangelos Kotsovinos, T-Labs) 2007-05-11 11:00: Affinity Propagation and Hierarchical Beta Processes (Arik Azran and Frederik Eaton) 2007-05-11 14:15: Physical description of mitotic spindle orientation during cell division (Dr Andrea Cecilia Jimenez Dalmaroni, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems , Dresden, Germany) 2007-05-11 14:30: Talks by second year PhD students (Various) 2007-05-14 16:30: "SHIFTING VIEWS OF FRONTO-STRIATAL FUNCTION: NEUROMODULATORY MECHANISMS" (Professor Trevor Robbins, Deptartment of Experimental Psychology) 2007-05-14 19:30: Mending Broken Hearts: replacing damaged cardiac muscle; the MAGIC programme (Mr Stephen Large FRCS, Papworth Hospital, Cambridgeshire) 2007-05-15 17:00: Plato and Aristotle on why an intellectual life is even better than a moral one (Professor David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy) 2007-05-16 17:00: Grand Discussion (Cristina Devecchi, Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn) 2007-05-17 13:00: System Conditioning vs Explicit Bayes Inference, and Collaborative LDA (Pedro Ortega and Sinead Williamson) 2007-05-17 14:00: Getting more from your markers; statistical cleaning of genetic data (Jérôme Goudet, Department of Ecology & Evolution, LAUSANNE, Switzerland) 2007-05-17 16:00: Prenatal Origins of Heart Disease: The Role of Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress (Dr. Dino Giussani, PDN) 2007-05-17 16:30: The vital role of kissing in reproduction (Dr. Bill Colledge, PDN) 2007-05-17 16:30: Opportunistic Mobile Sensor Data Collection with SCAR (Cecilia Mascolo, UCL) 2007-05-17 19:00: BACK TO THE FUTURE - TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT REVISITED (Prof. Peter Lillford, CBE, University of York) 2007-05-18 14:15: A Molecular Mechanism for Toughening and Strengthening Waterborne Nanocomposites (Dr Joe Keddie, School of Electronics and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey) 2007-05-18 16:00: Bodies interacting with and through fluids (MIke Shelley, Courant Institute) 2007-05-21 14:00: Accelerating Discovery: A Grand Challenge for HCI (Professor Ben Shneiderman) 2007-05-22 14:30: Representing uncertainty in numerical climate models (Nadja Leith, UCL) 2007-05-23 09:30: Modelling the hidden world of protein activities (Lorenz Wernisch, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2007-05-23 10:15: Epidemics on Networks (Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP) 2007-05-23 11:30: Oscillators and sychronisation in circadian rhythms (Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2007-05-23 12:15: Lies, damn lies and metabolomics - statistical approaches for processing metabolomic data. (Jules Griffin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2007-05-23 14:00: Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype (Andrew Fraser (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)) 2007-05-23 14:45: Genome regulation: a sequence-gazer's view. (Thomas Down, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2007-05-23 16:00: The biology of common disease from a genome-wide perspective: susceptibility genes as nodes for pathways and systems (John Todd, The Cambridge Institute of Medical Research (CIMR)) 2007-05-23 16:45: A human protein atlas (Anja Persson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) 2007-05-24 13:00: What can Gaussian Processes do for Reinforcement Learning? (Marc Deisenroth, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany) 2007-05-24 14:15: Fractional calculus approach for viscoelasticity at the sol-gel transition: application to sol-gel materials and biogels (Alain Ponton, Matière et Systèmes Complexes, UMR 7057 CNRS & Université Denis Diderot-Paris 7, Paris, France) 2007-05-24 16:00: Central circuits that subserve pain of different behavioural significance and their descending control (Dr. Bridget Lumb, University of Bristol) 2007-05-25 16:00: Nano-hydrodynamics : investigating boundary flows with surface forces experiments (Elisabeth Charlaix, Lyon) 2007-05-28 19:30: www.Antibodies_Direct.com The story of Abcam; selling antibodies on-line (Dr Jonathan Milner. Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge) 2007-05-30 11:00: Uncovering Buried Biological Interfaces (Dr Simon Titmuss, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford) 2007-05-31 11:00: Cell Divisions During Epithelial Morphogenesis (Dr Sebastien Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Departement de Physique) 2007-05-31 13:00: Overlapping Clusters and 4th-year Projects (Zoubin Ghahramani and Katherine Heller) 2007-05-31 16:00: Arrhythmogenic mechanisms in the isolated perfused hypokalemic murine heart (Prof. Chris Huang, PDN) 2007-05-31 16:30: Platelet Store-operated Ca2+ entry: The NCX trips up the TRP (Dr. Stewart Sage, PDN) 2007-06-01 16:00: Absolute/convective instability in fuel injection (Matthew Juniper, CUED) 2007-06-02 19:30: "Actually you were' and I can prove it" (Mr Skip Palenik, President, Microtrace, Illinois, USA) 2007-06-05 11:00: Soft Active Matter : From Polymer Physics To The Cell Cytoskeleton (Dr Tanniemola Liverpool, Leeds University) 2007-06-05 14:30: Inference for binary Markov random fields without tears (or MCMC). (Nial Friel, University of Glasgow) 2007-06-05 15:00: identity variables for face recognition: from distance based methods to probabilistic inference (Simon Prince, University College London) 2007-06-06 11:00: Single Molecule Biology: Coming of Age (Dr Liming Ying, Biological Nanoscience, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London) 2007-06-07 16:00: Axon and dendrite geography predict the specificity of synaptic connections in a functioning spinal cord network (Prof. Alan Roberts, University of Bristol) 2007-06-08 14:15: Magneto-optic tweezers and their application in soft mater research ( Assistant Professor Igor Poberaj, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2007-06-08 15:30: Methods for the Periodically Correlated Random Processes: Estimation, Decomposition, Modelling (Ihor Isayev, Karpenko Physico-mechanical Institute of NAS of Ukraine) 2007-06-08 16:00: Mixing and the spectrum of the advection-diffusion operator (Peter Haynes, DAMTP) 2007-06-09 19:30: Take the Eurostar to Stratford... (Dr Mike Glover, Director, Arup Engineering, London, project manager of the High-Speed link) 2007-06-11 16:30: “SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING SIGNAL PROCESSING WITHIN THE INPUT LAYER OF THE CEREBELLAR CORTEX” (Professor Angus Silver, University College London) 2007-06-11 19:30: Nuclear Fusion as a Global Energy Source? Work at UKAEA Culham Laboratory and elsewhere to harness fusion energy (Professor Chris Llewellyn-Smith FRS. Director, UKAEA Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Oxford) 2007-06-12 14:00: Soft-Matter and Biological Physics at the Nanometre Scale (Dr Ulrich Keyser, Universitat Leipzig) 2007-06-12 15:00: From Flat Fluidics for Physiological Applications to Phase Transitions in Biological Membranes (Dr Matthias Schneider, University of Ausburg) 2007-06-13 09:00: Stretching, Sorting and Twisting in Microfludics (Dr Jonas Tegenfeldt, Lund University, Sweden) 2007-06-14 13:00: Infinite ICA and Information Retrieval (Will Youzhi Zou and David Knowles) 2007-06-14 14:30: Understanding Cell Mechanics: From Axonal Instabilities To Oscillating Fibroblasts (Dr Pramod A Pullarkat, Universitat Bayreuth) 2007-06-14 16:00: Pluripotency and the early embryo: overriding development for production of embryonic stem cells (Dr. Jenny Nichols, PDN/Stem Cell Institute) 2007-06-15 15:00: Semi-supervised Training of a Statistical Parser from Unlabeled Partially-bracketed Data (John Carroll - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex) 2007-06-15 16:00: Dynamic Depletion of Vortex Stretching and Nonlinear Stability of 3D Incompressible Flows (Tom Hou, Caltech) 2007-06-18 11:30: Annotation of Chemical Named Entities (Peter Corbett - University of Cambridge) 2007-06-18 11:30: Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognition (Colin Batchelor - Royal Society of Chemistry) 2007-06-18 16:30: “PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF HUMAN SENSORIMOTOR CONTROL” (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering) 2007-06-19 10:00: Measuring and predicting complexity (Dr. Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-06-19 10:50: The physics of protein folding (Dr. Patricia Faisca, Universadade Nova de Lisboa) 2007-06-19 11:40: Simulations of phase transitions: from colloids to proteins (Dr. Stefan Auer, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2007-06-19 13:30: Quadruple stranded DNA: cancer, gene regulation and evolution (Dr. Julian Huppert, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2007-06-19 14:20: Insight into ion channel biophysics via computer simulations (Dr. Carmen Domene, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford) 2007-06-19 15:10: DNA-binding computation at large and small scales (Dr. Marco Consentino-Lagomarsino, Institut Curie, Paris) 2007-06-20 14:00: Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics (Diarmuid O'Seaghdha - University of Cambridge) 2007-06-21 13:00: Statistical Models for Partial Membership (Katherine Heller) 2007-06-21 16:30: San Fermin: Aggregating Large Data Sets using Dynamic Binomial Trees (Justin Cappos, University of Arizona) 2007-06-21 17:15: Report from Apple WWDC07 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-06-21 17:15: Linux on the Playstation3 (David Fox, JPY Ltd.) 2007-06-26 10:15: The effect of substrate mechanics on cell behaviour (Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory) 2007-06-26 15:00: Generative models for audio and music processing (Taylan Cemgil, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2007-06-28 13:00: Subspace-based Fundamental Frequency Estimation (Mads Græsbøll Christensen, Aalborg University, Denmark) 2007-06-28 15:30: Sensible priors from finite linear models (Ed Snelson and Joaquin Candela) 2007-06-28 16:30: What does atomic mean? (Tim Harris, Microsoft Research) 2007-06-29 14:00: Toward Dependency-Agnostic Online Upgrades in Distributed Systems (Tudor Dumitras, Carnegie Mellon University) 2007-07-02 11:00: The ILIAD Project: Language Technology Meets Linux Troubleshooting (Timothy Baldwin - University of Melbourne.) 2007-07-05 13:00: Kingman's coalescent, non-parametric Bayesian agglomerative clustering, and ICML 2007 (Yee Whye Teh, Zoubin Ghahramani) 2007-07-06 16:30: Computational genomics of structural RNAs (Sean Eddy, HHMI Janelia Farm Research Campus) 2007-07-09 14:30: The Reporting of Associations in Genome-Wide Studies (Jon Wakefield, University of Washington) 2007-07-10 14:30: Identifying true positive associations in genome-wide association studies (Jenny Barrett, University of Leeds) 2007-07-11 11:00: Efficient stochastic optimal control for navigation and motor planning (Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) 2007-07-12 11:30: Graphical Data and Data Graphics in R (Paul Murrell, University of Auckland) 2007-07-12 14:15: Intelligent Systems for Characters, Creatures and Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Steve DiPaola, Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University) 2007-07-13 09:30: Individual variation identifies evolutionary patterns between species (Paul Flicek, European Bioinformatics Institute) 2007-07-13 09:30: Worldwide distribution of human genetic diversity (Francois Balloux, Department of Genetics) 2007-07-13 09:30: Worldwide distribution of human phenotypic diversity (Andrea Manica, Department of Zoology) 2007-07-13 09:30: The systems biology of influenza (Derek Smith, Department of Zoology) 2007-07-13 09:30: Disease dynamics at different scales (Julia Gog, Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics) 2007-07-13 09:30: Evolving mechanisms of pattern formation: Segmentation in arthropods (Michael Akam, Department of Zoology) 2007-07-13 09:30: Developmental and evolutionary dynamics of the gap gene system. (Johannes Jaeger, Department of Zoology) 2007-07-13 09:30: Disease in a changing landscape (Chris Gilligan, Department of Plant Sciences) 2007-07-13 09:30: A systems approach to understand the condition dependency of genetic interactions (Balázs Papp, University of Manchester & BRC Szeged) 2007-07-13 09:30: Genomic approaches to speciation and fitness: old wines in new bottles (Steve Oliver, University of Manchester & Department of Biochemistry) 2007-07-20 16:00: Dispersive Shock Waves (Mark Ablowitz, University of Colorado) 2007-07-26 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-07-27 14:00: Bootstrapping cluster analysis: assessing the reliability of conclusions (Jules Griffin ( Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2007-07-28 15:00: MRAO at 50: Observing the Origin and Evolution of the Universe from Cambridge (Professor Malcolm Longair) 2007-08-02 16:30: Next Generation Dynamic Spectrum Networks (Heather Zheng, Computer Science Dept, University of California, Santa Barbara) 2007-08-09 13:00: DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION and FEATURE SELECTION IN HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE CLASSIFICATION (Joel Trussell, North Carolina State University) 2007-08-14 15:00: Bayesian network structure learning from uncertain interventions (Kevin Murphy, University of British Columbia) 2007-08-21 13:00: Filtering and Smoothing in Non-linear Dynamical Systems using Quadrature Expectation Propagation (EP) (Onno Zoeter, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2007-08-23 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-08-31 14:00: Centering, scaling, and transformations: improving the biological information content of metabolomics data (Kian Kai Cheng (Biochemsitry Department, Uni of Cambridge)) 2007-09-06 19:00: BITING BACK AT BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTS (Dr James Logan, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden) 2007-09-11 15:00: Physics-Based Human Motion Models for Animation and Tracking (Aaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto) 2007-09-12 13:00: Alternative splicing in the human transcriptome: Functional and structural influence on proteins (Dr. Kei Yura, Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Kyoto, Japan) 2007-09-12 17:00: HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG? (Professor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA) 2007-09-13 13:00: Covariate Shift Adaptation: Supervised Learning When Training and Test Inputs Have Different Distributions (Masashi Sugiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technlogy)) 2007-09-14 14:00: Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component Analysis (Hao Shen, National ICT Australia and Australian National University, Canberra) 2007-09-19 14:00: Graph Kernels for Data Mining (Karsten Borgwardt, Machine Learning Group @ CUED) 2007-09-20 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-09-21 09:15: Joint EBI/ Cambridge University Research Symposium (Multiple speakers from the EBI and across Cambridge University) 2007-09-25 14:30: Efficient Bayesian Segmentation of DNA data (Paul Fearnhead, University of Lancaster) 2007-09-28 14:00: Assessing the probability that a positive report is false: an approach for molecular epidemiology studies. (Gregor McCombie (Biochemistry Department, Cambridge University)) 2007-09-28 19:00: DO ANIMALS HAVE MEMORIES OF TOMORROW? (Prof. Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-02 17:00: Impact of genetic factors on extinction risk and implications for conservation management in New Zealand. (Ian Jamieson, University of Otago, NZ) 2007-10-03 14:00: Optimal Spreading Sequences for Chaos-Based Communication Systems; Using CSK as a Case Study (Theodore Papamarkou, University of Warwick) 2007-10-03 15:00: Toxicogenomics - helping reshape drug discovery (?) (Quin Wills (Simugen Ltd.)) 2007-10-03 15:00: Global Warming (Professor Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and Author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist’, ‘How to Spend $50B to Make the World a Better Place’, and ‘Cool It’) 2007-10-03 19:00: Book Launch of 'Cool it' - bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg's latest release (Prof Bjorn Lomborg) 2007-10-04 16:00: Monoamines and mechanosensory behaviour in C. elegans (Dr William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2007-10-05 14:00: Study on the Constitutive Model of Cardiac Muscle and Numerical Heart (Professor Zhuo Zhuang, Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University) 2007-10-05 16:00: Mechanics of skin and fat (Norman Fleck, CUED, Cambridge) 2007-10-11 14:00: Autonomous Agents under Operational Closure (Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge)) 2007-10-11 16:00: The evolution of life history strategies: individuals, populations, species (Oliver Krueger, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-11 16:00: Where is the plasticity in cerebellum-dependent forms of learning? (Prof. Christopher H. Yeo, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL) 2007-10-11 16:30: Graph Edge Colouring Problems Arising from Optical Network Design (Gordon Wilfong: Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Center - Bell Labs) 2007-10-11 19:00: BEAGLE 2 AND BEYOND – THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION (Prof Colin Pillinger FRS, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University) 2007-10-12 12:00: Random Walks on the Click Graph (Martin Szummer, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2007-10-12 13:15: Getting to the bottom of the Drosophila posterior (Daniel St. Johnston - University of Cambridge, The Gurdon Institute) 2007-10-12 16:00: Mixing in confined flows (Jean-Pierre Hulin, FAST, Paris) 2007-10-12 17:30: Strangers and Brothers: The Divisions of the British Past (Professor Linda Colley, Princeton University) 2007-10-15 10:00: Proving program termination (Part 1) (Byron Cook, Microsoft Research, Cambridge) 2007-10-15 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies (Professor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy) 2007-10-16 14:30: Online inference and prediction for infectious diseases: a case study in Avian Influenza (Gareth Roberts, University of Warwick) 2007-10-17 14:00: Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational Learning (Ricardo Silva (Statistical Laboratory)) 2007-10-17 15:00: Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics (Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)) 2007-10-18 14:00: Statistical mechanics of large optimisation problems (Prof. Giorgio Parisi, Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza') 2007-10-18 16:00: Jak/Stat regulates dpp transcription in support cells to maintain Drosophila ovarian niche (Acaimo Gonzalez-Reyes, Universidad de Sevilla) 2007-10-18 16:00: Group Theory and Machine Learning (Imre Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2007-10-18 16:00: Understanding actions. (Dr James Kilner, The Institute of Neurology, UCL) 2007-10-18 16:30: A Machine Learning Approach for Efficient Traffic Classification (Wei Li: University of Cambridge) 2007-10-18 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-10-19 10:00: Proving program termination (Part 2) (Byron Cook, Microsoft Research, Cambridge) 2007-10-19 12:00: Analysing biomedical text with the Stanford dependency grammar (Andrew Clegg, Birkbeck, University of London) 2007-10-19 13:15: Semaphorins, glia and keeping motor neurons in position (Matthieu Vermeren - University of Cambridge, Dept. Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2007-10-19 14:00: From Bubbles to Cells (Dr Alexandre Kabla, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-19 16:00: Two-dimensional turbulence on a bounded domain – the role of angular momentum (GertJan van Heijst, Eindhoven) 2007-10-22 10:00: Proving program termination (Part 3) (Byron Cook, Microsoft Research, Cambridge) 2007-10-22 16:00: Medicine, Neuroscience, Ethics and Society (Professor Judith Illes and Professor Lord Robert Winston) 2007-10-22 19:30: The invention of the High Power Microscope (Professor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR) 2007-10-22 20:00: The Mystery of Intracellular Timers in Animal Development (Professor Martin Raff, Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, UCL) 2007-10-23 09:30: Tanner Lecture: The Respondents (Prof. Roger Brownsword, Dr. John Cornwell, Prof. Peter Lipton, Dr. Adrian Owen) 2007-10-24 15:00: Some questions that can be answered by molecular dynamics (Daniel Barsky (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)) 2007-10-25 14:00: What is the deviance information criterion? (Martyn Plummer, International Agency for Research on Cancer) 2007-10-25 14:00: Sparse Bayesian Linear Models (Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge), Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla) 2007-10-25 14:30: Mechanism of epidermal maintenance of mice and men (Ben Simons - Cavendish Laboratory, TCM, Cambridge) 2007-10-25 16:00: The race to prevent the extinction of South Asian vultures (Rhys Green, University of Cambridge) 2007-10-25 16:00: Spectral Clustering (Arik Azran, Machine Learning Group) 2007-10-25 16:00: Sides, bottom and top; diverse mechanisms of cell adhesion (Dr Nick Brown, PDN) 2007-10-25 16:30: Mesoderm formation in vertebrates - Identifying transcriptional targets of No tail in zebrafish (Dr Fiona Wardle, PDN) 2007-10-25 20:00: (In collaboration with Trinity College Science Society) Small silencing RNA - the dark matter of genetics (Professor David Baulcombe, Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University) 2007-10-26 13:15: Combining classical and modern techniques in C. elegans to solve mechanisms of morphogenesis (Bob Goldstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 2007-10-26 14:00: A new type of stochastic dependence revealed in gene expression data. (Marcelo Segura, Biochemistry Department) 2007-10-26 16:00: The elasticity of knots (Basile Audoly, LMM, Paris) 2007-10-29 14:00: A Guide to Using GPUs for General Signal Processing (Rich Wareham (University of Cambridge)) 2007-10-29 17:30: Ancient Woodlands (Professor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA) 2007-10-30 17:30: The Global Conservation Crisis (Mr. Anthony Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: the Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis') 2007-10-31 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Vincent Plagnol (CIMR)) 2007-11-01 14:00: Variational inference and exponential families (Jurgen Van Gael and Frederik Eaton) 2007-11-01 14:30: Genetic variation in Salmonella Typhi (John Wain- Molecular Microbiology, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge) 2007-11-01 16:00: Tinkering with toxicity: How basic research on drug transporters can translate to policy changes on environmental pollution (David Epel, Stanford University) 2007-11-01 16:00: Prequential Statistics (Philip Dawid, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge) 2007-11-01 16:00: Teenagers: A Natural History (Dr David Bainbridge, PDN) 2007-11-01 16:30: Adapting a bacterial enzyme for gene therapy in the central nervous system. (Dr John Rogers, PDN) 2007-11-01 16:30: Validating Degree-Based Topology Generators (Hamed Haddadi (UCL - currently visiting University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-02 13:15: Neural induction requires simultaneous inhibition of both Smad1 and Smad2 signals during gastrulation (Chenbei Chang - University of Alabama at Birmingham) 2007-11-02 14:00: Multiscale Atomistic Simulation for Dry and Wet Systems (Dr Gabor Csanyi, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-02 14:15: Cancer cell mechanics (Dr Michael Beil, Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Ulm, Germany) 2007-11-02 15:00: New Applications of the Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform (Mark Pickering, Australian Defence Forces Academy in Canberra) 2007-11-02 16:00: Vortices and Polynomials (Hassan Aref, Virginia Tech) 2007-11-05 19:30: Ancient Vaults (Professor Jacques Heymen, Former Head of Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-05 20:00: Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Dr Nick Lane, UCL) 2007-11-06 17:00: Baboon Metaphysics (Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania) 2007-11-07 11:30: Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process Models (Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-07 14:00: An overview of covariance operators in Hilbert space, and their applications (Arthur Gretton) 2007-11-07 16:00: Synchronization in Complex Modular Networks (Albert Diaz-Guilera (Universitat de Barcelona)) 2007-11-07 17:30: The physics of the Earth's interior (Professor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences) 2007-11-08 14:00: Transductive and Semi-Supervised Learning (Karsten Borgwardt (University of Cambridge) and Katherine Heller) 2007-11-08 14:30: Toxin-antitoxin pairs in biotechnology and therapy (Guillermo de la Cueva Mendez - MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Hutchison-MRC Research Centre, Cambridge) 2007-11-08 16:00: Mechanisms of Regulating Epidermal Stem Cell Fate (Dr Michaela Frye, PDN) 2007-11-08 16:30: Interneuron specification in the zebrafish spinal cord (Dr Katharine Lewis, PDN) 2007-11-08 16:30: Peer Dragnet: Tool for Analyzing Peer's Route Announcements and their Impact (Ashley Flavel (AT&T / University of Adelaide)) 2007-11-08 19:00: FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT ! (Dr Tom Smith, Davas UK Ltd, Kimbolton) 2007-11-09 13:15: Rosalind Franklin Seminar: Transcriptional networks during development - dissecting the logics (Eileen Furlong - EMBL, Heidelberg) 2007-11-09 14:00: Nanohardness of High Purity Single Crystals of Cu (111) and Polycrystalline Cu: The Effect of Indenter Load (Dr M. Munawar Chaudhri, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-09 14:15: Emergent properties in biological macromolecular assemblies (Professor Tim Wess School of Optometry and The Institute of Vision, Cardiff University) 2007-11-09 16:00: The Fluid Mechanics of Floating and Sinking (Dominic Vella, ENS and DAMTP) 2007-11-12 13:15: Symmetry-breaking mechanics in multiphase models for cell motility/Reviving Wagner's theory for high-velocity solid-liquid impact (J Oliver (Oxford)) 2007-11-12 14:30: Work in progress on the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care database: I modelling mortality using random effects regression, and II the development of quantitative indices reflecting provider 'process-of-care' (Patty Solomon, Univerisity of Adelaide) 2007-11-12 17:30: Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder) (Professor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK) 2007-11-13 19:00: The Sedgwick in the Galapagos (Dr David Norman, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-14 15:00: Approximate Bayesian Computation and the fossil record (Simon Tavare (DAMTP/Oncology)) 2007-11-14 17:00: Chance, Probability and Rankings: the Truth About League Tables (Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-15 12:00: Development and evolution of the brain: insights from insects (Heinrich Reichert, University of Basel) 2007-11-15 14:00: Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-11-15 14:30: Learning from the worm: predicting phenotype from genotype (Andrew Fraser, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-15 15:00: Evidence for the influence of nuclear architecture in shaping the organisation of genes in eukaryotic chromosomes (Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-15 15:30: Shift happens: A systems-level analysis of the gap gene network in Drosophila (Johannes Jaeger Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-15 16:00: Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language Parsing (Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory) 2007-11-15 16:00: Pain processing - what the brain tells the spinal cord (Prof. Anthony Dickenson, UCL) 2007-11-15 16:30: Creation and destruction of biological polymer networks (Dyche Mullins Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of San Francisco (USA)) 2007-11-15 16:30: Isolating Untrusted Extensions in a Multiserver Operating System (Jorrit N. Herder (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)) 2007-11-15 17:00: Spontaneous activity in the developing nervous system: form and function (Stephen Eglen. DAMTP, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-15 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-11-15 17:30: Physics and the designs of brains (Simon Laughlin Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-16 09:00: Mesoscopic events in living cells: insights from bacterial chemotaxis (Dennis Bray Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-16 09:30: Morphogen transport and gradient formation (Frank Jülicher Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (Germany)) 2007-11-16 10:00: To see the light - living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina (Jochen Guck Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-16 11:00: Biomechanics of epithelial sheet movements (in Drosophila) (Nicole Gorfinkiel, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-16 11:30: Coupling cell cycle morphogenesis and mitotic spindle orientation to regulate tissue morphogenesis (Yohanns Bellaiche Curie Institute, Paris (France)) 2007-11-16 12:00: Where mechanics and biochemistry meet: probing the dynamics of cell polarization and morphogenesis (Ed Munro Center for Cells Dynamics, Friday Harbor Labs, University of Washington, Seattle (USA)) 2007-11-16 12:00: Kernels for graph comparison (Karsten Borgwardt, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-16 13:15: Dissecting the molecular basis of cranial muscle development in the zebrafish (Robert Knight - Kings College London) 2007-11-16 14:30: Structure and dynamics of the cell membrane and cytoskeleton (Pietro Cicuta Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-16 14:30: Mono-monostatic bodies: the story of the Gömböc (Gabor Domokos) 2007-11-16 15:00: The poroelastic properties of cytoplasm: theory and experiments (Guillaume Charras UCL, London Centre for Nanotechnology, London (UK)) 2007-11-16 15:30: No harm in looking? The effects of optical imaging on cytoplasm (Brad Amos MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-16 16:00: The multiscale nature of spark breakdown (Ute Ebert, CWI, Amsterdam.) 2007-11-16 16:15: The Future of the UN (Mr Tim Morris (Head, International Organisations Department, FCO)) 2007-11-16 16:30: Molecular imaging using hyperpolarised carbon-13 (Ferdia Gallagher Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, University of Cambridge (UK)) 2007-11-16 17:00: From words to literature in structural proteomics (Wolfgang Baumeister Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried (Germany)) 2007-11-19 19:30: Lives and Letters (the Robert Hooke Portfolio) (Professor Lisa Jardine CBE, Queen Mary College, University of London) 2007-11-19 20:00: What are imprinted genes doing in the brain: sex, polygamy and mental illness (Professor Lawrence Wilkinson, University of Cardiff) 2007-11-20 19:00: Colours in Gemstones (Mrs Gill Mallet) 2007-11-21 14:00: Clinical data based optimal STI strategies for HIV: a reinforcement learning approach (Dr Guy-Bart Stan (University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-21 15:00: Complex relationships: modelling epidemics on human social networks (Ken Eames, CCBI, DAMTP) 2007-11-21 15:30: Mathematical modelling of directed cell migration (J. Krishnan, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College) 2007-11-22 14:00: Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-11-22 16:00: Predicting dental macroevolution from development: what happened to microevolution? (Jukka Jernvall, University of Helsinki) 2007-11-22 16:00: Error Correcting Codes (David J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics) 2007-11-22 16:30: A Security Architecture for Wireless Medical Sensor Networks (Abdul Alim (University of Cambridge)) 2007-11-23 12:00: A Rebel Alliance in Babel's Aftermath: Combining rules and probabilities in machine translation (Dan Flickinger, CSLI Stanford University and Cambridge Computer Laboratory) 2007-11-23 13:15: How to tinker a haltere instead of a wing: probing downstream targets of Hox genes in Drosophila (Tassos Pavlopoulos - University of Cambridge, Dept. Zoology) 2007-11-23 14:15: The rheology of cellular systems (Dr Alexandre Kabla, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-23 16:00: The use of global modes to understand transition and perform flow control (Dan Henningson, KTH, Stockholm) 2007-11-26 14:00: Color Image Processing: Basic Foundation and Interesting Problems (Joel Trussell, North Carolina State University) 2007-11-26 15:00: Gene Regulatory Network Inference: A Kernel-Based Learning Approach (Sandy Klemm, University of Cambridge) 2007-11-26 16:30: “From Single Neuron Activity to Visual Cognition: A Bridge Too Far?” (Prof. Nikos Logothetis, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen) 2007-11-26 17:30: Hands-free writing (Professor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics) 2007-11-26 20:00: Converting knowledge into treatments (Sex, drugs and frustration) (Dr Peter Goodfellow, Head of Discovery, GSK) 2007-11-27 17:30: Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroimaging (PROFESSOR BARBARA SAHAKIAN, FMEDSCI (Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University)) 2007-11-28 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Richard Adams (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2007-11-29 16:00: Spatial Neutral Theory, biodiversity, and coexistence (Stephen Cornell, University of Leeds) 2007-11-30 10:30: Wormlike and Glassy Wormlike Chains (Professor Klaus Kroy ITP, Leipzig University, Postfach , Leipzig, Germany) 2007-11-30 14:00: The use of a power law global error model for the identification of differentially expressed genes in microarray data (Matthew Russell, Biochemistry Department) 2007-11-30 14:30: Future directions in structural dynamics (David Ewins) 2007-11-30 16:00: Some open problems in dusty plasmas and shaped charge penetration (John Ockendon, Oxford) 2007-12-03 09:05: Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30) (Gos Micklem (Cambridge)) 2007-12-03 09:40: The iGEM competition: Building with biology (James Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team) 2007-12-03 10:20: Computational Design in Synthetic Biology (Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)) 2007-12-03 11:30: Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits (Georg Seelig (Caltech)) 2007-12-03 12:10: Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways (Caleb Bashor (UCSF)) 2007-12-03 14:00: Biological Engineering of Plant Systems (Jim Haseloff (Cambridge)) 2007-12-03 14:40: Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0 (Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0)) 2007-12-03 15:50: Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells (Ron Weiss (Princeton)) 2007-12-03 16:30: General Discussion Session (All) 2007-12-03 19:30: Water that does not wet hands (Dr Zbigniew ("Andy") Szydlo) 2007-12-05 13:00: Phylogeography reveals South Africa's hidden vertebrate diversity (Paulette Bloomer, University of Pretoria, South Africa) 2007-12-06 14:30: Small open reading frames: new, abundant, important (Juan Pablo Couso) 2007-12-06 16:30: Camel: Paravirtual memory CoW in Xen (Grzegorz Miłoś (University of Cambridge)) 2007-12-06 17:00: Testing hypotheses about sexual selection and species recognition in Australian Bowerbirds using principles from sensory ecology (John Endler, University of California, Santa Barbara) 2007-12-06 19:00: ARE WE STAR DUST OR NUCLEAR WASTE? (Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) 2007-12-11 14:30: Non-ignorable missing data in parametric survival models (Katherine Boyd, MRC Clinical Trials Unit) 2007-12-11 17:30: Early-Modern Iberian Empires and the Scientific Revolution (PROFESSOR JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (Department of History, University of Texas at Austin—Author of ‘How to Write the History of the New World: History, Epistemology, and Identities in the 18th C. Atlantic World’)) 2007-12-13 17:15: Scientific Computing in Cambridge meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2007-12-14 13:00: Mechanics of Plant and Fungal Movements: Traps, Slingshots, and Catapults (Jacques Dumais from Harvard Biolabs) 2007-12-17 14:30: Building Models of Juvenile Salmon Demography (Paul Birrell, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2008-01-11 16:30: Scaling Internet Routing with Legacy Protocols (Paul Francis (Cornell University)) 2008-01-14 14:00: Random-Set Theory and its Applications to Wireless Communications (Professor Ezio Biglieri) 2008-01-15 14:30: Graphical models for causal reasoning in epidemiology (Vanessa Didelez, University of Bristol) 2008-01-17 14:00: Bayesian Adaptive Inference and Adaptive Training (Rogier van Dalen and Christian Steinruecken) 2008-01-17 14:30: Genetic studies in Drosophila identify a novel pathologic mechanism for Parkinson disease. (Alex Whitworth, University of Sheffield) 2008-01-17 16:00: Graphical Models (Christopher M. Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge) 2008-01-17 16:00: CANCELLED (Tim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London/Cambridge) 2008-01-17 16:00: Reward and uncertainty (Dr Wolfram Schultz (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-01-17 16:30: Horses for courses in intrauterine programming (Dr Abby Fowden (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-01-17 19:00: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC - LOOKING NORTH: ARCTIC SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR, 2007-2008 (Prof Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar research Institute, Cambridge) 2008-01-18 14:30: Crack tips' black box: Spectroscopic challenge to the strength of solids (Prof. Giuseppe Pezzotti, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan) 2008-01-18 16:00: The world in a bowl of mush: solidification and fluid flow from the inner core to the Arctic ocean (Jerome Neufeld, Cambridge) 2008-01-18 17:30: Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy (Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge) 2008-01-21 16:30: How the brain decides where and when to look (Prof. Jeffrey Schall, Vanderbilt University) 2008-01-21 20:00: Deadly companions - how microbes have shaped our history (Professor Dorothy Crawford, University of Edinburgh) 2008-01-22 11:00: Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease Mapping (Jarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology) 2008-01-23 14:00: Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections (David Blei, Computer Science, Princeton University) 2008-01-23 18:00: The challenges of managing the American foreign aid program post-9/11 in Pakistan and Afghanistan (Mark Ward, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)) 2008-01-24 14:00: Active Learning (Andreas Vlachos and Sinead Williamson) 2008-01-24 14:30: The role of miRNAs and piRNAs in C.elegans development (Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute) 2008-01-24 16:00: Heliconius colour patterns: from gene expression to speciation ecology (Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge) 2008-01-24 16:00: Chromatin and pluripotency (Dr Veronique Azuara (Imperial College, London)) 2008-01-24 16:30: Renewable Energy in Data Centres (Sherif Akoush (University of Cambridge)) 2008-01-24 17:15: Travelling 1st class on the Titanic? (Barbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency) 2008-01-24 18:00: Be safe but starve, or eat but be eaten: how small decisions about risk have big consequences (Will Cresswell, University of St Andrews) 2008-01-25 12:00: Annotating Genericity: How Do Humans Decide?- A Case Study in Ontology Extraction (Aurelie Herbelot, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2008-01-25 13:15: Making neurons outside the stem cell niche (Professor Sally Temple, NY Stem Cell Institute) 2008-01-25 14:00: Harnessing naturally randomized transcription to infer regulatory relationships among genes (Phil Charles, Cambridge Centre for Proteomics) 2008-01-25 14:00: Toward a design guide for the Y-frame sandwich core (Mr Luc St Pierre, CUED) 2008-01-25 14:00: The study of single macromolecules (Ms Csilla Varnai, CUED) 2008-01-25 14:00: Towards applied nonlinear adaptive control (Professor Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College, London)) 2008-01-25 14:00: Investigate the response of light weight structures to dynamic loading of sands (Mr Soohong Park, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2008-01-25 16:00: Are the fractal skeletons the explanation for the plankton paradox and narrowing of arteries due to cell trapping in a disturbed blood flow? (Celso Grebogi, Aberbeen) 2008-01-25 17:30: The Stratigraphy of Serendipity (Professor Susan Alcock, Brown University) 2008-01-28 16:30: Relating brain and behaviour in Drosophila (Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg) 2008-01-28 17:30: G I Taylor Lecture - When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical oddities (Professor Jim Woodhouse, Department of Engineering) 2008-01-28 20:00: (In collaboration with Trinity College Science Society) Lives in Science (Georgina Ferry, Science writer) 2008-01-29 16:00: Reinforcement Learning (Peter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2008-01-30 15:00: tba (Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2008-01-31 14:00: Spectral methods (Ricardo Silva and Arik Azran) 2008-01-31 14:30: Genomic imprinting: a model for the epigenetic control of genome function (Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge) 2008-01-31 16:00: 4D-microscopy & some results: fate, migrations, form in C. elegans & some other curious animals (Ralf Schnabel, University of Braunschweig) 2008-01-31 16:00: Stem Cells, cancer and brain repair. (Dr Colin Watts (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)) 2008-01-31 16:30: Genomic principles for feedback regulation of metabolism (Nicholas Luscombe (European Biological Institute - EBI)) 2008-02-01 12:00: Learning to Classify Noun-Noun Semantic Relations (Diarmuid O'Seaghdha, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-01 14:15: Tiny Hands make Light Work (Prof Miles Padgett, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow) 2008-02-01 16:00: On the dynamics of rapidly oscillating (Ap) stars (Douglas Gough, Cambridge) 2008-02-01 17:30: HIV and the Naked Ape (Professor Robin Weiss, University College London) 2008-02-04 09:30: Introduction and Overview (Prof. Janet Thornton (Director, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute)) 2008-02-04 10:00: ChemoGenomics (Prof. Andrew Hopkins (University of Dundee)) 2008-02-04 10:30: DrugBank2 (Prof. David Wishart (University of Alberta)) 2008-02-04 11:30: ChEBI: Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (Paula de Matos (ChEBI Group, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute)) 2008-02-04 12:00: BindingDB (Prof. Michael Gilson (University of Maryland)) 2008-02-04 12:30: Druggable targets - the need for fresh thinking in neglected disease . (Dr. Tim Wells (Medicines for Malaria Venture)) 2008-02-04 16:30: Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from impulsive actions to compulsive habits. (Prof. Barry Everitt, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-04 19:30: The Journey of the Future (Dr Liz Orme, Director of Transport, Cambridge Consultants) 2008-02-06 14:00: Stable distribution and data sketching (Ioana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford) 2008-02-06 14:00: Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology (Various) 2008-02-06 18:00: Climate change, peak oil, and the coming global energy crisis (Dr Jeremy Leggett (Solar Century)) 2008-02-07 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Tao Li) 2008-02-07 14:30: Genome Instability and Cancer: lessons from analysis of Bloom's syndrome (Ian Hickson, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford) 2008-02-07 16:00: The early evolutionary history of amniote vertebrates: new insights, new fossils. (Johannes Müller, Humboldt University Berlin) 2008-02-07 16:00: Cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease – Hype or Hope? (Dr Roger Barker (Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair)) 2008-02-07 16:30: Web Programming with Links: Theory and Practice (Ioannis Baltopoulos (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-08 13:15: Glial cells generate neurons - mechanisms of neurogenesis and neuronal repair (Professor Magdalena Goetz, Institute of Stem Cell Research) 2008-02-08 14:00: A new constitutive model for viscoplastic porous media (Dr Martin Idiart, CUED) 2008-02-08 14:15: Bayesian variable selection in generalized linear models under cost constraints (David Draper, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) 2008-02-08 16:00: Boundary-layer transition - combining asymptotic receptivity analysis and stability calculations (Paul Hammerton, UEA) 2008-02-08 17:30: The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life (Simon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World') 2008-02-11 17:30: Sundials and the calendar (Dr Frank King, Computer Laboratory) 2008-02-12 14:30: The evolution and adaptation of HIV-1 virulence (Christophe Fraser, Imperial College London) 2008-02-13 15:00: A Programming Language for Biology (Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research)) 2008-02-13 18:00: Creating a Better Place - the Environment Agency - and shaping sustainability (Baroness Barbara Young, Chief Executive of Environment Agency) 2008-02-14 14:00: Probabilistic Matrix Factorization/Deep Belief Nets (Ryan Turner and Phillipp Hennig) 2008-02-14 14:30: What drives recombination hotspots in humans? (Gil McVean, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford) 2008-02-14 16:00: Information Retrieval (Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2008-02-14 16:00: How do insects generate fast and powerful movements? (Malcolm Burrows, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-14 16:00: The secret life of neural stem cells (Dr Kojiro Yano (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-02-14 16:30: Metabolic adaptation to high altitude hypoxia. (Dr Andrew Murray (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-02-14 16:30: Perceptually motivated playout delay adaptation algorithm for VoIP network (Ying Zhang (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-14 17:15: The Economics of Climate Change: Governments, Companies and Households (Adair Turner, Former Director-General of the CBI) 2008-02-15 12:00: Monte Carlo Semantics: Robust Inference and Logical Pattern Processing Based on (Richard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-15 14:00: Characterisation, modeling and applications of the functional behaviour of thin NiTi wires (Dr P Šittner, Budapest University of Technology and Economics) 2008-02-15 14:15: Monitoring the microscopic water distribution in soft solids with multidimensional NMR relaxometry (Dr Brian Hills, Institute of Food Research, Norwich) 2008-02-15 16:00: Global and local instabilities in the wake of a sphere (Benoit Pier, Lyon) 2008-02-15 17:30: Serendipity in Political Life (Oliver Letwin, Member of Parliament) 2008-02-16 13:30: EarthTalk (Dr Sally Gibson and Dr Lyall Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences) 2008-02-18 11:30: Biomedical Image Search (Alex Ksikes (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-18 16:30: Attentional modulation of visual motion processing: Space, feature and objects (Prof. Stefan Treue, University of Göttingen) 2008-02-18 19:30: Rebuilding the Colossus of the Modern World (Tony Sale, Hon Fellow of the British Computer Society) 2008-02-18 20:00: Skin, scales and fins: Genetic Analysis of the Development of Adult Integumentary Organs in the Zebrafish (Prof Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) 2008-02-19 17:30: Why do humans share food? (Professor Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University) 2008-02-20 14:00: Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear Model (Matthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics)) 2008-02-20 14:00: Computational methods to analyse large-scale and high-dimensional gene perturbation screens (Florian Markowetz (University of Princeton)) 2008-02-21 14:00: Model selection and model order adaptation for clustering (Peter Orbanz (ETH Zurich)) 2008-02-21 14:30: Genetic Dissection of the Homeostatic Signaling: Systems that Stabilize Neural Function (Graeme Davis, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics - UCSF) 2008-02-21 16:00: Statistical Machine Translation (Bill Byrne, Machine Intelligence Laboratory) 2008-02-21 16:00: Patterning the fish inner ear: development and evolution (Tanya Whitfield, University of Sheffield) 2008-02-21 16:00: Early intracellular Abeta amyloid pathology and its relevance to Alzheimer's therapeutics (Dr Claudio Cuello (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)) 2008-02-21 16:30: Scheduling for multi-carrier wireless systems (Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs)) 2008-02-21 17:30: Python Tools for software development (Oliver Stegle (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-21 18:00: Risk in Prisons (Phil Wheatley, HM Prison Service) 2008-02-22 13:15: TALK CANCELLED: A clean start: the oocyte-to-embryo transition in C.elegans (TALK CANCELLED: Professor Geraldine Seydoux, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) 2008-02-22 14:00: Molecular dynamics modelling of biomaterials interfaces (Dr Lucio Colombi-Ciacchi, University of Karlsruhe) 2008-02-22 16:00: Manipulating microdroplets in microfluidic devices as a tool towards high-throughput biology (Wilhelm Huck, Melville Laboratory, Cambridge) 2008-02-22 17:30: Serendipity as a Force in Physics (Professor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge) 2008-02-25 16:30: Beyond Localization: What Brain Imaging Can Tell Us (Prof. Dick Passingham, University of Oxford) 2008-02-25 17:30: Unpredictability and chance in science and technology (Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) 2008-02-25 20:00: From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulation (Professor Claudio Stern) 2008-02-26 12:00: Local protein synthesis at synapses (Professor Erin Schuman, California Institute of Technology) 2008-02-26 15:30: Improving Xen Security through Disaggregation (Derek Murray (University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-26 19:30: What use is a college education? (Dr Don MacDonald) 2008-02-27 14:00: Spatial point process modelling and its applications in ecology (Dr. Janine B. Illian, University of St. Andrews) 2008-02-27 18:00: Sustainable Development in the Built Environment; Progress or Procrastination? (Professor Peter Brandon and Dr Patrizia Lombardi (Salford University)) 2008-02-27 18:00: Freedom, Technology and Terror (Professor Ross Anderson (Security Engineering)) 2008-02-28 14:00: The Information Bottleneck / Dynamic Kernals for speaker verification (Zoi Roupakia and Sandy Klemm) 2008-02-28 14:30: tba (tba) 2008-02-28 16:00: Inductive Logic Programming (Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London)) 2008-02-28 16:00: The Mammoth's Tale: Evolution and Extinction in the Ice Age (Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum London) 2008-02-28 16:00: The role of Pax genes in neurogenic placode identity (Dr Clare Baker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-02-28 16:30: Thoughts on an Identifier/Locator Split for IPv6 (Ran Atkinson (Extreme Networks)) 2008-02-28 16:30: The lamprey locomotor network and functional recovery after spinal injury (Dr David Parker (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)) 2008-02-28 19:30: The thought of poetry and its institutional discontents (Dr Drew Milne (Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, University of Cambridge)) 2008-02-29 12:00: Applications of Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Systems (Diane Litmann, University of Edinburgh) 2008-02-29 14:00: Microstructure matters: why smaller is often (but not always) stronger (Dr Erica Lilleodden, GKSS Hamburg) 2008-02-29 14:00: A behavioural approach to play in mechanical networks (Dr Frank Scheibe) 2008-02-29 14:00: Using biological ontologies in databases: where do GO terms come from? (Susan Tweedie, Department of Genetics) 2008-02-29 14:15: Soft Matter for Hard Copy (Dr Andrew Howe, Kodak European Research, 332 Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WN) 2008-02-29 16:00: From Cradle to Grave: Laboratory Modelling of Internal Tides (Thomas Peacock, MIT) 2008-02-29 17:30: Cosmological Serendipity (Simon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer) 2008-03-03 11:00: Varnish -- programming like it is 2008 (Poul-Henning Kamp (http://people.freebsd.org/~phk/)) 2008-03-03 17:30: Socrates and the invention of philosophical conversation (Professor Malcolm Schofield (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge)) 2008-03-03 19:30: Nanoelectronics and Quantum Computing (Dr David Williams, Head of the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory) 2008-03-04 14:00: Information Flows in Cooperative Networked Control Systems (Dr Girish Nair (University of Melbourne, Australia)) 2008-03-04 19:00: Lapis Lazuli (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute) 2008-03-05 15:00: tba (Irene Papatheodorou (Cancer Research Institute) University of Cambridge) 2008-03-06 11:00: A Bayesian approach to network modularity: inferring the structure and scale of modular networks (Jake Hofman (Columbia University)) 2008-03-06 14:00: 'All of Nonparametric Statistics' (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-03-06 14:30: 'Cell fate decisions and establishment of pluripotency' (Jennifer Nichols - Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge) 2008-03-06 16:00: mRNA quality control: How do cells recognize and degrade aberrant mRNAs? (Elisa Izaurralde, Max Planck Inst Developmental Biology, Tuebingen) 2008-03-06 16:00: Computational modelling of structural and functional development of the visual system. (Dr Stephen Eglen (DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Science)) 2008-03-06 17:15: Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing China (Sian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University, Hong Kong) 2008-03-06 18:00: The risk of terrorism (Sir Richard Dearlove, former Head of the Secret Intelligence Service) 2008-03-06 19:30: Are academics intellectuals?: a reading of Edward Said (Dr. Priyamvada Gopal (Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge)) 2008-03-07 12:00: Computer-generated Cryptic Crossword Clues: exploring creative NLG (David Hardcastle, The Open University) 2008-03-07 14:15: Changes in skeletal muscle cell volume during exercise (Prof Chris Huang, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2008-03-07 14:30: **CANCELLED** Flow Induced Excitation of Elastic Modes (Dr Shreyas Mandre, Harvard Unviversity) 2008-03-07 16:00: The mathematics of optical fibre manufacture (Alistair Fitt, Southampton) 2008-03-07 17:30: Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology (Professor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University) 2008-03-07 19:30: National and International Environmental Policy and Climate Change (Sir Martin Holdgate) 2008-03-10 17:30: RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature? (Professor David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany, Department of Plant Sciences) 2008-03-10 18:00: The big experiment (Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry) 2008-03-10 19:30: Student Papers and Grand Discussion (Mishko Hansen, Karin Doolan, Antoine Panaïoti) 2008-03-10 19:30: Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops? (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre) 2008-03-11 11:30: Discriminative Methods with Structure (Simon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley)) 2008-03-11 14:30: New copulae from an order-statistics approach (Rose Baker, University of Salford) 2008-03-11 18:00: Preserve the old, but know the new (Dr Ann Prentice, Medical Research Council) 2008-03-11 20:00: The early human occupation of Europe and Britain (Prof Jim Rose, Royal Holloway) 2008-03-12 13:00: Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energy (Dr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology)) 2008-03-12 15:00: A comparison of background correction methods for two-colour microarrays (Matt Ritchie (Cancer Research Institute, University of Cambridge)) 2008-03-12 18:00: Carbon Footprinting: Industry, People, the Universe and Everything (Professor Adisa Azapagic (Manchester University)) 2008-03-12 18:00: Acoustics and architecture (Professor Deborah Howard, Department of History of Art) 2008-03-12 18:30: Regulating Global Capitalism (Professor Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management and Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee, Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme (CBBP) at the Judge Business School) 2008-03-12 20:00: Sustainable energy - without the hot air (Professor David MacKay, Department of Physics) 2008-03-13 12:00: Natural selection at SNP and Copy Number Variation in the human genome (Chris Tyler-Smith, The Sanger Institute) 2008-03-13 16:00: Macrophage migration and chemotaxis in Drosophila embryos (Will Wood, University of Bath) 2008-03-13 18:30: Memories are made of this (Prof Steven Rose, Open University) 2008-03-13 20:00: Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourism (Will Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic; Duncan Law-Green, National Space Centre) 2008-03-14 14:00: Systems and control challenges in model-based reservoir engineering (Professor Paul Van den Hof (Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)) 2008-03-14 14:30: A Methodology to Study Morphological Changes in Sclerotic Arteries, and Related Biomechanical Modelling and Simulation (Professor Gerhard Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology) 2008-03-14 16:00: Phase transitions far from equilibrium in wet granular matter (Stefan Herminghaus, Gottingen) 2008-03-14 18:00: Hidden in rock and frozen in time (Dr Eric Wolff, BAS; Dr Aradhna Tripati, Dept of Earth Sciences) 2008-03-14 19:30: Smart drugs? (Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry) 2008-03-14 20:00: The human genome as an RNA machine (Prof John Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia) 2008-03-15 11:00: It’s about time (Andrew Pontzen) 2008-03-15 11:00: The science of Doctor Who (Dr Paul Parsons) 2008-03-15 12:00: The secret life of your brain (Andrew Morris) 2008-03-15 12:15: Working at the speed of light: modern high power laser beams (Dr Bill O'Neill) 2008-03-15 13:00: Hyenas and minervas: women, science and history (Dr Patricia Fara) 2008-03-15 13:15: Learning from nature (Dr Jonathan wood) 2008-03-15 14:00: The aviation heritage of East Anglia (Terry Holloway - Marshall's of Cambridge) 2008-03-15 14:15: Extreme Science (Dr Basil Singer) 2008-03-15 15:00: Sex, drugs and rock & roll – life in forensic science (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-03-17 14:00: Learning quantum physics (Dr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering)) 2008-03-17 19:30: Not Mammoth Steaks Again?! (Professor Martin Jones, Archaeological Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2008-03-18 18:00: Happiness and heartbreak (Dr Nick Baylis; Professor Martin Cowie) 2008-03-18 20:00: Quirkology: weird psychology (Professor Richard Wiseman) 2008-03-19 19:30: Science and technology in international development (Professor David King, Tim Radford, Peter Head) 2008-03-20 16:00: Ecosystem decay in Amazonian forest fragments (Bill Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) 2008-03-20 16:30: Stabilizing Internet Routing: or, A Story of Heterogeneity (Brighten Godfrey (UC Berkeley)) 2008-03-20 17:30: SciComp minitalks (tbc) 2008-03-20 18:30: Wicken Fen: the science behind the vision (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-03-26 14:00: Molecular arms race between host and parasite leads to evolution of robustness against gene loss in signaling networks (Dr Orkun Soyer, CoSBi) 2008-03-27 16:30: Preventing memory error exploits with WIT (Periklis Akritidis (University of Cambridge)) 2008-04-02 14:00: Beam Sampling for Infinite Hidden Markov Models (Jurgen Van Gael) 2008-04-04 14:00: The 2008 release of CES – new Bio and Eco tools (Professor Mike Ashby, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2008-04-07 14:00: Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Control (Professor Sanjay Lall (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University)) 2008-04-07 14:15: Wolfgang Huber from the EBI will be talking on the vsn method. (Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus) 2008-04-08 14:30: Issues and controversies in life course epidemiology (Bianca De Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 2008-04-09 11:30: Some Applications of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Rate in Hidden Markov Models (Dr. M. Vidyasagar (Executive Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services)) 2008-04-15 16:30: "The love and hate affaire between Wingless and Notch in Drosophila wing development" (Marco Milan, ICREA and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB)) 2008-04-17 14:00: Signal/Image Reconstruction from Sparse Measurements: Theory, Algorithms and Applications (Dr Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College) 2008-04-17 17:30: Functional Programming (Various Speakers) 2008-04-21 14:00: Lattice Decoding for Digital Communications: Where Minkowski Meets Shannon (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-04-23 18:00: Sustainable Development at the Eden Project (Tim Smit (Eden Project)) 2008-04-24 14:00: A robustness-based approach to systems-oriented drug design (Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories) 2008-04-24 14:30: “Love at First Light” (Gero Miesenboeck – Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics) 2008-04-24 16:00: Genetic control of tissue growth and form in Drosophila (Barry Thompson, Cancer Research UK) 2008-04-24 16:00: Placental evolution, structure and function. (Dr Peter Wooding, PDN) 2008-04-24 16:30: Phototransduction in Drosophila. (Professor Roger Hardie, PDN) 2008-04-24 17:15: Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem (Professor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey) 2008-04-25 14:00: FlyMine, InterMine and databases for biology. (Richard Smith, Flymine, Dept of Genetics) 2008-04-25 15:00: Short talks by 2nd-year research students (Various) 2008-04-28 14:00: Emerging complexities in the recovery of Canadian lakes from acidification: the influence of climate change, metal toxicity and Ca decline (Norman Yan, York University Toronto) 2008-04-28 19:30: www.Antibodies_Direct.com (Dr Jonathan Milner, Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park) 2008-04-28 20:00: Can we trust biologists? (Lord Robert Winston) 2008-04-30 18:00: Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics (Professor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre)) 2008-04-30 19:30: Understanding in ancient and modern Number Theory (Professor John Coates, Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics) 2008-05-01 14:30: “A cellular perspective on sensory-organ regeneration in the zebrafish” (Hernan Lopez-Schier – Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona) 2008-05-01 16:00: Epidemic Streaming: the story so far (Andy Twigg (University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-01 16:00: Stem cell renewal and lineage selection in mammalian epidermis. (Dr Fiona Watt, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge) 2008-05-01 17:15: International environmental governance (Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA) 2008-05-01 19:30: Are (human and other) animals rational? (Professor Vaux, Department of Linguistics) 2008-05-02 14:00: Price Mechanisms for Distributed Control Synthesis (Professor Anders Rantzer (Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden)) 2008-05-02 14:00: High-Strain Rate Studies (Dr Bill Proud (Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-02 14:15: Modelling Self-Assembled Polymer Composites (Dr Nigel Clarke, Department of Chemistry, Durham University) 2008-05-02 16:00: Water pearls (David Quere, ESPCI, Paris) 2008-05-05 16:30: Learning to localize sound (Prof. Andrew King, University of Oxford) 2008-05-05 19:30: Possibilities and limitations of understanding (Dr Michael Nedo, Director of The Wittgenstein Archive) 2008-05-06 14:30: Dynamic predicting by landmarking as an alternative for multi-state modeling: an application to acute lymphoid leukemia data (Hans van Houwelingen, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands) 2008-05-06 20:00: Cancer and the cell cycle (Sir Tim Hunt) 2008-05-07 17:30: Twenty Chickens for a Saddle (Robyn Scott, Author of "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle") 2008-05-07 19:30: Chekhov’s poetic and social realism: poetry and politics on stage (Professor Anna Sica, University of Palermo, Theatre Studies) 2008-05-08 16:00: Timing the end of neural proliferation in Drosophila (Alex Gould, National Institute for Medical Research London) 2008-05-08 16:00: An Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory (Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL)) 2008-05-08 16:00: Analysis of cell movement in early embryos. (Dr Benedicte Sanson, PDN) 2008-05-08 16:00: A Weighted Spectrum Metric for Comparison of Internet Topologies (Damien Fay (University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-08 16:30: Imaging sub-cellular pH dynamics: from synapse to acinus. (Dr Christof Schwiening, PDN) 2008-05-08 19:30: STUDENT TALKS AND GRAND DISCUSSION (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-05-09 12:00: Error-Aware Probabilistic Parsing (Jennifer Foster, Dublin City University) 2008-05-09 14:00: Eulerian and Lagrangian Observability of Point Vortex Flows (Professor Arthur J. Krener (Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis)) 2008-05-09 14:15: Capillary-Gravity Waves (Elie Raphael, ESPCI, Paris, France) 2008-05-09 16:00: Local convective instability and transient growth in steady and pulsatile stenotic flows (Spencer Sherwin, Imperial) 2008-05-12 11:00: Stability analysis for hybrid dynamical systems (Professor Andrew R. Teel (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara)) 2008-05-12 14:00: Dynamic Group Tracking (S. K. Pang) 2008-05-12 19:30: "I was nowhere near there at the time Guv - honest" (Professor Sir Bob Hepple, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, former Master of Clare College) 2008-05-13 11:30: Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive Robotics (Dr Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham)) 2008-05-14 14:00: Modeling Behaviour in Economic Games using Game-Theoretic POMDPs (Debajyoti Ray (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2008-05-15 14:00: Reverse engineering cell mechanics (Prof. Daniel Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA) 2008-05-15 16:00: Sexual dimorphism, life history, and social structure in early hominin species (Charlie Lockwood, University College London) 2008-05-15 16:00: The mammalian Y chromosome and infertility. (Dr Paul Burgoyne, NIMR, MRC, London) 2008-05-15 17:30: Provisional: Productivity Applications (tbc) 2008-05-15 19:00: ALL IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE - THE SCIENCE OF FOOD & FLAVOUR (Dr Len Fisher, University of Bristol) 2008-05-16 12:00: A maximum entropy approach to preposition and determiner selection (Rachele De Felice, University of Oxford) 2008-05-16 14:00: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ball Milled Nanocrystalline Copper Reinforced by Nano Alumina (Mr Sarig Nachum (Cambridge University Engineering Department)) 2008-05-16 16:00: Acoustic resonances and trapped modes in unbounded domains (Werner Koch, Gottingen) 2008-05-19 14:15: Blind sparsity constrained inverse problems in volumetric imaging (Al Hero, University of Michigan) 2008-05-19 16:30: Dendritic recordings in vivo - the role of inhibition in shaping dendritic activity (Prof. Matthew Larkum, University of Bern) 2008-05-21 09:30: Determinants of tissue-specific transcriptional regulation in a transplanted chromosome (Duncan Odom (Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute)) 2008-05-21 10:15: Signals, Gradients and Cellular Architecture (Karen Lipkow (Cambridge Systems Biology Centre & Biochemistry Department)) 2008-05-21 11:20: Collective Hydrodynamics of Swimming Micro-Organisms (Tim Pedley (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)) 2008-05-21 12:05: Quantum Mechanical Simulations of Biochemistry (Gabor Csanyi (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-21 13:50: Evolution of protein complexes and protein interaction networks (Sarah Teichmann (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)) 2008-05-21 14:35: Biological learning and memory from a theoretical perspective (Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department, University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-21 15:40: Mapping quantitative traits in mice and plants (Richard Mott (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)) 2008-05-21 16:25: Genomic Regulatory Network Models for Developing Blood Stem Cells (Dr. Bertie Gottgens (Haematology)) 2008-05-22 10:30: Virtually Saving the Planet (Steven Hand (University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-22 14:00: Continuous Time Bayesian Networks (Jurgen Van Gael) 2008-05-22 14:30: “Switching and Interlocking: a computational look at genome regulation” (Thomas down – Gurdon Institute) 2008-05-22 16:00: Molecular Architecture of the novel RNA binding protein Rrp47 and its role in Exosome-Mediated RNA Processing and Surveillance (Phil Mitchell, University of Sheffield) 2008-05-22 16:00: Struggling to measure the number of protons pumped in by the calcium pump in snail neurones. (Professor Roger Thomas, PDN) 2008-05-22 16:30: A magnesium-inhibitable conductance hyperpolarises the resting membrane potential of the human erythroleukemia cell line (Dr Michael Mason) 2008-05-22 18:30: CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-05-23 14:00: Nanomechanical Property Measurements for Sub-10 nm Thick Solid Films with Application in Magnetic Storage (Professor Andreas Polycarpou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, Mechanical Sciences and Engineering Department)) 2008-05-23 14:15: Force generation at dynamic microtubule ends (Prof Marileen Dogterom, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, AmsterdamThe Netherlands) 2008-05-23 16:00: Stress transmission in granular systems, criticality and incipient yield flow (Rafi Blumenfeld, Imperial College & Cavendish) 2008-05-26 16:30: Relating Brain and Behaviour in Drosophila (Prof. Martin Heisenberg, University of Würzburg) 2008-05-27 14:00: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2008-05-28 14:00: Structural analysis of cellular networks (Prof. Jörg Stelling, ETH Zürich) 2008-05-28 14:00: H-Infinity Clustering (Prof. Sam Roweis (Toronto)) 2008-05-29 14:00: Stochastic integration and Ito's lemma (Frederik Eaton (University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-29 16:00: What comes next in biological microscopy? (Brad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge) 2008-05-29 16:00: Efficient Node Discovery in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (Vladimir Dyo (University of Cambridge)) 2008-05-29 16:00: Why does it hurt so much? Understanding the neurobiology of pain. (Professor Steve McMahon, King’s College, London) 2008-05-29 17:00: Maps and graphs on surfaces (Professor C Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark)) 2008-05-30 11:00: Feedback Control and the Arrow of Time (Professor Malcolm Smith (Cambridge University Engineering Department)) 2008-05-30 11:00: Identification of dynamical subpopulations, optimal experiment design and more (Alberto Giovanni Busetto, ETH Zurich) 2008-05-30 13:15: Pax genes and neurogenic placode identity (Clare Baker - PDN, University of Cambridge) 2008-05-30 14:15: Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Capsules and Gels (Prof Anna C Balazs, Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh) 2008-05-30 16:00: Fluid mechanics of carbon dioxide sequestration (Herbert Huppert, DAMTP) 2008-06-02 16:30: Functions of Electrical Junctions in the Thalamocortical System (Prof. Barry Connors, Brown University.) 2008-06-03 12:00: Getting in and out of mitosis (Sir Tim Hunt) 2008-06-03 14:30: "Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability". (Professor David Pellman, Havard Medical School.) 2008-06-03 14:30: Focussed model selection and model averaging for the Cox regression model (Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) 2008-06-05 16:00: Fossils and phylogeny: a waste of time? (Matthew Wills, University of Bath) 2008-06-05 16:00: Deep in the Shadows: Implementation & Applications of Shadow Page Tables (Michael A Fetterman (University of Cambridge)) 2008-06-05 16:00: To Cross or Not To Cross? Transcriptional Control of Axonal Pathfinding Choices. (Dr Sara I. Wilson, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York) 2008-06-05 17:30: Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism (Professor Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University) 2008-06-06 12:00: Multiword Expressions: Evaluation of Extraction Methods and their Impact on Grammar Engineering (Valia Kordoni (LT-Lab DFKI GmbH and Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany)) 2008-06-06 13:15: Genetic regulation of musculoskeletal development in zebrafish (Henry Roehl - Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield) 2008-06-06 14:00: Dynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks (Dr David Angeli (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London)) 2008-06-06 14:15: Quadruplexes. What else ? (Dr Jean-Louis Mergny, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle USM 503, Regulation et Dynamique des Genomes, Paris, France) 2008-06-06 16:00: Arctic sea ice and climate change (Peter Wadhams, DAMTP) 2008-06-09 16:30: The Economy of the Mind (Prof. Michael Platt, Duke University) 2008-06-10 13:30: THE ARMOURERS AND BRASIERS’ CAMBRIDGE FORUM (see http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/forum/ for details) 2008-06-10 14:30: Structure Ranking and System Identification for Non-Linear Biochemical Process Models: Inferring the Structure of the ERK Pathway via Bayes Factors (Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow) 2008-06-12 14:00: Assessing high-dimensional latent variable models (Dr Iain Murray (Toronto)) 2008-06-12 15:00: Monte Carlo PHD Filtering (Nick Whiteley, CUED Signal Processing Lab,) 2008-06-12 16:00: Evo-Devo and 'Typological Thinking': An Exculpation (Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge) 2008-06-12 16:00: Reusing legacy device drivers in an L4-based microkernel environment (Bjoern Doebel (TU Dresden)) 2008-06-13 14:15: Optically-assisted interrogation of cells (Dr Lynn Paterson, Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) 2008-06-13 16:00: Jets, vortices and eddy fluxes in baroclinic turbulence (Andrew Thompson, DAMTP) 2008-06-16 11:30: Convex Matrix Inequalities vs Linear Matrix Inequalities (Professor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, University of California San Diego)) 2008-06-16 14:00: Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processes (Dr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London)) 2008-06-17 14:00: Subdiagonal pivot structures and associated canonical forms under state isometries (Professor Bernard Hanzon (School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork)) 2008-06-18 13:00: A parametric approach to modeling changes in general health and cognition: developing a stochastic model of aging (Arnold Mitnitski, PhD, Department of Medicine, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) 2008-06-19 09:30: Registration and Tea/Coffee (There is no Registration Fee but pre-registration is requested) 2008-06-19 10:15: Wellcome and Background to Meeting (Prof. Janet Thornton & Dr. Dominic Clark (EMBL-EBI)) 2008-06-19 10:30: Ontologies for Biologists – The Promise and the Reality (Prof. Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge (and former joint head of EMBL-EBI)) 2008-06-19 10:50: The OBO Foundry and PATO (Prof. Michael Ashburner (University of Cambridge)) 2008-06-19 11:10: Towards an Open Source Disease Ontology (Prof. Warren Kibbe (Northwestern University) & Prof. Lynn Schriml (U. Maryland School of Medicine)) 2008-06-19 12:20: Mouse Genome Informatics Database: Phenotypes and Phenotype Ontology (Prof. Janan Eppig, The Jackson Laboratory) 2008-06-19 14:30: “TGF-beta/Dpp signalling in epithelial morphogenesis and cell death” (Christian Dahmann – MPI-CBG Dresden) 2008-06-19 16:00: Social networking 2.0: Cityware for Facebook (Vassilis Kostakos (University of Madeira and CMU)) 2008-06-19 17:30: Provisional: Workflow processing (Speakers to be confirmed) 2008-06-20 12:00: Fuzzy Logic: Fading Hype or Technology of the Future? (Dr. Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University, Austria) 2008-06-23 14:30: Optical force and torque on a spheroid: Generalized Lorenz Mie Theory (Dr Feng Xu, TU Darmstadt, Germany) 2008-06-24 14:45: Epidemiological models for a Respondent Driven Sample (Märt Möls, University of Tartu, Estonia) 2008-06-24 15:00: MIMO Systems: Myths & Realities (Professor Ralf Müller) 2008-06-25 14:00: Modelling and simulation of biological systems with COPASI (Prof. Pedro Mendes, University of Manchester) 2008-06-25 14:00: Making Machines Listen (Paris Smaragdis, Adobe) 2008-06-25 15:00: Bayesian analysis of complex biological systems (Dr Edo Airoldi (Princeton)) 2008-06-26 14:00: Variational Bayesian Mixtures of Gaussians (Milica Gasic) 2008-06-27 14:00: Towards control and design of pulse-based systems (Dr Ali Belabbas (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University)) 2008-07-01 14:30: Hierarchical Evolutionary Stochastic Search with Adaptive Proposals (Leonardo Bottolo, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London) 2008-07-03 16:00: Social-based Code Dissemination in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (Bence Pasztor (University of Cambridge)) 2008-07-04 12:00: Nobody Writes Letters Anymore: Helping people make sense of historically significant email collections (Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA) 2008-07-08 09:30: Posters session 1 (Several speakers) 2008-07-08 11:30: How to write a great research paper (Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research) 2008-07-08 13:30: How to give a great research talk (Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research) 2008-07-09 09:30: Posters session 2 (Several speakers) 2008-07-09 13:30: Mind-reading machines (Peter Robinson, University of Cambridge) 2008-07-09 16:30: The Geometry of the Space of Shapes (Prof. David Mumford (Brown University)) 2008-07-10 09:30: Posters session 3 (Several speakers) 2008-07-10 11:00: Rough guide to being an entrepreneur (Jack Lang, University of Cambridge) 2008-07-10 13:30: Grand challenges in computing (Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research) 2008-07-10 15:00: How does the Internet work? (Richard Black, Microsoft Research) 2008-07-10 16:30: In search of the holy grail (Wouter Spek, European Science Foundation) 2008-07-11 09:30: Posters session 4 (Several speakers) 2008-07-11 11:00: Take control or how to manage your supervisor (Tristram Hooley, UK GRAD Programme) 2008-07-11 14:00: A systems-scale dynamic analysis of complex biology systems (Feng He (Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany)) 2008-07-11 15:00: Enzymatic computing (Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton) 2008-07-15 11:30: Message-passing inference on graphical models (Simon Byrne (Cambridge)) 2008-07-15 14:00: Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Dynamical Systems (Emily Fox (MIT)) 2008-07-16 14:00: Double Feature: Optimal Precoding for MIMO and Divergence Estimation for Continuous Distributions (Dr Fernando Perez-Cruz (Princeton)) 2008-07-17 17:30: Provisional: Field Programmable Gate Arrays (Speakers to be confirmed) 2008-07-29 14:00: NetFPGA: An open platform for high-speed data processing (John Lockwood) 2008-07-29 14:15: Information Fusion for Remote Sensing Satellite Networks (John Richards, The Australian National University) 2008-08-05 14:00: Moving WSN Programming Abstractions into the Real World (Luca Mottola (Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy)) 2008-08-05 14:00: An Integrated Multiscale Framework for Performing Design and Analysis of Composite and Smart Structures (Dr Steven M Arnold, Chief Mechanics and Life Prediction Branch, Structures and Materials Division, NASA Glenn Research Center) 2008-08-07 14:00: Entropy Rate of Diffusion Processes on Complex Networks (Vito Latora (Universita' di Catania, Italy)) 2008-08-12 14:15: Tracking ground based targets in aerial video with dual-tree wavelet polar matching and particle filtering (James Nelson, CUED) 2008-08-12 14:45: A Bayesian Wavelet-Based Multidimensional Deconvolution With Sub-Band Emphasis (Yingsong Zhang, CUED) 2008-08-26 09:30: MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations (MPhil Students) 2008-08-26 14:15: Bayesian Inference for Diffusions using Data Augmentation MCMC (Dr Kostas Kalogeropoulos, CUED) 2008-08-27 09:30: MPhil in Computational Biology - Student Project Presentations (MPhil Students) 2008-08-29 15:00: A talk about XenoTiny (Joe Sventek (University of Glasgow)) 2008-09-03 16:00: Assessing the effects of statistical dependencies on neural population coding in the visual pathway (Jonathan Pillow (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)) 2008-09-08 15:30: "Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control" (Prof. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School) 2008-09-09 14:00: Matrix Factorization and Relational Learning (Ajit Paul Singh (CMU)) 2008-09-10 14:00: Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priors (Dr Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge)) 2008-09-11 13:00: Mobicom Rehearsal Day (Liam McNamara (UCL), Anders Lindgren (U. Cambridge), Mirco Musolesi (U.Cambridge)) 2008-09-11 14:00: The War on Loops (Frederik Eaton (CUED)) 2008-09-15 14:00: Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learning (Jo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California)) 2008-09-16 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering) 2008-09-16 14:15: Hierarchical Bayesian models for audio and music processing (A. Taylan Cemgil, CUED Signal Processing Lab.) 2008-09-17 14:00: Nonparametric Bayesian Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Hierarchical, Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language Model (Dr Frank Wood (UCL)) 2008-09-18 14:00: Levy Processes (Katherine Heller (CUED Machine Learning)) 2008-09-18 14:00: Uncovering design principles of bacterial biochemical networks and biofilm self-organization (Oleg Igoshin (Rice University)) 2008-09-18 17:30: Development tools for mobile devices (Alexander Griekspoor (mekentosj.com), Alistair de B Clarkson (nCipher)) 2008-09-19 14:15: Performance and Implementation Aspects of Nonlinear Filtering (Dr Gustav Hendeby, Linkoping University, Sweden) 2008-09-23 14:00: Learning Bigrams from Unigrams (Andrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison)) 2008-09-25 19:00: A Scientific Wine Tasting - The Maturation of Port and Madeira Wines (Luke Webster) 2008-09-26 15:00: A Bayesian approach to language learning (Dr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh)) 2008-09-29 11:00: Spoken Dialogue Management (Sebastien Bratieres) 2008-09-29 17:00: Cryogenic Turbulence (Professor K Sreenivasan (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste)) 2008-09-30 13:00: RNA editing in plant organelles: Correlation between editing sites and protein three-dimensional structures (Kei Yura (Ochanomizu University, Tokyo)) 2008-09-30 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Máté Lengyel (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2008-10-01 10:45: Systems Biology: from models (and model organisms) to medicines (Professor Steve Oliver, Centre for Systems Biology) 2008-10-01 11:15: Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications (Dr Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering) 2008-10-01 11:15: From calcium imaging to spikes, using sequential Monte Carlo methods (Joshua Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University) 2008-10-01 11:45: Health Technologies KTN: working together to accelerate innovation in healthcare (Professor Mehdi Tavakoli, Health Technologies KTN) 2008-10-01 13:30: Closing on closed-loop insulin delivery: Artificial Pancreas - where we are and where we go (Dr Roman Hovorka, Institute for Metabolic Sciences) 2008-10-01 13:30: Molecular assembly lines for drug biosynthesis (Professor Peter Leadley (Department of Biochemistry)) 2008-10-01 14:00: Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system (Professor James Fawcett, Centre for Brain Repair) 2008-10-01 14:00: Tools for Engineering Morphogenesis in Plants (Dr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences) 2008-10-01 14:30: Materials for Medical Engineering (Dr Ruth Cameron, Centre for Medical Materials, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) 2008-10-01 14:30: Reconstructing the Bacterial Cell Factory (Dr David Summers, Department of Genetics) 2008-10-01 15:30: Applications of physical science to biological systems: droplets and fragments (Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry) 2008-10-01 16:00: Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative (Professor Athene Donald, Director, Centre for Physics of Medicine) 2008-10-01 16:30: Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative (Professor Roger Pedersen, Centre for Regenerative Medicine) 2008-10-02 14:00: Condition Monitoring (Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-02 16:00: Geosensor Networks: State of the Art (Silvia Nittel (University of Maine)) 2008-10-08 13:30: Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor Processes (Dr Erik Sudderth (UC Berkeley)) 2008-10-09 13:00: Insulin-like peptide signaling in renal tubules of Drosophila is under control of stress-induced release of tachykinin-related peptide (Dick Nassel, University of Stockholm) 2008-10-09 14:00: CANCELLED (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-10-09 16:00: Alien movements across space and time: non-randomness in bird introductions (Tim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London) 2008-10-09 16:00: Mouse molecular genetic studies of axon degeneration (Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2008-10-09 16:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-09 19:00: Molecules of Murder (Dr John Emsley) 2008-10-10 14:00: On Low Dimensional Random Projections and Similarity Search (Lu, Yu-En (Eric) (Univeristy of Cambridge)) 2008-10-10 14:00: Stabilisability via time-delayed feedback: an eigenvalue optimisation approach (Dr Henri Huijberts (School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London)) 2008-10-10 14:15: The biophysical properties of microtubules and their technological potential (Prof. Jack Tuszynski, Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) 2008-10-10 14:30: Maths, Engineering and Industry (John Ockendon, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mechanics) 2008-10-10 16:00: When ices collide: electricity, cosmogony, and reciprocity (John S. Wettlaufer, Yale University) 2008-10-13 16:30: Grid cells and spatial representation in the entorhinal cortex (Prof. May-Britt Moser, Kavli Institute, Trondheim) 2008-10-13 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales (Professor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics) 2008-10-13 17:30: The Larmor Lecture: "Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scale" (Professor Jeremy J Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre Department of Physics. University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-14 14:30: Transdimensional sampling algorithms for Bayesian variable selection in classification problems with many more variables than observations (Jim Griffin, University of Kent) 2008-10-14 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Mate Lengyel (Cambridge University, UK)) 2008-10-15 14:00: Studies of plastic flow localization in different materials (Professor V Tvergaard, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Technical University of Denmark) 2008-10-16 14:00: To Naive Bayes or to Logistically Regress: That is the Question (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-16 14:30: "Worms on Prozac: A genetic dissection of neuronal signalling pathways" (Dr Stephen Nurrish, MRC Lab of Molecular Cell Biology, University College, London.) 2008-10-16 16:00: Diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system (Brian Fry, University of Melbourne) 2008-10-16 16:00: Can I be your disruption-tolerant friend? (Tristan Henderson (University of St. Andrews)) 2008-10-16 16:00: Consider the mother as a pressure vessel: Adventures in Bioengineering and Obstetrics (Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering, Cambridge) 2008-10-16 16:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-16 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Speakers to be confirmed) 2008-10-16 20:00: Gods, Devils and Alcohol - Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature (Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry) 2008-10-17 12:00: CANCELLED- NLIP SEMINAR 17th OCTOBER (Speaker to be confirmed) 2008-10-17 13:15: Mechanisms controlling cell fate specification of pluripotent stem cells (Ludovic Vallier - Dept of Surgery Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine University of Cambridge) 2008-10-17 14:00: I) A homogenization model for particulate composites; II) Spherical indentation of poroelastic layers (Dr Matteo Galli, CUED) 2008-10-17 14:00: Learning to Control (Dr Carl Edward Rasmussen (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-17 16:00: Novel Ways of Describing Complex Fluid Flow: Curvature, Topology, and Stretching Fields (Jerry Gollub, Haverford/Upenn and DAMTP) 2008-10-20 19:30: "Intelligence and the Living Cell": Adaptive behaviour and decision-making by single cells (Professor Brian J Ford (President of CSAR)) 2008-10-21 14:00: Computational analysis of the connection between cell cycle and circadian rhythm (Judit Zámborszky, CoSBi) 2008-10-21 14:30: Multiply robust estimation of statistical interaction parameters (Stijn Vansteelandt, University of Ghent, Belgium) 2008-10-21 15:00: Context in human robot interaction (Thomas Kollar (MIT)) 2008-10-22 13:00: Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's Coalescent (Dr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2008-10-22 14:00: What makes cellular decisions irreversible? (Prof. Béla Novák, University of Oxford) 2008-10-22 17:00: Into the Unknown: Medieval Travellers, Real and Imaginary (Prof James Montgomery, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) 2008-10-23 14:00: Approximating the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Between GMMs (Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-23 14:30: "Transcriptional Silencing and lineage commitment in Pluripotent cells" (Dr Brian Hendrich, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge) 2008-10-23 16:00: Evolution of the central nervous system in animals: a cell type comparative approach (Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg) 2008-10-23 16:00: Synaptic specificity in the visual system (Josh Sanes, Harvard University) 2008-10-23 16:00: Usage of FPGA for Passive Network Monitoring (Martin Zadnik (Brno University of Technology)) 2008-10-23 17:00: China: The World's Only Super-Power in the Late First Millennium (Prof David McMullen, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) 2008-10-24 12:00: Statistical anaphora resolution in biomedical texts (Caroline Gasperin, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-24 13:15: Modelling the vertebrate melanocyte - how exactly do neural crest cells go black? (Robert Kelsh - Dept of Biology and Biochemistry University of Bath) 2008-10-24 14:00: On computational strategies for fluid-structure interaction: Why some algorithms fail? (Professor D Peric, University of Swansea) 2008-10-24 16:00: Formation of Multiple Zonal Jets in the Ocean (Pavel Berloff, WHOI and ICL) 2008-10-24 17:00: Cambridge and the Meaning of Life (Prof Alan Macfarlane, Dept of Social Anthropology) 2008-10-27 16:30: Neurotransmitter signalling to oligodendrocytes and their precursors: its role in oligodendrocyte development and white matter disease (Prof. David Attwell, University College London) 2008-10-27 17:30: Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing (Professor Ian Hutchings FREng, Institute for Manufacturing) 2008-10-27 17:30: What's the point of economics? (Evan Davis, BBC Today presenter) 2008-10-27 18:30: PhD or not PhD? (PhD students (Cambridge)) 2008-10-28 11:00: Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III) (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-28 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Aldo Faisal (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-29 14:15: Power allocation in delay-limited wireless channels (Dr Albert Guillen i Fabregas, CUED) 2008-10-29 15:00: Simultaneous Determination of Protein Structure and Dynamics (Dr. Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-29 16:15: Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity (Professor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia) 2008-10-29 18:00: Millennia of Colour Making (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute) 2008-10-30 14:00: Knows What It Knows: A Framework For Self-Aware Learning (Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-30 14:30: "Engineering Self-Orgonization and electical signaling in Bacteria using standardized Genetic Parts" (iGem, International Genetically Engineered Machine, Cambridge Genetic Department.) 2008-10-30 16:00: Sensing, Understanding and Modelling People using Mobile Phones (Mirco Musolesi (University of Cambridge)) 2008-10-30 16:00: Axons, ions and injury: why synaptic machinery is present in your white matter and what it means for your chances during stroke (Robert Fern, University of Leicester) 2008-10-30 16:00: Segregation of cell fate in C. elegans embryos (Carrie Cowan, IMP Vienna) 2008-10-30 17:00: Geometric PDE (Prof Tobias Colding (MIT)) 2008-10-30 17:00: What's Left of Culture and Society? (Prof Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary, University of London) 2008-10-30 17:15: The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible? (Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University) 2008-10-30 19:00: Human Evolution: past, present and future (Prof Robert Foley, Dept of Biological Anthropology) 2008-10-31 12:15: Infinite Hidden Markov Models and Applications in NLP (Jurgen van Gael, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2008-10-31 13:15: Wnt signalling and cell fate decisions in stem cell populations (Penny Hayward - Dept of Genetics University of Cambridge) 2008-10-31 14:00: Measurement of coronary artery stiffness (Dr M P F Sutcliffe, CUED) 2008-10-31 14:00: Input-Output Controllability Analysis and Control Structure Selection (Professor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)) 2008-10-31 14:15: Biological Photonics: Controlling the Flow of Colour (Dr Peter Vukusic, School of Physics, University of Exeter) 2008-10-31 16:00: On Precessional Dynamos (Paul Roberts, UCLA) 2008-11-03 19:30: "Something’s come up": The Discovery of New Drugs, (including Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra) (Dr Simon Campbell CBE (Former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Former Pfizer Senior Vice-President for Discovery)) 2008-11-04 17:00: Particle Hunting at CERN (Dr Ben Allanach DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-05 15:00: Type 1 Diabetes research, before and after association studies (Vincent Plagnol, CIMR, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-05 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science? (Professor Sir John Sulston FRS) 2008-11-06 14:30: Point Process Intensity Estimation with GP's (Yunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-06 14:30: 'Intimate Encounters and Dangerous Liaisons: Spatial Organization of Transcription in the Mammalian Nucleus' (Cameron Osborne, Babraham Institute.) 2008-11-06 16:00: Controlling neural stem cell fates in the Drosophila optic lobe (Boris Egger, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-06 16:00: Motor learning and the cerebellum: more of those blinking bunnies (Steve Edgley, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-06 16:00: Optimal probing for packet networks through Design of Experiments for Markov Chains (Ben Parker, Queen Mary, University of London) 2008-11-06 16:00: West Indian mammal extinctions: how much do we know? (Sam Turvey, Institute of Zoology London) 2008-11-06 19:00: Fireworks and Waterworks! Lecture & demonstration. (Dr Andy Szydlo, Highgate School, London) 2008-11-07 13:15: Non-catalytic roles for the maintenance methyltransferase, XDnmt1, in development and disease (Richard Meehan - MRC Human Genetics Unit Western Gen Hospital Edinburgh) 2008-11-07 14:00: Optimal Control behind the Passive Dynamic Walking? (Dr Kentaro Hirata (Nara Institude of Science and Technology, visiting scholar at CUED)) 2008-11-07 14:15: Designing Molecular Swimmers (Prof. Ramin Golestanian, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield) 2008-11-07 14:30: Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration (Professor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge) 2008-11-07 16:00: Fragmentation (Emmanuel Villermaux, IRPHE Marseille) 2008-11-10 17:30: Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals (Professor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk) 2008-11-10 19:00: "Personal genomics, expectations and democracy" (Dr Adam Hedgecoe) 2008-11-11 14:30: Modeling relationships between food intakes and health-related outcomes: zero-inflated data subject to measurement error (Laurence Freedman, Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, Sheba Medical Center, Israel) 2008-11-11 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-12 11:00: Machine learning based approaches for decision & control under uncertainties (in electric power systems) (Professor Louis Wehenkel (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liege)) 2008-11-12 13:00: Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankings (Dr Marina Meila (University of Washington)) 2008-11-12 14:15: Bayesians turn to experts for advice! (Dr Steven de Rooij, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-12 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Kojiro Yano) 2008-11-13 14:00: Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models (Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-13 14:30: "DNA repair in archaea: insights into mechanisms of homologous recombination" (Dr Thorsten Allers, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham) 2008-11-13 16:00: Macroecology of the oceans (Simon Jennings, CEFAS Lowestoft) 2008-11-13 16:00: Using Fair DHTs for Location Aware Service Discovery (Carmen Guerrero (University of Madrid)) 2008-11-13 16:00: Making new motor neurons in the spinal cord of zebrafish (Catherina Becker, University of Edinburgh) 2008-11-13 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Speakers to be confirmed) 2008-11-14 12:00: Adapting a WSJ-trained Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to New Domains (Laura Rimell, Oxford University) 2008-11-14 13:15: How to build a bridal chamber: development of the thalamus (Steffen Scholpp - MRC Centre for Developmental Biology King’s College Londo) 2008-11-14 14:00: Multi-field coupling strategies for large scale problems involving multi-fracturing solids and particulate media (Professor R Owen, University of Swansea) 2008-11-14 14:00: Stochasticity and bistability in the lac operon (Dr Nicholas Ross (CUED)) 2008-11-14 14:15: Rare events and the flipping of genetic switches (Dr Rosalind Allen, School of Physics, University of Edinburgh) 2008-11-14 16:00: Transition to Turbulence in Pipe Flow (Tom Mullin, Manchester) 2008-11-17 16:30: Making an effort to listen: mechanical amplification by myosin molecules and ion channels in hair cells of the inner ear (Prof. James Hudspeth, Rockefeller University) 2008-11-17 19:30: “What goes round comes round” Making wind turbines from renewable materials (Dr Jim Platts (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-18 14:00: Colonies of Synchronizing Agents: Computability and Robustness (Radu Mardare, CoSBi) 2008-11-19 11:00: Exactness and Approximation of the Stochastic Simulation Algorithm (Ivan Mura, CoSBi) 2008-11-19 15:00: " The dynamics of parasite-mediated competition" (Olivier Restif, CIDC, The Veterinary School, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-20 14:00: Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Rank Data (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-20 14:30: "Mechanisms of synaptic communication: Vesicle traffic and Neuronal disease" (Dr Patrik Verstreken, Dept of Molecular and Developmental Genetics, K.U. Leuven.) 2008-11-20 16:00: Spread-Spectrum Computation (Derek Murray (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-20 16:00: Disease, experiment and physiology (James Fitzsimons, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-20 16:00: Measuring osmotic modulation of synaptic responses (Richard Dyball, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-20 16:00: Causes and consequences of avian personality differences (Kees van Oers, Netherlands Institute of Ecology) 2008-11-21 12:15: Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and Generation (Francois Mairesse, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2008-11-21 13:15: In vivo analysis of morphogenesis in cultured imaginal discs: A new role for Myosin II (Luis M. Escudero - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge) 2008-11-21 14:00: Reactive Steels: - the making of calm welds (Professor H Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy) 2008-11-21 16:00: Mathematical Modeling for Medicine, Sports, and the Environment (Alfio Quarteroni, EPFL, Lausanne and MOX, Politecnico di Milano) 2008-11-24 16:30: Building Neural Representations of Habits (Prof. Ann Graybiel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2008-11-24 17:30: All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others (Dr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute) 2008-11-24 20:00: "Mysteries and Mechanisms of General Anaesthesia" (Prof. Nick Franks) 2008-11-25 14:00: Hardness Ratios (Yue Wu) 2008-11-25 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ian Howard (University of Cambridge)) 2008-11-26 14:00: From Medical Images to Virtual Physiological Humans (Prof. Nicolas Ayache, INRIA) 2008-11-26 15:00: "Studying human variation from whole genome sequence data". (Richard Durbin, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Centre) 2008-11-27 14:00: Bayesian Reinforcement Learning in Continuous POMDPs (Milica Gasic (University of Cambridge) 2008-11-27 14:30: Lost connections: a tale of wandering centrosomes. (Fanni Gergely, Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Research Institute.) 2008-11-27 16:00: Deep Networks for Vision (Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto)) 2008-11-27 16:00: Complex mechanisms of simple memories: from miRNAs to (perhaps) attention (Mani Ramaswami, Trinity College, Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin) 2008-11-27 16:00: Inter-domain rendezvous (Mikko Sarela (Ericsson Research)) 2008-11-27 16:00: Hominoid ancestral population sizes and human-chimpanzee speciation (Ziheng Yang, UCL) 2008-11-27 17:15: Understanding Environmental Risk Perceptions: Climate Change, Energy Choices and Public Engagement with Science (Nick Pidgeon, Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University and ESRC Climate Change Professorial Fellow) 2008-11-27 19:00: OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEM (David Haslam, MB BS, National Obesity Forum) 2008-11-28 13:15: Transcriptional networks in vertebrate mesoderm formation (Fiona Wardle - Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge) 2008-11-28 14:00: Landmines in the lab: experimental techniques for investigating high velocity sand impacts (Dr G McShane, CUED) 2008-11-28 14:15: A singular view of DNA transactions (Dr Gijs Wuite, Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2008-11-28 16:00: Fusion: The Technical Challenges (Steven Cowley, UKAEA Culham Division) 2008-12-01 16:30: Parallel Processing in the Mammalian Retina (Prof. Heinz Waessle, Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt) 2008-12-01 19:30: Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Prof David J C Mackay (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge)) 2008-12-02 14:30: Bayesian meta-analysis of genetic association studies using Stata (John Thompson, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester) 2008-12-04 10:00: Intellectual Property Strategies for Service and Support (Kenneth Owens, The Boeing Company) 2008-12-04 14:00: An Introduction to Relational Learning (Ricardo Silva (UCL Statistics)) 2008-12-04 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Magda Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge) 2008-12-04 16:00: Sex ratios and rarity in birds: an unhappy balance? (Paul Donald, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) 2008-12-05 14:00: Onset of cavitation in compressible, isotropic, hyperelastic solids (Oscar Lopez-Pamies, Department of Mechanical Engineering State University of New York at Stony Brook) 2008-12-05 14:00: Mondrian Processes (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2008-12-05 14:15: Understanding shape and traction of adherent cells (Prof. Ulrich Schwarz, University of Karlsruhe & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & University of Heidelberg, Germany) 2008-12-05 16:00: Eukaryotic chemoattractant gradient sensing: microfluidic experiments and theory (Eberhard Bodenschatz, MPI Gottingen) 2008-12-08 16:30: SNAREs, synaptotagmin, and fusion pores (Meyer Jackson, Dept. of Physiology, University of Wisconsin) 2008-12-09 14:30: The Error Statistical Philosophy (Professor Deborah G. Mayo, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) 2008-12-10 11:00: Mobile Content-Sharing Applications (Daniele Quercia, University College London) 2008-12-11 13:00: NIPS Offline Conference (Machine Learning Across Cambridge) 2008-12-11 17:30: Provisional: Christmas Quiz (Speakers to be confirmed) 2008-12-11 19:00: BIOFUELS – A VIABLE APPROACH TO CARBON REDUCTION? (Dr Bruce Tofield, CRed, UEA Norwich) 2008-12-12 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells (SPEAKERS: Peter Andrews, Robin Lovell-Badge, James Byrne, Ian Chambers, Kevin Eggan, Martin Evans, Stephen Minger, Alison Murdoch and Kevin Shakesheff, CHAIRED BY: Chris Graham and Richard Gardiner, ORGANISERS: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon) 2008-12-15 13:00: Model-based EM Source Separation and Localization in Reverberant Mixtures (Michael Mandel, Columbia University) 2008-12-16 09:00: Physics of Living Matter 3 (registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you) 2008-12-16 10:00: Imaging biology in the cancer patient (Professor Kevin Brindle Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK) 2008-12-16 10:30: Novel Photonics for the Biomedical Sciences (Professor Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK) 2008-12-16 11:00: Mechanical manipulation of single molecules in nanopores (Dr Ulrich Keyser, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany) 2008-12-16 12:00: New materials for regenerative medicine applications (Professor Kevin Shakesheff, Professor of Advanced Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering, School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK) 2008-12-16 13:30: Medical Materials (Dr Ruth Cameron, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK) 2008-12-16 14:00: Of mice, men, and microscopes: Watching the brain dynamics of motor control at the cellular scale in behaving subjects (Dr Mark Schnitzer, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA) 2008-12-16 14:30: Reverse engineering the brain: what photons and electrons can tell us about thought. (Professor Winfried Denk, Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research, Biomedizinische Optuik, Germany) 2008-12-16 15:00: Computer modelling of the heart (Professor Denis Noble, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford UK) 2008-12-16 16:00: GRAND OPENING of the Physics of Medicine Building (Professor Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge Professor Sir Aaron Klug, MRC LMB, Cambridge Professor David Delpy, Chief Executive of EPSRC) 2008-12-17 09:00: Glimpses of quantum mechanics in biology (Professor Mike Payne, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK) 2008-12-17 09:30: DNA: Not just a double helix (Dr Julian Huppert, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK) 2008-12-17 10:00: Antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies (Professor David A Lomas, Department of Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK) 2008-12-17 11:00: Excitable systems in cell populations (Dr. Jordi Garcia Ojalvo, Polytechnical University of Barcelona, Spain) 2008-12-17 11:30: Multipotency and Cell Fate decision on the Epigenetic Landscape: From Metaphor to Molecules and Mathematical Model (Dr Sui Huang, Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada) 2008-12-17 12:00: Patterns of stem and progenitor cell fate in adult tissues (Professor Ben Simons, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK) 2008-12-17 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Krystyne J. Van Vliet, Department of Materials Science & Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2008-12-17 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Damian Brunner, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany) 2008-12-17 15:00: Shape, Polarity and Individuation of Animal Cells (Dr Michel Bornens, Institute Curie, France) 2008-12-17 16:00: L. Bragg lecture: "Single-Molecule Approach for Biochemistry, Molecular Biology ... and Beyond" (Professor Sunney Xie, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology University of Harvard) 2009-01-07 11:00: Deadlock Immunity: Teaching Systems How To Defend Against Deadlocks (George Candea (EPFL)) 2009-01-07 16:00: DryadLINQ: distributed data-parallel computing using a high-level language (Michael Isard (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley)) 2009-01-08 16:00: Navigation and collision avoidance for aircraft and cars (Fredrik Gustaffson, Linkoping University) 2009-01-13 14:00: HMMs for Protein Sequencing from Mass Spectrometry Data (Dr Bernd Fischer (EBI)) 2009-01-13 17:00: ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NECESSITIES AND PRIORITIES (Professor Martin Parry, Chair, IPCC's Task Group on Scenarios for Climate Impact Assessment) 2009-01-13 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Nikon Rasumov (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-15 14:00: Probabalistic Inference for solving (PO)MDPs (Finale Doshi (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-15 14:30: "Function of SRF and Mef2 transcription factors homologues during development of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum". (Dr Leandro Sastre - CSIC/UAM, Madrid.) 2009-01-15 16:00: The Music of Life: metaphors for 21st century biology (Denis Noble, University of Oxford) 2009-01-16 14:00: Modularity, polyrhythms, and what robotics and control may yet learn from the brain (Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine (Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, MIT)) 2009-01-16 14:00: Recent Advances in Strain Gradient Plasticity Theory (Professor N A Fleck and Dr M I Idiart, CUED) 2009-01-16 14:15: Experiments on cytoskeletal and “Recombinase” motors (Dr Giovanni Cappello, Institut Curie, France) 2009-01-16 16:00: Morphogenesis of Thin Growing Tissues (Martine Ben-Amar, ENS Paris) 2009-01-16 17:30: The Making of the Fittest (Professor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin) 2009-01-19 14:00: Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging Software (Laura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken)) 2009-01-19 14:30: How to decipher fracture surfaces and crackling noise (Dr Laurent Ponson, CalTech) 2009-01-19 16:30: A genetic approach to understanding the molecular basis of auditory function (Prof. Karen Steel, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2009-01-19 19:30: "We know who you are, from the way you sound" Computer voice-recognition systems and what they can do (Dr Kirsty McDougall (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge) 2009-01-20 17:00: RETHINKING PERSONAL MOBILITY: POLICY, TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS THINKING (Dr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy and Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission) 2009-01-21 11:00: BlenX, a language based approach for modelling biological systems (Roberto Larcher, CoSBi) 2009-01-21 13:00: The Block Diagonal Infinite Hidden Markov Model (Tom Stepleton (CMU)) 2009-01-21 14:00: On Automatic Quantitative Verification of Biological Systems (Paolo Ballarini, CoSBi) 2009-01-21 14:15: Markov Random Fields for Classification in High Dimensional Spaces with Application to fMRI Analysis (Dr Avishy Carmi, CUED) 2009-01-21 15:00: Pathogen Genome Sequencing at the Sanger Institute (Dr. Arnab Pain) 2009-01-22 14:00: A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model based on Pitman-Yor Processes (Matt Shannon (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-22 14:30: Gene-lifestyle interaction in type 2 diabetes (Prof. Nick Wareham - Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital.) 2009-01-22 16:00: Some evolutionary and neurophysiological aspects of hearing in bush crickets (Andreas Stumpner, Uni-Goettingen) 2009-01-22 16:00: Tonic inhibition regulates the transfer of sensory information through the cerebellar cortex (Ian Duguid) 2009-01-22 17:15: Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B? (Dr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP) 2009-01-23 13:15: Regulation of Dpp signalling in Drosophila (Hilary Ashe - Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester) 2009-01-23 14:15: Canceled (Dr James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre , University of Nottingham) 2009-01-23 14:30: Domain switching in ferroelectric perovskites and applications (Professor Kaushik Bhattcharya, CalTech) 2009-01-23 14:30: Domain Switching in Ferroelectric Perovskites and Applications (Kaushik Bhattacharya (CalTech)) 2009-01-23 16:00: Problems in Very Viscous Convection (John R. Lister, DAMTP) 2009-01-23 17:30: Darwin's Intellectual Development (Professor Janet Browne, Harvard University) 2009-01-26 17:30: G I Taylor Lecture - How metals can fall apart: Vision, observation and G I Taylor (Professor L M Brown FRS, Department of Physics) 2009-01-26 20:00: All about stress in plants, from oxidative stress to programmed cell death. (Dr Ilse Kranner) 2009-01-27 14:30: Estimating the impact of school closure on influenza transmission from sentinel data (Simon Cauchemez, Imperial College London) 2009-01-27 17:00: ADAPTATION IN POOR COUNTRIES (Dr Flavio Comim, Senior Economist, United Nations Development Programme, Brazil and CSC/VHI, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge) 2009-01-27 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Arjun Bharioke, Cambridge University) 2009-01-28 15:00: Better multiple sequence alignment by being phylogeny-aware, and better base calling from next-generation sequencers (Nick Goldman (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute)) 2009-01-28 18:00: The role of engineering in entering the ecological age (Peter Head OBE FREng FRSA Director of Sustainability, Arup) 2009-01-29 14:00: Distributed Computing for Machine Learning (Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-29 14:30: Building bridges between genes, brains and language. (Dr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.) 2009-01-29 16:00: New insights into neurogenic hypertension (Julian Paton, University of Bristol) 2009-01-29 16:00: The mammalian middle ear: development, evolution and hearing defects (Abigail Tucker, Kings College London) 2009-01-29 16:30: How to do a Systems PhD (Steven Hand (University of Cambridge)) 2009-01-30 12:00: Almost-unsupervised multilingual sentiment analysis (John Carroll - University of Sussex) 2009-01-30 13:00: Extending the Affinity Propagation Model (Inmar Givoni (University of Toronto)) 2009-01-30 13:15: Intercellular signalling and intracellular transport during axis specification in Drosophila (Isabel Palacios - Department of Zoology University of Cambridge) 2009-01-30 14:00: Modelling displacive and diffusive transformations during heat treatment of steels (Mr Mirko Miraldi, University of Bologna) 2009-01-30 16:00: Thin Film Electrohydrodynamics (Demetrios Papageorgiou, Imperial College London) 2009-01-30 17:30: Global Darwin (Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-02 16:30: From Cell Signaling to Function in Large-Scale Neural Networks (Prof. Jorn Hounsgaard, University of Copenhagen) 2009-02-02 19:00: Whether a creation-based religion can be consistent with science and evolution (Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the executive vice president of the Orthodox) 2009-02-02 20:00: Forensic Genetics: application to crime scene investigation and the identification of human remains. (Dr William Goodwin (University of Central Lancashire)) 2009-02-03 16:15: Call-by-push-value (part 1) (Paul Levy, University of Birmingham (visiting Cambridge until March 15)) 2009-02-04 14:00: Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology (Various speakers) 2009-02-04 14:15: Compressed sensing: some theory, algorithms and applications (Prof Mike Davies, University of Edinburgh) 2009-02-04 16:15: Call-by-push-value (part 2) (Paul Levy, University of Birmingham (visiting Cambridge until March 15)) 2009-02-04 18:00: Sustainable Development - great green dream or impossible ambition? (Tony Juniper, former Director of Friends of the Earth) 2009-02-05 14:00: Divergence measures and message passing - CANCELLED (David Knowles (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-05 14:30: The interplay of Notch with Shh and Wnt signalling in mesoderm development. (Dr Kim Dale - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.) 2009-02-05 16:00: CANCELLED due to inclement weather (Andy Radford, Univ Bristol) 2009-02-05 17:00: INTEGRATING ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONS (Professor Julian Hunt (Lord Hunt of Chesterton), Professor of Climate Modelling, University College, London) 2009-02-06 12:00: ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks (Brian Harrington, University of Oxford) 2009-02-06 13:15: Molecular basis of development and degeneration of sensory hair cells in deafness (Karen Steel - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Hinxton, Cambridge) 2009-02-06 14:00: Control systems for Maglev and active railway suspensions (Professor Roger Goodall (Head of Systems Research Division, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University)) 2009-02-06 14:00: Fracture mechanics of brittle lattice materials (Mr Ignacio Quintana, CUED) 2009-02-06 14:15: Forms and Flows of Ferrofluids (Dr Reinhard Richter, Experimentalphysik 5, Universität Bayreuth, Germany) 2009-02-06 16:00: Fluid Dynamics in Developmental Biology (Julyan Cartwright, CSIC-Universidad de Granada) 2009-02-06 17:30: Darwin in the Literary World (Professor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia) 2009-02-09 16:30: Measuring and modelling the development of ordered nerve connections (Prof. David Willshaw, University of Edinburgh) 2009-02-09 17:30: Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development? (Dr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2009-02-09 20:00: Parasites, people and policy: Infectious diseases and millenium development goals. (Lord Robert May (Oxford)) 2009-02-10 17:00: SMARTLIFE: GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE (David Arkell, Director, SmartLIFE and Head of Innovation & Partnerships, Cambridgeshire County Council) 2009-02-10 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-11 11:30: Hydrodynamic simulation of multicellular embryo invagination and its biological predictions (Philippe-Alexandre Pouille, Institut Curie, Paris) 2009-02-11 18:00: Water, health and sustainable development (Dr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation) 2009-02-12 14:00: Hybrid of Generative and Discriminative Models (Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-12 14:30: "Molecular mechanisms of microtubule associated protein tau and alpha-synuclein in neurodegenerative disease" (Dr Richard Wade-Martins - University of Oxford.) 2009-02-12 16:00: Exploring the hair follicle as an unconventional, but highly instructive tool for neuroendocrine research (Ralf Paus, Uni-Luebeck, University of Manchester) 2009-02-12 16:00: Plasticity, Regeneration and Repair of Spinal Cord Injury (James Fawcett, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair) 2009-02-12 16:00: Wedge: Splitting Applications into Reduced-Privilege Compartments (Andrea Bittau (UCL)) 2009-02-12 16:45: Thyroid hormone transporter proteins: biology and insights from human disorders (Professor Theo Visser, Rotterdam) 2009-02-12 17:00: The Maths of Diamonds, Race Fixing, Art Theft, and Professor Moriarty (Professor John D. Barrow, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-12 17:15: Darwin in his time - and in ours (Professor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) 2009-02-13 13:15: Differential chromatin marking of introns and expressed exons by H3K36me3 (Julie Ahringer - The Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge) 2009-02-13 14:00: R&D in Control & Optimization in ABB Corporate Research (Dr Alf Isaksson (ABB Corporate Research)) 2009-02-13 14:00: Moving interfaces in solids: from conservative lattice models to macroscopic dissipation (Dr Johannes Zimmer, University of Bath) 2009-02-13 16:00: From hard grains to soft bubbles - response and flow of materials near the jamming point (Wim van Saarloos, Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden) 2009-02-13 17:30: Darwin and Human Society (Professor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse) 2009-02-16 00:00: CANCELLED !!! "Uncovering and Exploiting Chinks in Cancer's Armour" - CANCELLED !!! (Prof Alan Ashworth (Institute of Cancer Research Director – London)) 2009-02-16 15:00: Linked Oscillators in Circadian Biology (Dr. Alex Webb (Plant Sciences)) 2009-02-16 19:30: "Genetics and Cancer" The BRCA2 gene (discovered by Professor Stratton and his team), and its involvement in human breast and prostate cancer (Professor Michael Stratton (Deputy Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Head of the Cancer Genome Project)) 2009-02-17 14:00: Stochastic control as an inference problem (Prof. Bert Kappen (University of Nijmegen)) 2009-02-17 17:00: CREATING NEW AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES (Professor Peter Guthrie, Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, Cambridge; Fellow, St Edmund’s College) 2009-02-17 17:00: Cambridge and the Environment (Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge) 2009-02-18 14:15: Visual Signal Processing Algorithms in Post Production (Dr Anil Kokaram, Trinity College Dublin and Simon Robinson, Chief Engineer, The Foundry) 2009-02-18 18:00: A sustainable technology strategy for engineers (Dr Karel Muldur, TU Delft The Netherlands) 2009-02-19 14:00: Large Margin Training of Hidden Markov Models (Anton Ragni) 2009-02-19 14:30: "Systems biology of genetic interactions in yeast" (Dr Balazs Papp - Biological Research Center, Szeged.) 2009-02-19 16:00: RNA-based guidance in axons (Christine Holt, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2009-02-19 16:00: Olfactory specialist D. sechellia avoids costly appetitive learning (Teun Dekker, SLU Alnarp, Sweden) 2009-02-19 16:00: IRONModel: robust performance models in the wild (Eno Thereska (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2009-02-19 19:00: IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTS (Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison-MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Research Centre, Cambridge) 2009-02-20 11:00: Generalization in Learning (Yevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University)) 2009-02-20 12:00: Dialogue Act Prediction Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammar Induction (Jeroen Geertzen, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-20 13:15: Sex Determination Mechanisms in Zebrafish (John Postlethwait - Institute of Neuroscience University of Oregon) 2009-02-20 14:00: Analytical solutions, duality and symmetry in constrained control and estimation (Dr Jose De Dona (The University of Newcastle, Australia--on study leave during 2008/2009 at Ecole des Mines de Paris, France)) 2009-02-20 14:00: Reticulated tubes: effective elastic properties and actuation response (Dr Son Mai Phu, CUED) 2009-02-20 16:00: Viscous Gravity Currents (Daisuke Takagi, DAMTP) 2009-02-20 17:30: Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity (Professor Craig Moritz, University of California) 2009-02-23 16:30: Useful signals from motor cortex (Prof. Andrew Schwartz, University of Pittsburgh) 2009-02-23 17:30: The biomechanics of Spiderman: how insects walk on the ceiling (Dr Walter Federle, Department of Zoology) 2009-02-23 19:00: How moral is bioethics? (Prof Lewis Wolpert, UCL) 2009-02-24 10:00: Mind reading by machine learning: an ideal observer based analysis of cognitive scientific experiments (Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Collegium Budapest)) 2009-02-24 14:30: Lessons from livestock - some things animal movements can tell us about social networks in epidemiology (Rowland Kao, University of Glasgow) 2009-02-24 17:00: CAN WE ADAPT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN TIME? (Professor Michael Kelly, Prince Philip Professor, Cambridge; Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government, London) 2009-02-24 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-25 14:15: Filter Design with Secrecy Constraints (Dr Miguel R. D. Rodrigues, University of Porto) 2009-02-25 17:00: The Mathematics of Evolutionary Biology (Professor Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge) 2009-02-25 18:00: Sustainability in the resources sector (Paul Skinner Chairman Rio Tinto) 2009-02-25 19:30: Alternatives to Fossil Fuels (David MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU) 2009-02-26 14:00: Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models (Cont) (Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge)) 2009-02-26 14:30: "Phospho-dependent Activation and Silencing of the Spindle Checkpoint" (Dr Kevin Hardwick - WTC for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh.) 2009-02-26 16:00: Cardiac t-tubules: Ca2+ handling microdomains (Clive Orchard, University of Bristol) 2009-02-26 16:00: Control of microtubule length by depolymerizing kinesins (Joe Howard, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden) 2009-02-26 16:00: Wireless Networks: Overcoming the Challenges, Leveraging the Opportunities (Kyle Jamieson (UCL)) 2009-02-26 16:00: An Introduction to Transcriptomics (Prof Brendan Frey (University of Toronto)) 2009-02-27 12:00: A Tale of Two Parsers: investigating and combining graph-based and transition-based dependency parsing using beam-search (Yue Zhang, University of Oxford) 2009-02-27 13:15: Regulatory logic for cell specification during early embryogenesis (Paola Oliveri - University College London) 2009-02-27 14:00: Collapse of hollow pyramidal lattice material as a sandwich core (Mr Shivnandan Pingle, CUED) 2009-02-27 14:15: The Molecular Mechanism of Nuclear Protein Import (Dr Murray Stewart, MRC-LMB, Cambridge) 2009-02-27 16:00: The Effects of Wind on Plants: Mechanical Interactions (Emmanuel de Langre, LadHyX) 2009-02-27 17:30: Is Human Evolution Over? (Professor Steve Jones, University College London) 2009-03-01 16:00: Lent Internal Symposium 2009 (Joshua R. Cook, Will Smiley, Oleksandr Poplavskyy, Joseph C. Bonneau, University of Cambridge) 2009-03-02 16:30: Amazing TRP channels: from Aristotle´s five senses to TRPpathies (Prof. Bernd Nilius, University of Leuven) 2009-03-02 18:00: Vaccine Development in the Year 2100 (Dr. James P. Nataro, University of Maryland.) 2009-03-02 19:30: "Where is it safe to go on holiday?" Antigenic Cartography; a mathematical method for mapping the spread of viruses (Professor Derek Smith (Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-03 16:00: Persistent Content-based Information Dissemination in Hybrid Vehicular Networks (Ilias Leontiadis (UCL)) 2009-03-03 17:00: RESPONDING TO CHANGES IN NATURE (Chris Smith (Lord Smith of Finsbury), Chairman of the Environment Agency; former MP and Cabinet Minister; former President Cambridge Union Society) 2009-03-03 17:00: The Four Colour Theorem (Professor Imre Leader) 2009-03-04 14:15: Learning transformational invariants from natural movies (Bruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley) 2009-03-04 15:30: Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport (Dr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK) 2009-03-04 17:00: The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy (Nigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College) 2009-03-05 14:00: The Convex Concave Procedure (Frederik Eaton (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-05 14:30: How does centralspindlin form microtubule bundles and accumulate on them during cytokinesis. (Dr Masanori Mishima - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University.) 2009-03-05 16:00: Dendrite development - insights from insects (Darren Williams, Kings College London) 2009-03-05 16:00: G L Brown prize lecture: "And the beat goes on. The cardiac conduction system: the wiring of the heart" (Mark Boyett, University of Manchester) 2009-03-05 18:40: Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery (A Few Places Now Available!) (Ben Shneiderman, Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland) 2009-03-06 12:00: Disambiguation of Biomedical Text (Mark Stevenson - Sheffield University) 2009-03-06 13:15: How does smell turn into behaviour? (Gregory Jefferis - Division of Neurobiology LMB Cambridge) 2009-03-06 14:00: Using Entropy in Materials Design (Professor Daan Frenkel, Department of Chemistry) 2009-03-06 14:00: Securing Virtual Machine Monitors: What is Needed? (Paul Karger (IBM Research - Watson)) 2009-03-06 14:15: Identification of structure-conserving correlated motions in the β-sheet of ubiquitin (Xavier Salvatella, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, IRB Barcelona) 2009-03-06 15:00: Quasi-linear Sensor Management (Marco Huber (University of Karlsruhe)) 2009-03-06 16:00: The Origin of Turbulence in Astrophysical Discs: HD and MHD Instabilities Revisited (Dr Geoffroy Lesur (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-06 17:30: The Boundaries of Darwinism (Professor John Dupre, University of Exeter) 2009-03-09 17:30: Machines that see (Professor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research) 2009-03-09 18:00: Why do we like to eat? (Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrookes) 2009-03-09 19:00: 'Orphan diseases' and research collaborations in global health innovation (Dr Monica Konrad, Director of PLACEB-O) 2009-03-09 20:00: "Plant-insect-interactions to drug development" (Prof Monique Simmonds, Kew Garden, London) 2009-03-09 20:00: Can science beat terrorism? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-03-10 14:00: Visual systems biology: design, understand, organize (Lorenzo Dematté, CoSBi) 2009-03-10 14:30: Hypothesis testing and estimation in a group sequential phase II/III clinical trial (Nigel Stallard, University of Warwick) 2009-03-10 15:00: Shrinkage regression for multivariate inference with missing data, with an application to portfolio balancing (Robert B. Gramacy (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-10 17:00: THE POPULATION FACTOR- HOW DOES IT RELATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE? (Professor Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor, Community Health and Human Development, Berkeley, University of California) 2009-03-10 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Professor Daniel Wolpert ( Department of Engineering)) 2009-03-10 20:00: Darwin in a global context (Professor Jim Secord and Professor John Parker) 2009-03-10 20:00: EESCN question time - stem cell special (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-03-11 11:00: Evolutionary computation: optimization and inference (Michele Forlin, CoSBi) 2009-03-11 17:15: Darwin and Genetics: 1909 and 2009 (Professor Marsha Richmond, Dept of History, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan) 2009-03-11 18:00: Innovating to sustainability (Professor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University) 2009-03-11 18:00: Marshall - one hundred years in Cambridge (Terry Holloway) 2009-03-11 19:30: Making the most of our minds (Sponsored by Science AAAS) 2009-03-11 20:00: "Identifying lipid signals in normal and diseased cells" (Prof Michael Wakelam (Babraham Institute Director)) 2009-03-12 14:00: Bregman Divergences and Machine Learning (Shakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-12 14:00: Value of Information in Asset Management (Sergio Parenzee) 2009-03-12 16:00: Juggling with IPTV… or A GMPLS infrastructure for a better multicast IPTV network (Fernando Ramos (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-12 16:00: Mechanism of microtubule plus-end tracking by EB1 and CLIP-170 elucidated by in vitro reconstitution (Thomas Surrey, EMBL Heidelberg) 2009-03-12 18:00: Cultural Agoraphobia and the Future of the Library: the first Arcadia Lecture (Professor James Boyle, Duke University) 2009-03-12 18:00: How your mobile phone works (Chris Cox) 2009-03-12 18:00: A function of the time: the Cavendish Society and its postprandial proceedings (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-03-12 18:00: A taste of teaching: D&T and Sciences (Elaine Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Science Education and Raza Shah, Subject Lecturer in Design and Technology Education) 2009-03-12 20:00: Darwinspotting in 2009: Are there any real ones out there? (Dr Peter C. Kjærgaard, Visiting Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies) 2009-03-13 14:30: Stability and Plasticity in Structural Frame Behaviour Analysis and Design: Seeking a Conceptual Framework for the Computer Age (Prof Michael Rotter) 2009-03-13 16:00: Superfluid Turbulence at T=0: From Kolmogorov to Kelvin-Wave Cascade (Boris Svistunov, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 2009-03-13 19:30: Sustainable energy - without the hot air (Professor David Mackay) 2009-03-16 18:00: It is rocket science! (Helen Keen) 2009-03-17 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Peter Latham, Gatsby, UCL) 2009-03-17 18:00: Darwin's Islands: In Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos (Dr David Robinson) 2009-03-17 18:00: Carbon neutral communities (Gerard Evenden, Senior Partner, Foster and Partners) 2009-03-17 19:30: Statistics are either dull or wrong:discuss (Professor David Spiegelhalter) 2009-03-18 16:00: Molecular and computational aspects of neuronal motility (Professor Vincent Torre, SISSA, Trieste) 2009-03-18 17:00: Entering the ecological age (Peter Head, Director of Planning and Integrated Urbanism) 2009-03-18 18:00: Quantum anomalies and the origin of time (Professor Shahn Majid) 2009-03-18 18:00: Chemistry saves lives (Dr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer) 2009-03-19 11:30: Metadata Management (Giorgio Gianforme, Università Roma Tre) 2009-03-19 15:00: Mechanical Behaviour of Cells on Tissue Engineering Scaffolds (Professor Lorna J. Gibson, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT) 2009-03-19 16:00: ROAR: Increasing the Flexibility and Performance of Distributed Search (Costin Raiciu (UCL)) 2009-03-19 16:00: Small and beautiful: Alex Hopkins lecture (Professor Brian Johnson) 2009-03-19 17:15: The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back Yard (Dr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario) 2009-03-19 18:00: What is consciousness for? (Chris Frith, Professor in Neuropsychology) 2009-03-19 18:00: The cosmic century; a history of astrophysics and cosmology (Professor Malcolm Longair) 2009-03-19 19:30: Cafe Scientifique: can we read minds? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-03-20 18:00: Quantum (Manjit Kumar) 2009-03-20 18:00: Animals and ourselves (Professor Aubrey Manning) 2009-03-20 20:00: The nature of life - a scientific debate (Professor Lewis Wolpert and Dr Rupert Sheldrake) 2009-03-21 14:00: The subtle science of uncertainty (Professor David Spiegelhalter, DPMMS) 2009-03-23 14:15: Semi-Analytic Modeling of Micro-Defects in an Infinite Semi-Infinite Matrix (Professor Leon Keer (Northwestern University)) 2009-03-24 14:00: On the deduction of chemical reaction rate constants from measurements of time series of concentration (Paola Lecca, CoSBi) 2009-03-24 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Petra Vertes (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-25 11:00: A Framework study of the NF-kB signalling pathway (Adaoha Ihekwaba, CoSBi) 2009-03-25 11:00: Learning from Measurements in Exponential Families (Percy Liang (University of California, Berkeley)) 2009-03-25 15:00: Hybrid DTN-MANET routing in Highly Dynamic Ad-hoc networks (Vania Conan (Thales Communications)) 2009-03-25 17:00: Coding with envelopes, receptive fields and plasticity (André Longtin, University of Ottawa) 2009-03-26 16:00: Pointless Tainting? Evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting (Asia Slowinska (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)) 2009-03-26 16:30: A Runtime System for Software Lock Elision (Amitabha Roy (University of Cambridge)) 2009-03-27 11:00: Magic Squares (Dr Jenny Gage, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge) 2009-03-27 14:00: Overview of Control Systems Research at the Rolls-Royce Control and Systems University Technology Centre. (Professor Haydn Thompson (Programme Manager, Rolls-Royce UTC in Control Systems; Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield)) 2009-03-30 14:15: Classification and Dimensionality Reduction using Convex Class Models (Bill Triggs, Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann and CNRS) 2009-03-31 14:00: KInfer and BetaWB: tools for supporting the modeling workflow of Biological Systems (Alida Palmisano, CoSBi) 2009-04-01 11:00: A parallel perspective of the dynamics of biological reactive systems (Tommaso Mazza, CoSBi) 2009-04-03 14:00: Feedback and Robustness in Population Dynamics (Professor Stuart Townley (School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter)) 2009-04-16 16:00: Delivery Properties of Human Social Networks (Nishanth Sastry (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-20 14:00: ROBUST PRACTICAL OUTPUT TRACKING FOR HIGHLY NONLINEAR SYSTEMS (Professor Hiroshi Inaba (School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Guest Professor, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of the West of England)) 2009-04-21 14:00: Exploiting non-Markovian Bio-Processes within BlenX (Davide Prandi, CoSBi) 2009-04-21 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rainer Engelken (University of Cambridge)) 2009-04-22 11:00: Dynamics of cell cycle transitions (Attila Csikasz-Nagy, CoSBi) 2009-04-22 17:15: Charles Darwin and the pattern of evolution (Professor Richard Fortey FRS) 2009-04-23 10:00: Cambridge Services Alliance (Prof. Andy Neely) 2009-04-23 11:00: TBC (Ben Fry (http://benfry.com/)) 2009-04-23 11:30: Symbolic Shape Analysis (Thomas Wies, EPFL) 2009-04-23 14:00: Hilbert space embedding of probability distributions (Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)) 2009-04-23 14:30: "Evolution of embryonic pluripotency and the early lineages of the mammalian blastocyst". (Dr Miguel Manzanares - CNIC, Madrid) 2009-04-23 16:00: How can lead poisoning of California Condors be prevented? (Rhys Green, University of Cambridge) 2009-04-23 16:00: Glass figures: a role for complex cells in visual processing? (David Berry, University of Cambridge) 2009-04-23 16:00: Glass figures: a role for complex cells in visual processing? (Horace Barlow, University of Cambridge) 2009-04-23 19:00: ART MEETS SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LAPIS LAZULI & ULTRAMARINE (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton-Kerr Institute, Cambridge) 2009-04-24 14:00: Conducting Systematic Literature Reviews (Phillip Woodall) 2009-04-24 14:15: Two-dimensional colloidal systems in optical and magnetic fields (Roel Dullens, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford) 2009-04-24 16:00: Turbomachinery aeroacoustics (Nigel Peake, DAMTP) 2009-04-27 14:30: Individual Prediction in Prostate Cancer Studies Using a Joint Longitudinal-Survival Model (Jeremy Taylor, University of Michigan) 2009-04-27 16:15: Physics and Complexity : An Overview (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) 2009-04-27 16:30: Synaptic mechanisms of neocortical sensory processing (Prof. Carl Petersen, Lausanne) 2009-04-27 19:30: "The Venetians certainly knew about building" The extraordinary and enduring properties of Lime Mortar (Professor Geoff Allen (University of Bristol)) 2009-04-29 16:15: Physics and Complexity : Methodologies (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.) 2009-04-29 18:00: A 21st Century View of National Security (Sir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College and former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service) 2009-04-29 18:30: Learning, Stress and Integrated Brain-functioning (Director, Centre for Brain Consciousness and Cognition, Iowa, USA) 2009-04-30 14:00: Parsing Images the UCLA Way (Tom Stepleton (CMU)) 2009-04-30 14:30: Tales from Irish genetics: from Milesius to Niall of the Nine Hostages. (Prof. Dan Bradley - Trinity College, Dublin) 2009-04-30 16:00: Integrative and systems approaches to osmoregulation in insects (and people) (Julian Dow, University of Glasgow) 2009-04-30 16:00: Epigenetic control of genome function - physiology development and neuroscience of genomic imprinting in mouse (Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge) 2009-04-30 17:15: Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing country (Pavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai) 2009-04-30 17:30: "Shooting War: Ethics in Conflict Photography" (Gary Knight. VII Photo Agency) 2009-05-01 13:15: Integrins: force-responsive connectors for morphogenesis (Nick Brown, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-01 14:00: Gradient systems: overview and recent results (Dr Pierre-Antoine Absil (Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)) 2009-05-01 14:00: Effective constitutive relations for waves in composites and metamaterials (Professor J Willis, DAMTP) 2009-05-01 16:00: Purely elastic instability in free shear layers and its relation to elastic turbulence (Alexander Morozov, University of Edinburgh) 2009-05-01 16:15: Physics and Complexity : Examples (Professor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) 2009-05-05 14:15: Approximate Sparsity Recovery from Noisy Compressed Sensing (Michael Gastpar, UC Berkeley) 2009-05-05 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel Braun (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-06 00:00: William MCDonough (CANCELLED) (William McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle") 2009-05-06 17:00: A Journey in the World of Molecules (Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg) 2009-05-06 17:15: Socrates versus Darwin (Professor David Sedley FBA) 2009-05-07 14:00: The IBM approach to speech separation (Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge)) 2009-05-07 14:30: Integrated analysis of memory phase dynamic in Drosophila (Dr Thomas Preat - CNRS, Paris) 2009-05-07 16:00: Systematic Testing for Dynamically Updatable Software (Michael Hicks (University of Maryland)) 2009-05-07 16:00: Role of the human origin recognition complex ORC in DNA replication (Aloys Schepers, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich) 2009-05-07 16:00: Connexins and carbonic anhydrases: pH regulators in heart and in cancer (Richard Vaughan-Jones, University of Oxford) 2009-05-07 17:00: KAM and Rigidity (Professor Anatole Katok (Penn State University)) 2009-05-08 12:00: BioNLP 2009 event detection task (Andreas Vlachos, Cambridge University) 2009-05-08 13:15: Genetic Specification of Neuronal Circuitry: How Are Different Types of Neurons Made in the Vertebrate Spinal Cord? (Katharine Lewis - PDN University of Cambridge) 2009-05-08 14:00: Sheet metal forming with six components of strain (Dr J Allwood, CUED) 2009-05-08 14:15: Non-equilibrium fluctuations and mechanics of active gels and living cells (Fred Mackintosh, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit) 2009-05-08 16:00: G.K. Batchelor Lecture: Optimizing Low Reynolds Number Locomotion (Anette Hosoi, MIT) 2009-05-11 16:00: The Code Underlying Tissue-Regulated Splicing (Brendan Frey, University of Toronto) 2009-05-11 16:30: TRPV1: hot new channels in the hippocampus (Prof. Julie Kauer, Brown University) 2009-05-11 19:30: "Life in the Colonies" Social insects and their relevance to human behavior (Professor Francis Ratneiks (Professor of Apiculture, University of Sussex )) 2009-05-11 20:00: Human Stem Cells: Therapeutic and Research Potential (Dr Stephen Minger (King's College London)) 2009-05-12 14:00: Chemotaxis. Do we understand it all? (Orkun Soyer, CoSBi) 2009-05-12 17:30: "The war that never was: the mundane and the exceptional in contemporary Brazil". (Dr Marta Magalhães. Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge.) 2009-05-13 11:00: Model Abstraction Methodology for Temporal Behavior Analysis of Multiscale Biological Systems (Hiroyuki Kuwahara, CoSBi) 2009-05-14 14:00: Divergence measures and message passing (David Knowles (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-14 14:30: "Watching transcription in living cells" (Dr Jonathan Chubb - Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.) 2009-05-14 16:00: PeerSoN: Privacy-Preserving P2P Social Networks (Sonja Buchegger (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories)) 2009-05-14 16:00: The Evolution of Human Languages (Mark Pagel, University of Reading) 2009-05-14 16:00: Function and regulation of the PTEN tumour suppressor in neurons: from axon guidance to soma size control (Britta Eickholt, King's College London) 2009-05-15 13:15: Taking a Shot at neuronal growth in Drosophila (Andreas Prokop - Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, University of Manchester) 2009-05-15 14:00: Martensitic transformations in TRIP-assisted carbon steels (Akke Suiker, Delft University of Technology) 2009-05-15 14:15: Thick & thin: physics of polymers with sticky ends. (Prof. Martien Cohen Stuart, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands) 2009-05-15 16:15: Onsager's Conjecture and Turbulent Dissipation (Susan Friedlander, University of Southern California) 2009-05-18 08:45: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Registration (Organisers) 2009-05-18 09:15: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 1: Data Production (Rory Stark (Lead)) 2009-05-18 10:15: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 1: Computational issues in ancient genomics (Dr Ed Green, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) 2009-05-18 11:30: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 2: Alignment (Mario Caccamo (Lead)) 2009-05-18 12:30: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Lunch & Flip Chart Session (Lunch) 2009-05-18 13:30: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 3: Assembly / Structural variation (Aylwyn Scally (Lead)) 2009-05-18 15:15: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Workshop 4: Counting and comparing (Dr Krys Kelly (Lead)) 2009-05-18 16:00: ClackPointSocial: Audio/Video Collaboration for OpenSocial (Richard Mortier(Vipadia)) 2009-05-18 16:15: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Future Steps (Dr Gos Micklem) 2009-05-18 16:30: Delays and coincidences in spatial hearing (Prof. Philip Joris, University of Leuven) 2009-05-18 16:45: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day Keynote 2: Dark matter and the dark arts (Professor David Baulcombe, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-18 17:30: Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics Day: Drinks & Flip Chart Session (Organisers) 2009-05-18 20:00: Mental programs and the frontal lobe (Prof. John Duncan (Medical Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2009-05-19 14:00: Stochastic simulation algorithms and analysis of biological systems (Sean Sedwards, CoSBi) 2009-05-19 14:30: The use of baseline covariates in cross-over studies (Mike Kenward, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 2009-05-19 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Edward Turnham (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-20 11:00: Study disease-causing genes based on protein-protein interaction networks (Phuong Nguyen, CoSBi) 2009-05-21 11:00: Magic Squares (Dr Jenny Gage, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-21 12:00: Towards automated understanding of scientific papers (Maria Liakata) 2009-05-21 14:00: Technical Writing (Finale Doshi (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-21 14:15: Research Challenges in Cognitive Radio Networks (Vijay Bhargava, University of British Columbia) 2009-05-21 16:00: The Nitty Gritty of PhD Work (Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)) 2009-05-21 16:00: Studies of wound healing and inflammation in flies (Paul Martin, University of Bristol) 2009-05-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Sarah Bray, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-21 20:00: The plastic brain (Prof Colin Blakemore) 2009-05-22 12:00: Processing Geographic Language (Dr. Inderjeet Mani) 2009-05-22 13:15: Division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system (Anna Philpott - Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-22 14:15: Nucleation and growth of insulin fibrils in bulk solution and at hydrophobic polystyrene surfaces (Dr. James Sharp, School of Physics and Astronomy and Nottingham Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Centre, University of Nottingham) 2009-05-22 14:15: An Afternoon of Talks by Second Year Students (A. Holyoake, D. Takagi, K. Drescher, R. Robison, I. Vlahou, H. Rein, J. Gjorgjieva, R. Wood, K. Richardson, A. Barker, D. Pihler) 2009-05-22 14:30: Why is brake squeal so twitchy? Modelling and sensitivity studies of friction-driven vibration (Prof Jim Woodhouse) 2009-05-26 13:00: Using gradient descent for optimization and learning (Nicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research)) 2009-05-26 19:30: "Bringing new medicines to market" How the biopharmaceutical industry works (Dr Melanie Lee DSc (Hon) FMedSci (Executive Vice President of Research and Development, UCB Belgium )) 2009-05-27 20:00: "Global Education of Cervical Cancer" (Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (Chief Executive Officer of the MRC)) 2009-05-28 10:00: Conducting Systematic Literature Reviews (Philip Woodall) 2009-05-28 12:00: Cycling to Enrich and Enhance Dictionary Glosses (Roberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza") 2009-05-28 16:00: The many uses of write off-loading (Dushyanth Narayanan (MSR Cambridge)) 2009-05-28 16:00: Ecomorphological diversification and origins of major clades in early mammal evolution (Zhe-Xi Luo, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh) 2009-05-29 11:00: Online Social Networks and Applications: a Measurement Perspective (Ben Zhao (UCSB)) 2009-05-29 12:00: Mildly non-projective dependency parsing: algorithms and applications (Carlos Gómez - University of Corunna) 2009-05-29 13:15: Insect gut feelings: development and function of visceral neurons in Drosophila (Irene Miguel-Aliaga - Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2009-05-29 14:15: Survival of the aligned: Modeling the cortical microtubule array in plant cells (Bela Mulder, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wageningen University) 2009-05-29 16:00: Turbulence Transition in Pipe Flow (Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg) 2009-06-01 19:30: "Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of Gambling (Dr Luke Clarke (Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-02 14:00: Progress on development of a microfluidic robot scientist (Prof. Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London) 2009-06-02 15:10: Visual search and mining of large scale image collections (Prof. Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford) 2009-06-02 16:20: Informed matter: The confluence of information processes and material science (Dr Klaus-Peter Zauner, University of Southampton) 2009-06-02 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Arne Nagengast (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-02 17:10: From microscopic to macroscopic descriptions of cell migration on growing domains (Dr Ruth Baker, University of Oxford) 2009-06-03 15:00: Mobile Agent Electronic Triage Tag (Ramon Martí and Abraham Martín(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)) 2009-06-04 16:00: Synchronization of the Drosophila circadian clock by daily light and temperature fluctuations (Ralf Stanewsky, Queen Mary College, University of London) 2009-06-04 16:00: Baggy Bounds Checking: An Efficient and Backwards-Compatible Defense against Out-of-Bounds Errors (Periklis Akritidis (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-05 11:00: Robot Scientists and the automated scientific laboratory (Amanda Clare - Dept of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University) 2009-06-05 12:00: Extending a Surface Realizer to Generate Coherent Discourse (Eva Banik, Open University) 2009-06-05 13:15: The imprinted atypical Notch ligand Dlk1 and the regulation of adult neurogenesis (Anne Ferguson-Smith - PDN, University of Cambridge) 2009-06-05 14:15: Chemically modifying surfaces and biomolecules for nanopore analysis (Dr Stefan Howorka, Department of Chemistry, University College London) 2009-06-05 16:00: Artificial Microscopic Cilia: Fabrication and Dynamic Behaviour (Marc Fermigier, PMMH-ESPCI) 2009-06-08 11:00: Crowdsourcing Network Monitoring (Prof. Fabián E. Bustamante (Northwestern University)) 2009-06-08 11:30: Semantic Image Segmentation and Web-Supervised Visual Learning (Florian Schroff, University of Oxford) 2009-06-08 14:15: The Flexibility Window in Networks and Proteins ( Prof. Mike Thorpe, Arizona State University) 2009-06-08 16:00: The Executable Pathway to Biological Networks (Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2009-06-08 19:30: "Happy Danes!" A scientific analysis of the recent EU survey into income and contentment (Dr Luisa Corrado (Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge )) 2009-06-09 10:15: Stochastic Networks Workshop (DamonWischik (UCL) , Stan Zachary (Heriot-Watt Univ.) , NeilWalton (Univ. of Cambridge) , Ramesh Johari (Stanford Univ.) , Stratis Ioannidis (Thomson Lab) , DamonWischik (UCL)) 2009-06-09 11:00: Domain Knowledge Driven Program Analysis (Daniel Ratiu - TU Munich) 2009-06-09 14:00: Complexity and Robustness in Colonies of Agents: A Formal Languages and a Game Theory Approach (Matteo Cavaliere, CoSBi) 2009-06-09 14:30: Generalized Multilevel Functional Regression (Ana-Maria Staicu, University of Bristol) 2009-06-09 15:00: Towards disposable healthcare devices: a paradigm shift (Prof. Chris Toumazou FRS, Imperial College) 2009-06-09 16:00: Is the homunculus `aware' of sensory adaptation? (Peggy Seriès (The University of Edinburgh)) 2009-06-10 09:00: Workshop on Networks, Auctions and Pricing - 1 Day (http://naapworkshop.eventbrite.com/) 2009-06-10 11:00: Topological keystone species: network analysis in modern systems ecology (Ferenc Jordán, CoSBi) 2009-06-10 14:15: Factor Analysis with a Mixture of Gaussian Factors, with Application to Separation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (Prof Simon Wilson, School of Computer Science and Statistics, University College, Dublin) 2009-06-10 17:30: “Interfaith relations, scriptural reasoning, and theories of deliberative democracy” (title to be confirmed). (Dr Jeff Bailey.Tutor in Public Theology, Westcott House and Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity.) 2009-06-11 09:00: Biowire Workshop (Day 1/2) (See the abstract) 2009-06-11 14:00: Slice Sampling (Yue Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-11 14:30: "Chromatin control in development and disease" (Prof. Peter Verrijzer - Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam) 2009-06-11 16:00: Plasticity of sex pheromone detection in male moths: modulation of behaviour and central nervous processing (Sylvia Anton, Centre de Recherches de Versailles) 2009-06-11 18:30: PRIVATE EVENING TOUR OF THE CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - NOW FULLY BOOKED! (Botanic Garden guides) 2009-06-12 09:00: Biowire Workshop (Day 2/2) (See the abstract) 2009-06-12 14:00: Synchronverters: Inverters that mimic synchronous generators (Dr. Qing-Chang Zhong (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, The University of Liverpool)) 2009-06-12 16:00: Impact Dynamics in Granular Matter: Ejection and Penetration Processes (Philippe Gondret, FAST) 2009-06-15 11:00: Observed Relationships between Size Measures of the Internet or Is the Internet really just a star network after all? (Brian Carpenter (University of Auckland)) 2009-06-16 14:00: Analyzing the effect of noise on various models of Circadian Clock and Cell Cycle coupling (Alessandro Romanel, CoSBi) 2009-06-16 17:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-18 14:15: Routing and Network Coding on Lines, Stars, and Rings (Gerhard Kramer, University of Southern California, Los Angeles) 2009-06-18 15:00: Message Passing (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-18 19:00: Refactoring with Generics (Kathleen Dollard) 2009-06-23 11:00: THE SECRET WORLD OF CODES AND CODEBREAKING (Dr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge) 2009-06-24 12:00: Portuguese Text Simplification for Digital Inclusion and Accessibility (Caroline Gasperin) 2009-06-26 10:00: A framework for analysing product information traceability (Prof. Dr. Hervé Panetto) 2009-06-26 14:00: Load balancing by network curvature control (Professor Edmond Jonckheere (Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California)) 2009-06-27 10:05: Lady Margaret: Where did the money come from? (Dr Francis Woodman) 2009-06-27 10:50: Lady Margaret: Sponsor of the printed word (Professor Lisa Jardine) 2009-06-27 11:35: Tudor Portraits: Icon or Mask (Dr Charles Saumarez Smith) 2009-06-27 14:15: Lady Margaret: Foundress of the Tudor dynasty (Dr David Starkey) 2009-06-30 09:30: How to write a great research paper (Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)) 2009-06-30 11:00: How to give a great research talk (Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)) 2009-06-30 11:00: Ethernet Evolution from 1990 to Today (Ran Atkinson (Extreme Networks)) 2009-06-30 13:30: New kinds of software for new kinds of science (Alexander Brändle (Microsoft Research)) 2009-06-30 14:00: Towards a Network Measurement Science (Don Towsley, UMass) 2009-06-30 15:00: Hybrids of generative and discriminative models (Julia Lasserre (University of Cambridge/Max Planck Institute)) 2009-06-30 15:20: Scalable display architectures (Alban Rrustemi (University of Cambridge)) 2009-06-30 15:40: Generative face models for image understanding (Brian Amberg (University of Basel)) 2009-06-30 16:00: Interactive matting (Christoph Rhemann (Vienna University of Technology)) 2009-06-30 16:20: Challenges in refactoring (Mathieu Verbaere (University of Oxford)) 2009-06-30 17:00: EU opportunities for young researchers (Carlos Morais-Pires (European Commission, DG INFSO)) 2009-07-01 09:30: Rough guide to being an entrepreneur (Jack Lang (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-01 11:00: Hitchhikers guide to machine learning (Christopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)) 2009-07-01 13:30: The executable pathway to biological networks (Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-01 13:30: Principles and applications of refinement types (Andy Gordon (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-01 15:00: Tools and services for data intensive research (Roger Barga (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-01 16:15: WorldWide Telescope - A computational science innovation (Yan Xu (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-01 16:40: Scientific computing on .NET (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-02 09:30: How to manage your supervisor (Tennie Videler (Vitae)) 2009-07-02 11:00: Systems and networking research at MSR Cambridge (Tim Harris (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-02 11:00: New hardware enabling new user experiences (James Scott (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-02 11:30: Sparse Approximation and Atomic Decomposition: Considering Atom Interactions in Evaluating and Building Signal Representations (Bob Sturm, Chateaubriand Fellow post-doctoral researcher at UPMC - Paris 06 with Professor Laurent Daudet) 2009-07-02 13:30: Enabling intelligent management of the environment (Drew Purves (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-02 13:30: Forza, Halo, Xbox Live: The magic of research in products (Ralf Herbrich (Microsoft Research Ltd.)) 2009-07-02 14:00: Hessian-based Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms (Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd)) 2009-07-02 15:00: Introduction to intellectual property (John Mulgrew (Microsoft)) 2009-07-02 16:15: Internships uncovered... (Peter Key (Microsoft Research)) 2009-07-03 09:30: Giving a good presentation (Ken Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques)) 2009-07-03 11:00: Sustainable energy without the hot air (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2009-07-06 11:30: Cops, Crops and Mobile Phones: Machine Learning in Africa (John Quinn - Makerere University, Uganda) 2009-07-07 14:00: Learning Deep Architectures (Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal) 2009-07-08 15:00: A Queue with Multiple Stable Regions (Victor Li (University of Hong Kong)) 2009-07-09 14:00: From Verification to Synthesis (Moshe Y. Vardi - Rice University) 2009-07-09 17:30: The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society (Professor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden) 2009-07-10 12:00: A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTE (Richard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2009-07-10 12:45: Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation (Laura Rimell, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2009-07-14 11:00: Towards focusing research and innovations on local needs: If wireless technologies are to connect the wireless continent (Dr Idris A. Rai - Makerere University) 2009-07-14 15:00: Machine Learning Reveals the Genetic Code Controlling Splicing (Brendan Frey - Microsoft Research) 2009-07-16 16:00: SIGCOMM 2009 Keynote Talk: Internet of Ideas (Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)) 2009-07-20 10:00: Physical Layer of UHF RFID Systems (Dr. Pavel Nikitin) 2009-07-23 10:00: Towards a Classification of Service Design: Foci, Activities, Phases, Perspectives and Participants (Giuditta Pezzotta) 2009-07-28 14:00: Computable Probability Theory (Daniel Roy (MIT)) 2009-07-30 14:15: Toward Sparse and Structured Projections for Compressed Sensing (Prof Hayder Radha, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan State University) 2009-08-13 12:00: Clitic Pregroups: in search for a uniform pattern of clitic movement in natural languages (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Oxford University Computing Laboratory) 2009-08-24 10:00: Self-serving asset auctions (Sebastian Kruse) 2009-08-27 11:00: Convex Variational Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Generalized Linear Models (Hannes Nickisch) 2009-09-01 09:30: Mini-Course on Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks (Vito Latora (University of Catania)) 2009-09-04 10:00: Network Coding for the Multiple Access Channel (Danail Traskov, TU Munich) 2009-09-04 11:30: Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation Systems with Quantized Soft-Out Demodulators (Clemens Novak, Vienna University of Technology) 2009-09-04 14:00: Reinforced elastomeric materials at large strains (Prof. Pedro Ponte Castaneda, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) 2009-09-07 16:00: Towards a transcriptional taxonomy of in vitro stem cell preparations (Franz-Josef Müller (University of Kiel / The Scripps Research Institute)) 2009-09-08 16:00: Addressing the Scalability of Ethernet with MOOSE (Malcolm Scott (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-10 19:00: TALES FROM THE BREWHOUSE (Richard Naisby, Milton Brewery, Cambridge) 2009-09-14 11:15: Testing for Local Stationarity in Acoustic Signals: Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches (Daniel G. Rudoy, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University) 2009-09-17 14:00: Mobile Wireless Networked Controlled Systems: Control Issues (Professor Anthony Tzes (University of Patras, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering)) 2009-09-17 16:00: FreeBSD support for Stanford NetFPGA (Wojciech Koszek (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and Ericsson)) 2009-09-18 10:00: CANCELLED (Prof. Eric Xing (CMU)) 2009-09-18 14:00: Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin (Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-21 10:00: QFQ: Efficient Packet Scheduling with Tight Service Guarantees (Luigi Rizzo, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa) 2009-09-21 11:00: Capacity of Spiking Neural Networks (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-09-21 16:00: TDMA For Long Distance Wireless Networks (Sam Leffler (FreeBSD)) 2009-09-22 11:00: Use phase signals to promote lifetime extension for desktop PCs (Stewart Hickey - University of Limerick) 2009-09-22 13:00: Physics of Living Matter 4 (day1) (see abstract for details) 2009-09-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK)) 2009-09-23 09:00: Physics of Living Matter 4 (day2) (see abstract for detials) 2009-09-24 11:00: Root cause analysis for locomotives (Bjoern Kastelainer) 2009-09-24 13:30: Cell cortex mechanics: of blebs and other intriguing aspects of cell shape (Dr Ewa Paluch, MPI-CBG, Dresden) 2009-09-24 16:00: RouteBricks: Exploiting Parallelism to Scale Software Routers (Katerina Argyraki (EPFL)) 2009-09-24 16:00: "Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila" (Prof. Trudy Mackay - NC State Univeristy) 2009-09-28 16:00: How to control respiration: hydroxylation, hypoxia, and HIF (Professor Randall Johnson (University of California)) 2009-09-29 14:00: Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learning (Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2009-09-29 14:15: Rare Event Simulation for Processes with Light Tailed Increments (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-09-29 16:00: Reduced cortical neuron models: Experiment and theory (Magnus Richardson, Warwick University) 2009-10-01 11:00: RFID in Manufacturing: Lessons from Six Case Studies (Prof. Oliver Guenther) 2009-10-01 11:30: Data redundancy and maintenance in peer-to-peer file backup systems (Alessandro Duminuco - Institut Eurécom) 2009-10-01 14:00: Technical Writing II (Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-01 14:00: Generalized, Efficient Array Decision procedures (Nikolaj Bjorner - Microsoft Research) 2009-10-01 16:00: The Multikernel: A new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems (Andrew Baumann (ETH Zürich)) 2009-10-01 19:00: HUNTING THE ANTISOCIAL CANCER CELL (Prof. Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge) 2009-10-02 14:00: - (Dr Najl Valeyev (St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London School of Medicine)) 2009-10-05 16:00: Cancer Tumour/Normal Pair Analysis with the Illumina Genome Analyzer (Dirk Evers and Keira Cheetham (Illumina Cambridge Ltd.)) 2009-10-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (James Ingram (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-07 14:15: Rare Event Simulation for Processes with Light Tailed Increments (Dr Thomas A Dean, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, CUED) 2009-10-07 18:00: Cradle to Cradle Design (Bill McDonough William McDonough and Partners) 2009-10-08 14:00: Structured prediction using energy-based models (Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-08 16:00: Motivating Future Interconnects: A Differential Measurement Analysis of PCI Latency (David Miller (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-08 16:00: Phylodynamics of HIV-1 infection and escape from neutralizing antibodies (Simon Frost, Dept Veterinary Medicine, Univ Cambridge) 2009-10-08 16:00: "Shaping the amniote embryo: the cellular mechanisms of chick morphogenesis (Octavian Voiculescu, Dept of PDN) 2009-10-09 13:00: Motor Skills Learning for Robotics (Jan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen) 2009-10-09 14:00: Dipolar Gels (Dr Mark Miller (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-09 14:00: Mathematical modelling of solid tumour growth, and preliminary studies of the associated free energy changes (Dr Krishna Garikipati, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan) 2009-10-09 16:00: Summoning the Wind: Fungal Spores Cooperate Hydrodynamically to Enhance Dispersal (Marcus Roper, University of California, Berkeley) 2009-10-12 16:30: Computational modeling of long-range connections in superficial layers of visual cortex V1 (Steven Zucker, Yale University) 2009-10-12 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE - The internet and new forms of mathematical collaboration (Professor W T Gowers FRS, DPMMS) 2009-10-13 17:30: Just listen they're scared: The application of hostage negotiation in everyday life. (Richard Mullender, Former member of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, Scotland Yard) 2009-10-14 17:30: C P Snow's Two Cultures Revisited (Professor Lisa Jardine, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London) 2009-10-14 19:30: Shrinking Down Nutrition: Nanofoods (Dr Dora Pereira, MRC Human Nutrition Research) 2009-10-15 14:00: Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning (Alex Ksikes (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-15 14:30: "Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early Drosophila embryos" (Dr Benedicte Sanson - PDN) 2009-10-15 16:00: Triangular clustering in document networks (Shi Zhou (UCL)) 2009-10-15 16:00: Conflict and cooperation in social birds (Andy Radford, University of Bristol) 2009-10-15 16:00: Pathobiology of antitrypsin deficiency and the serpinopathies (David Lomas, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrookes Site, Cambridge) 2009-10-15 17:00: Cryo Electron Microscopy: From Molecules to Systems (Professor Wolfgang Baumeister, MPI of Biochemistry, Head of Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Martinsried/Germany) 2009-10-16 12:00: Ontology Learning for Portuguese (Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal) 2009-10-16 13:15: Hedgehog signalling and myogenesis in the zebrafish (Philip Ingham, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology Singapore) 2009-10-16 14:00: Protein dynamics and amyloid formation: two sides of the same coin (Alfonso de Simone (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-16 14:00: Size effects in plasticity: Discrete Dislocation Dynamics and Strain gradient formulations (Dr Kostas Danas, CUED) 2009-10-16 15:30: Fourth William Pitt Seminar: "A Blueprint for survival" (Various speakers) 2009-10-16 16:00: A New Approach to Regularity and Singularity of PDEs Including 3-D Navier Stokes Equation (Saleh Tanveer, Ohio State University) 2009-10-19 14:00: What Are The Odds? (Nadia Baker, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge) 2009-10-19 16:30: Investigating the firing properties of motoneurones with dynamic clamp and modelling (Claude Meunier René Descartes University, Paris.) 2009-10-19 19:30: Plagiarism in Science (Professor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR) 2009-10-20 14:30: A Bayesian dose-escalation procedure for phase I/II clinical trials (John Whitehead, Lancaster University) 2009-10-20 16:00: The Evolution of Creationism (Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education USA) 2009-10-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK)) 2009-10-20 18:30: Invisible Children: THE RESCUE (Cameron Barbour) 2009-10-21 14:00: Statistical network analysis in computational genomics (Florian Markowetz - Cancer Research UK) 2009-10-21 14:15: Optimal scaling of the random walk Metropolis (Christopher Sherlock, Dept of Maths & Statistics, Lancaster University) 2009-10-22 14:00: High-dimensional variable selection via sure independence screening (Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge)) 2009-10-22 14:30: Initiation of Centrosome separation in G2 phase requires concerted actio of Plk1, Aurora A kinase and Eg5, but occurs independently of Cdk1 (Dr Helfrid Hochegger - Sussex centre for Genome damage and Stability) 2009-10-22 16:00: Cancelled (Enrico Coen, John Innes Center, Norwich) 2009-10-22 16:00: Physics, development, and evolution of avian structural colors (Richard Prum, Yale University) 2009-10-22 16:00: A Dirty-slate Approach to Routing Scalability (Hitesh Ballani (MSR/Cornell University)) 2009-10-23 12:00: Bayesian non-parametric models for parsing and translation (Trevor Cohn, University of Sheffield) 2009-10-23 13:15: The long and short of Hox non-coding RNAs (Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester) 2009-10-23 14:00: Cells Under the Tip (Prof. Andrew E. Pelling, University of Ottawa, Canada) 2009-10-23 14:00: Granular/liquid flow in a conical centrifuge (Dr Digby Simons, CUED) 2009-10-23 16:00: The Acoustic Boundary Condition for Flow Over a Deformable Wall (Ed Brambley, DAMTP) 2009-10-26 17:30: The Measure of the Universe: a crisis for cosmology (Professor G Efstathiou FRS, Kavli Institute for Cosmology) 2009-10-26 18:30: PhD or NoT? (PhD Students, Career Service, Board of Graduate Studies...) 2009-10-27 14:30: Estimation of time to pregnancy from current duration data (Niels Keiding, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen) 2009-10-27 16:00: On the Games Neurons Play (in Visual Cortex) (Steven Zucker) 2009-10-28 11:00: Information theoretic model selection in clustering (Joachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich) 2009-10-28 17:30: Cancer as a Darwinian Process (Professor Ron Laskey FRS) 2009-10-29 14:00: Speed Reviewing (All Participants) 2009-10-29 14:00: Content Centric Networking (Van Jacobson (PARC)) 2009-10-29 14:30: "Modelling human neurodegenerative diseases in Drosophila" (Dr Aaron Voigt) 2009-10-29 16:00: 'Understanding the MRC's failure to fund Edwards' and Steptoe's work that led to the birth of Louise Brown (Martin Johnson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge) 2009-10-29 16:00: Life in rotten places: how O2 and CO2 sensing alter foraging in a worm (Mario DeBono, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2009-10-29 16:00: Microeconomic Modeling of Incentives for Managed Overlays (Raul Landa (University College London)) 2009-10-30 13:15: The role of transcriptional regulators in extraembryonic cell-fate decisions (Kathy Niakan, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge) 2009-10-30 14:00: Engineered protein pores as components of soft micromachines (Hagan Bayley) 2009-10-30 14:00: Value Ordering Heuristics for Quantified Constraint Satisfaction (David Stynes, University College Cork) 2009-10-30 14:30: Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals under Combined Tensile and Shear Stresses (Dr Dov Sherman: Technion, Israel) 2009-10-30 14:30: Crack Propagation in Brittle Crystals under Combined Tensile and Shear Stresses (Dr Dov Sherman, Technion, Israel) 2009-10-30 16:00: Does Drift Change the Attraction of Internal Waves? (Stuart B. Dalziel, DAMTP) 2009-11-02 16:00: Biochemical network reconstruction from data (Jorge Goncalves, Department of Engineering) 2009-11-02 16:30: “Modeling synaptic plasticity across multiple time scales”. (Wulfram Gerstner EPFL.) 2009-11-02 19:30: Science and the Media (Quentin Cooper, Presenter of BBC's "Material World") 2009-11-03 14:30: The Value for Medical and Public Health Decisions of Adding Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Data to a Model for Breast Cancer Risk (Mitch Gail, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, USA) 2009-11-03 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Philip Sterne (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-04 14:15: An Adaptive Sequential Monte Carlo Algorithm For Bayesian Mixture Analysis (Ben Taylor, Dept of Maths & Statistics, Lancaster University) 2009-11-04 16:30: Statistics Clinic, Michaelmas II, 2009 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-11-04 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Our cosmic environment (Professor Martin Rees FRS, Astronomer Royal) 2009-11-04 17:30: "Music, rhythm, and movement: Why we fill the silence?" (Dr Jessica Grahn (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)) 2009-11-05 14:00: Filtering of Noisy Time-Series Data (Henrik Ohlsson, Marc Deisenroth, Hugo Vincent) 2009-11-05 14:30: "Cell fate specification and tissue morphogenesis in the Drosophila mesoderm" (Prof. Manfred Frasch - Developmental Biology, University of Erlangen - Nuremberg) 2009-11-05 16:00: "Chromatin architecture and transcription: a view form the fly genome" (Steve Russell, Dept of Genetics, Cambridge) 2009-11-05 16:00: Comparative analysis of the evolutionary development of brain size in mammals (Isabella Capellini, University of Durham) 2009-11-05 19:00: SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTURE (Dr Hal Sosabowski, University of Brighton) 2009-11-06 13:15: Balancing self-renewal and differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system (Andrea Brand, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-06 14:00: Recent Theoretical Developments in Optimal Control (Professor Richard Vinter (Imperial College London)) 2009-11-06 14:00: Colloidal Characterization and Thermodynamic Stability of Binary Protein Mixtures ( Prof. Giuseppe Foffi) 2009-11-06 14:30: Tissue Contact Mechanics (Georges Debregeas: Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) 2009-11-06 14:30: Transduction of tactile information in human touch : a biomimetic approach (Dr Georges Debregeas, Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) 2009-11-06 16:00: Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Fluid Flows: Current Capabilities and Emerging Opportunities (Lynn F. Gladden, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-06 18:00: Addenbrooke's Annual Lecture and Reception - Dr Susan Robinson on 'A Matter of Life or Death' (Dr Susan Robsinson) 2009-11-08 14:00: Machine Learning RCC - Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents, Teh, Daumé and Roy, NIPS 2007 (Sinead Williamson) 2009-11-08 16:30: Gates Internal Symposium: Social Science and the Scientific Method (Various student speakers; see website for more information) 2009-11-09 10:30: Nesting Transactions: Why and What Do We Need? (Eliot Moss - University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 2009-11-09 14:00: Proving the Correctness of Abstract Concurrency Control and Recovery (Eliot Moss - University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2009-11-09 16:30: “Nociception and pain in early life: the emergence of endogenous control systems”. (Maria Fitzgerald, UCL.) 2009-11-09 17:30: Hearing loss and hearing aids (Professor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception) 2009-11-10 11:00: KL control theory and decision making under uncertainty (Bert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)) 2009-11-10 14:30: Generalized estimating equations for censored data (Daniel Farewell, Cardiff University) 2009-11-10 18:15: Burning Ice: Art, Science & Climate Change (Quentin Cooper) 2009-11-11 14:00: Through the Looking Glass ....again and again! (Dr Sara Santos, Royal Institution) 2009-11-11 19:30: Exploiting Bacteria to Battle Cancer (Dr Guillermo de la Cueva Méndez (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre)) 2009-11-12 14:00: Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents (Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-12 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Steve Williams, MRC LMB, Cambridge) 2009-11-12 16:00: Smart foot sweat: two phasic foot pad secretion prevents slipping (Chris Clemente, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-12 16:15: Saving the world, one handset at a time (Simon Chatterjee (Ensoft Ltd)) 2009-11-13 12:00: Fine-grained sentiment analysis in text and multi-party conversation (Theresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh) 2009-11-13 13:15: Developmental programming of the placenta (Abby Fowden, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-13 14:00: Theory of Elasticity at the Nanoscale (Professor Bhushan Karihaloo, Cardiff University) 2009-11-13 14:00: Fault-tolerant control - is it possible? (Professor Jan Maciejowski (CUED Control Group)) 2009-11-13 14:00: Intracellular signalling in a molecular jungle: insights from bacterial chemotaxis (Prof. Dennis Bray) 2009-11-13 16:00: Modelling Low Reynolds Number Swimming Near a Wall (Darren G. Crowdy, Imperial College) 2009-11-16 14:00: Flow-Induced “Shish-kebab” Formation: A New-Scenario of Kinetic Pathways for􀀁Entangled Polymer Solutions (Takeji Hashimoto, Prof. Emeritus, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan) 2009-11-16 16:30: “Olfaction as a model for brain organization: from Adrian to the present”. (Gordon Shepherd, Yale University.) 2009-11-16 19:30: Laser Photonics (Dr Bill O'Neill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (David Franklin (University of Cambridge)) 2009-11-18 11:00: Recent results on Bayesian image recovery (Prof Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University) 2009-11-18 14:15: Massively Parallel Advanced Monte Carlo Methods on Many-Core Processors (Anthony Lee, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford) 2009-11-18 16:30: Stats Clinic Michaelmas III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-11-18 17:30: Blind to the Obvious: the Resistance to Neo-Darwinian Sociology. (W G Runciman) 2009-11-19 14:00: Gaussian Processes for Active Data Selection, Faults, Changepoints and Sensor Selection (Prof. Stephen Roberts (Oxford)) 2009-11-19 16:00: Clockwork in the embryo (Julian lewis) 2009-11-19 16:00: Internet Optometry: Assessing the Broken Glasses in Internet Reachability (Olaf Maennel (Loughborough University)) 2009-11-19 16:00: Does morality need religion? A selectionist approach (Robert Hinde, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-20 12:00: Semiring Parsing without Parsing (Adam Lopez, University of Edinburgh) 2009-11-20 13:15: Establishing and manipulating pluripotency in the early embryo (Jenny Nichols, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-20 14:00: Anelastic and viscoelastic behaviour of microstructured rocks and minerals: implications for the planet (Professor Simon Redfern, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-20 14:00: Teaching control using lego (Dr Glenn Vinnicombe, Control Group, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-20 14:00: Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law Behaviour (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2009-11-20 16:00: Impact on Thin Elastic Sheets (Nicolas Vandenberghe, IRPHE, Marseille) 2009-11-21 17:00: Gates Coffeehouse Webinar: Breaking into Politics (Four young Europeans and Americans engaged in politics; see website for more info) 2009-11-22 09:00: 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA (MUM 2009) (please see website details) 2009-11-23 16:30: “How experience changes the circuitry of the brain”. (Tobias Bonhoeffer, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried.) 2009-11-23 17:30: Tracing human ancestry using DNA (Dr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Münster, Germany) 2009-11-23 18:30: Cambridge - Treasure Island in the Fens (Nicholas Chrimes) 2009-11-23 19:00: HIV/AIDS: Science & Myth (Professor Robin Weiss) 2009-11-24 18:00: Clones, stem cells, and cell replacement (Hats Off Club) (Professor Sir John Gurdon) 2009-11-25 14:30: Lookahead in Sequential Monte Carlo (Prof Rong Chen, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University) 2009-11-26 14:00: Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics (Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)) 2009-11-26 14:30: Cell-Cell Communication during Fertilization in Arabidopsis: a Surprising Link to Disease Resistance (Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus - Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich) 2009-11-26 16:00: The importance of context in protein misfolding and aggregation (Anne Bertolotti, MRC LMB, Cambridge) 2009-11-26 16:00: Actin, pseudopods, and chemotaxis - cell biological and computational modelling approaches to cellular navigation (Robert Insall, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow) 2009-11-26 17:00: Making Computer Science more Social: Speed Dating and the History of Science (Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University) 2009-11-26 17:30: “Language and Silence in Religious and Continental Philosophy”. (Professor Graham Ward (Manchester University)) 2009-11-27 12:00: Inducing Synchronous Grammars for Machine Translation (Phil Blunsom, University of Oxford) 2009-11-27 13:15: Molecular control of axon pathfinding in the visual system (Robert Hindges, MRC Neurobiology Unit, King's College London) 2009-11-27 14:00: Computational fluid-membrane interaction with application to supersonic decelerators (Dr Fehmi Cirak, CUED) 2009-11-27 14:00: Verifying stability of approximate explicit MPC (Professor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)) 2009-11-27 16:00: Electrical Streaming Potential Generated by Two-Phase Flow (John Sherwood, DAMTP) 2009-11-30 11:30: Experimental and computational approaches to implicit learning of musical structure (Martin Rohrmeier, University of Cambridge) 2009-11-30 19:30: Robotic Surgery (Professor David Neal, Professor of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Research UK) 2009-12-01 14:30: Emulation of random output (stochastic) models: theory and application (Dan Cornford, Non-linearity and Complexity Research Group, Aston University) 2009-12-01 16:00: Stochastic Model Predictive Control: Tractability and constraint satisfaction (Professor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich)) 2009-12-01 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ian Howard (University of Cambridge)) 2009-12-01 18:00: The Cyberknife (Mark Brenner, MD, Chief of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife Center) 2009-12-02 11:00: Joint imputation and estimation of haplotype transition probabilities (Wolfgang Lehrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2009-12-02 14:15: Marginal and joint space representations within ABC, and the issue of bias (Mark Briers, Qinetiq) 2009-12-02 16:00: Obesity and insulin resistance: Lessons from human genetics (Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge) 2009-12-02 16:30: Stats Clinic Michaelmas V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-12-02 16:30: Stats Clinic Michaelmas IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2009-12-03 14:00: Unbounded-depth hierarchical Pitman-Yor processes (Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge)) 2009-12-03 14:00: Predicting biological functions at different spatial scales: From molecules to ecosystems (Dr Peer Bork - European Molecular Biology Laboratory) 2009-12-03 16:00: The evolutionary biomechanics of dinosaur locomotion (John Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College, Univ London) 2009-12-03 16:00: A systems approach to cellular shape and motion (Professor Jonathon Howard, Director of Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany) 2009-12-04 11:00: Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotation (Sean Moran (Edinburgh)) 2009-12-04 12:00: Learning to Follow Orders: Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions (Luke Zettlemoyer, University of Edinburgh) 2009-12-04 14:00: DNA homology recognition: love on first sight (Prof. Alexei A. Kornyshev, Imperial College London) 2009-12-04 16:00: Vortices in Unconventional Superfluids (Natasha Berloff, DAMTP) 2009-12-07 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication (SPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall) 2009-12-07 14:00: Mechanics and design of lightweight structures (Professor Dan Zenkert, KTH Sweden) 2009-12-07 16:00: New Approaches to Biomedical Data Modelling: An Introductory Tutorial (Christopher M. Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)) 2009-12-08 09:30: R.A. Fisher Exhibition (Prof. AWF Edwards) 2009-12-09 19:30: Genetic testing: Truth or Dare? (Dr Caroline Wright (PHG Foundation)) 2009-12-10 16:00: Security Architectures for Distributed Social Networks (Jonathan Anderson (University of Cambridge)) 2009-12-10 17:00: The future of supply chain data management (Kenneth Owens and Dr. Alexandra Brintrup) 2009-12-11 16:00: Coded Wireless Video Broadcast/Multicast - A Framework To Harvest The True Potential Of 4G Access Networks (James She (Univ. Waterloo)) 2010-01-11 14:00: Life at High Péclet Number (Dr Ray Goldstein, DAMPT) 2010-01-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Hugo Vincent (University of Cambridge)) 2010-01-12 15:00: A Bit of Network Information Theory (Suhas Diggavi (EPFL)) 2010-01-13 14:00: Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle (Professor Sean Meyn (Director, Decision & Control Lab, CSL ECE UIUC)) 2010-01-14 10:00: Machine Learning Course (4F13) (Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge)) 2010-01-14 14:00: RCC Planning Meeting (All) 2010-01-14 16:00: Mycobacterial disease in Drosophila: old signals, new biology (Marc Dionne, Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology of Inflammation, King's College London) 2010-01-14 16:00: Bringing network coding into the network (Muriel Medard (MIT)) 2010-01-14 18:30: Discussion with movie director and writer of The Horse Boy (Rupert Isaacson) 2010-01-15 14:00: In Vivo studies with Optical Tweezers (Prof. Lene B. Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark) 2010-01-15 14:00: Phase field modelling of microstructure evolution (Dr John Huber, Oxford University, Department of Engineering Science) 2010-01-15 16:00: Mixing by Eddies (Emily Shuckburgh, BAS, Cambridge) 2010-01-15 17:30: Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty (Professor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-18 10:00: Visuospatial Reasoning (Stephanie Chan (MIT)) 2010-01-18 19:30: Gravitational Lensing (Dr Lindsay King, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-19 11:00: CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human Sensing (Dr Fernando de la Torre (CMU)) 2010-01-19 14:30: Modelling the association between patient characteristics and the change over time in a disease measure using observational cohort data (Andrew Copas, Centre for sexual health & HIV research, UCL) 2010-01-20 10:00: Machine Learning Course (4F13) (Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge)) 2010-01-20 16:00: Community detection algorithms: a comparative analysis (Santo Fortunato (Institute for Scientific Interchange, Italy)) 2010-01-21 11:00: Inferring Signaling Pathway Topologies from Multiple Perturbation Measurements of Specific Biochemical Species : A model-based approach (Mark Girolami, University of Glasgow) 2010-01-21 14:00: (Canceled) A Causal Calculus for Statistical Research (Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge)) 2010-01-21 14:00: Riemannian Manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (Mark Girolami) 2010-01-21 14:30: "Organising microtubule organisers (and some new proteomics tools) (Dr Ken Sawin, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh.) 2010-01-21 16:00: Optical Communications for Data Centres and High Performance Computing (Philip Watts (University of Cambridge)) 2010-01-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Lopez-Barneo) 2010-01-21 16:00: The developmental origins of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome (Susan Ozanne, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-22 12:00: A Bottom-up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization (Danushka Bollegala - University of Tokyo) 2010-01-22 13:15: What are the cells in the developing vertebrate retina doing? (Bill Harris, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-22 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Tony Cheetham, Department of Materials Science) 2010-01-22 16:00: Stratospheric Water Vapour: Enigma or Rosetta Stone (Stephan Fueglistaler, DAMTP) 2010-01-22 17:30: Risk: Science and the Media (Dr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian) 2010-01-25 16:30: The ins and outs of hearing: amplification and coding in the mammalian cochlea (Jonathan Ashmore, UCL.) 2010-01-25 17:30: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Stirring Tails of Evolution (Professor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP) 2010-01-25 19:00: Understanding the Complexity of Eukaryotic Cells: Triumphs of Fungal Genetics (Professor Lorna Casselton) 2010-01-26 14:00: Efficient Bayesian Model Comparison with Differential Equations: a Population MCMC Approach via the Thermodynamic Integral (Ben Calderhead, University of Glasgow) 2010-01-26 14:00: Efficient Bayesian Model Comparison with Differential Equations: a Population MCMC Approach via the Thermodynamic Integral (Ben Calderhead, University of Glasgow) 2010-01-26 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel Braun (University of Cambridge)) 2010-01-27 16:30: Stats Clinic Lent I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-01-27 18:00: Roadmap to 2050 (Professor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate) 2010-01-27 19:30: Pandemic! Where do new infections come from? (Dr Chris Smith, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) 2010-01-28 14:00: The Fractional Belief Propagation menace (Frederik Eaton) 2010-01-28 14:30: "Insights into the molecular pathogenesis of Huntington's disease" (Prof. Gillian Bates - King's College London School of Medicine) 2010-01-28 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Emma Rawlins) 2010-01-28 16:00: Multi-legged running in the real world: how do cockroaches, dogs, and horses handle different surfaces? (Andrew Spence, Royal Veterinary College London) 2010-01-28 16:00: Routing Fairness in Chord: Analysis and Enhancement (Rubén Cuevas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)) 2010-01-29 00:00: Epigenetic signatures of stem-cell identity - CANCELLED (Veronique Azuara, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College) 2010-01-29 11:00: L_p-Spherically Symmetric and L_p-nested Distributions for Patches of Natural Images (Fabian Sinz, Max Planck Institute Tübingen) 2010-01-29 12:00: The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds' Syntax and Semantics (Preslav Nakov - National University of Singapore) 2010-01-29 14:00: Performance Improvement in Paper Making using Model Predictive Control (Dr Paul Austin) 2010-01-29 14:00: What keeps sand-castles standing? The physics of wet granular matter (Prof. Stefan Herminghaus, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany) 2010-01-29 14:00: Analysis of coupled atomistic/continuum models for solids (Dr Christoph Ortner, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford) 2010-01-29 16:00: Global Stability of Compressible Flow About a Swept Parabolic Body (Christoph Mack, École Polytechnique, Paris) 2010-01-29 17:30: Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty (Professor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin) 2010-02-01 16:00: Analysing the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of drugs in vivo by upgrading in vitro data based on mathematical modelling (Wilhelm Huisinga, National University of Ireland, Maynooth) 2010-02-02 11:00: Mind Reading by Machine Learning: Optimal Experimental Design (Neil Houlsby (CUED)) 2010-02-02 18:15: Stripping Down Science: The Story of the Naked Scientists (Dr Chris Smith) 2010-02-02 19:30: Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo (Professor Austin Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-03 14:00: Adaptive MCMC and Bayesian time-frequency analysis (Richard Everitt, Dept of Statistics, University of Bristol) 2010-02-03 18:30: How do we really bring vision correction to those that need it in the Developing World? (Professor Joshua Silver) 2010-02-04 14:00: Variational inference in graphical models: The view from the marginal polytope (David Knowles and Richard Turner (University of Cambridge)) 2010-02-04 14:30: "Stem Cells in Mammalian epidermis" (Prof. Fiona Watt - Wellcome Trust for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.) 2010-02-04 15:00: You are not a gadget (Jaron Lanier, Microsoft) 2010-02-04 16:00: Separating inter-domain routing and forwarding (Mikko Sarela (Ericsson)) 2010-02-04 16:00: Taking shape; how Drosophila renal tubules find their way (Helen Skaer, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-05 12:00: Learnable representations for natural language (Alexander Clark - Royal Holloway University of London) 2010-02-05 13:15: The role of Gata3 in the emergence of hematopoietic stem cells - a link between the hematopoietic and sympathetic nervous system (Katrin Ottersbach, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) 2010-02-05 14:00: Energy Flow in Interconnected Systems (Professor Jan Willems (K.U. Leuven)) 2010-02-05 14:30: Just How Does One Make Formula One More Exciting? 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Using physics to solve biological problems" (Dr Miodownik- King's College London) 2010-02-11 16:00: Building & running your own web 2.0 service: experience from a local startup (Michael Dales (Camvine)) 2010-02-11 16:00: The Cognitive Architecture of a Mini Brain: Lessons from Honeybees (Martin Giurfa, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) 2010-02-12 12:00: Making the World's Scientific Information (More) Organized, Accessible, and Usable (Ted Briscoe - University of Cambridge) 2010-02-12 12:30: DEVELOPING AND DISSEMINATING EFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS: SCIENCE, POLICY AND ECONOMICS (Prof. David Clark (Institute of Psychiatry, London)) 2010-02-12 13:15: The development of brain asymmetry - from genes to circuits (Steve Wilson, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London) 2010-02-12 14:00: How disordered is a pile of marbles? Numerical techniques to quantify disorder. 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Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-17 14:15: Estimation of Noisy Diffusions (Prof Sofia Olhede, Dept of Statisitcs, University College London) 2010-02-17 18:00: You must be joking; Cities as a force for good in the environment (Professor Bruce Beck, University of Georgia) 2010-02-17 20:00: Building Bridges between Genes, Brains and Language (Dr Simon Fisher) 2010-02-18 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Pedro Ortega and Dan Braun) 2010-02-18 14:30: "Genetics of common obesity - what have we learned from genome-wide association studies?" (Dr Ruth Loos - MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital.) 2010-02-18 16:00: Fifty Years of Wild Chimpanzee Tool Use: Where Do We Stand? (Bill McGrew, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge) 2010-02-18 16:00: Using Program Behaviour to Exploit Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures (Ross McIlroy (MSR Cambridge)) 2010-02-18 16:00: Autocorrelation and Pinwheels in Primary Visual Cortex’ (Prof Horace Barlow and Dr David Berry, PDN, Cambridge) 2010-02-19 12:00: Subjectivity Recognition on Word Senses (Katja Markert - University of Leeds) 2010-02-19 13:15: Shaping and patterning the embryo: Gastrulation in higher vertebrates (Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-19 14:00: Event-triggered sampling for state estimation (Maben Rabi) 2010-02-19 14:00: Processing of Gd-Ba-Cu-O single grain superconductors for high field applications (Professor David Cardwell, CUED) 2010-02-19 14:00: Wires, Reporters and Information Capsules: Cellular journalism with DNA. (Dr. Yamuna Krishnan ( National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India)) 2010-02-19 16:00: Predicting Crystal Nucleation: A New Twist to an Old Story (Daan Frenkel, Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-19 17:30: Risk, Security and Terrorism (Professor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford) 2010-02-22 16:30: CANCELLED "Wiring the brain: how axons are guided to their targets" (Prof. Christine Holt, PDN.) 2010-02-22 17:30: The consequences of Chernobyl, from human health to genetic mechanisms (Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams, Strangeways Laboratory) 2010-02-23 14:30: Regret-regression for optimal dynamic treatment regimes (Robin Henderson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle) 2010-02-23 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Richard Turner (University of Cambridge)) 2010-02-24 16:30: Stats Clinic Lent III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-02-24 17:00: Global Warming and the Melting of the Arctic Ice (Professor Peter Wadhams, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-24 18:00: Cities of the Future (Paul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc.) 2010-02-24 19:30: Our Place in the Cosmos (Dr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy) 2010-02-25 14:00: Cancelled (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-02-25 16:00: Social cognition: lessons from corvids and children (Nicky Clayton, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-25 16:00: "Development and organisation of connectivity in an embryonic motor (Dr Matthias Landgraf) 2010-02-25 16:00: Dynamic Filtering: Multi-Purpose Architecture Support for Language Runtime Systems (Tim Harris (MSR Cambridge)) 2010-02-25 17:00: ' The mechanics of tissue morphogenesis ' (Dr Thomas Lecuit - Developmental Biology Institute, Marseilles.) 2010-02-26 13:15: Lung epithelial progenitor cells in development and repair (Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2010-02-26 14:00: Composite lattice materials (Dr Benjamin Russell, CUED) 2010-02-26 16:00: Coarse-Graining the Hydrodynamics and Brownian Motion of Colloidal Particles (Ard Louis, University of Oxford) 2010-02-26 17:30: Risk and Natural Catastrophes (Professor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory) 2010-03-01 11:00: BlogLearn: A Framework for Analytics over Corporate Blogs (Sudarshan Murthy (Wipro Technologies)) 2010-03-01 16:30: It’s all about context: How the auditory system helps us notice change (Katrin Krumbholz, University of Nottingham.) 2010-03-01 19:30: Sustainable Building in the UK (David Adamson, Director of Smarter Construction in the Office of Government Commerce) 2010-03-01 20:00: Sex and Molecular Evolution (Sir Brian Charlesworth) 2010-03-03 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Ed Bullmore, Department of Psychiatry) 2010-03-03 17:30: Hearing God: an anthropological look at American evangelical Christianity (Professor Tanya Luhrmann) 2010-03-04 14:00: Cancelled (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-03-04 16:00: Detecting Sybil attacks and recommending social contacts from proximity records (Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge)) 2010-03-04 16:00: ‘Seeing is believing: imaging Ca2+-signalling events in living cells’ (Prof Graham McGeown, Queen's University, Belfast) 2010-03-05 12:00: Metaphor in language, thought, and communication (Gerard Steen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 2010-03-05 13:15: Coupling organelle capacity to the cell's needs (David Ron, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2010-03-05 14:00: Life at high péclet number (Professor R Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2010-03-05 16:00: Swarming by Nature and by Design (Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA) 2010-03-05 17:30: Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change (Professor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia) 2010-03-08 13:00: "Bioinformatics in the Pharmaceutical Industry" (Various speakers from GSK) 2010-03-08 16:00: Stochastic Outlier Selection (Jeroen Janssens (Tilburg University / University of Cambridge)) 2010-03-08 17:30: What should we do about the diabetes epidemic? Insights from epidemiology (Dr R Simmons, Department of Public Health) 2010-03-08 18:30: Lessons from the Obama Campaign: Making the Obama Digital Model Work in Politics and Beyond (Joe Rospars, New Media Director for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign) 2010-03-09 11:00: Bayesian Inference in Networks of Queues (Dr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh)) 2010-03-09 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Neil Housby (Cambridge University)) 2010-03-10 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Alex Davies (ANU)) 2010-03-10 11:30: Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Coding (Azadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto)) 2010-03-10 12:30: Recursive CRFs for Scalable Vision (David Duvenaud (UBC)) 2010-03-10 15:00: Characterization of 1000 breast cancer genomes and transcriptomes (Dr Christina Curtis (University of Cambridge)) 2010-03-10 16:30: Stats Clinic Lent IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-03-10 18:00: Delivering genuine sustainability in the built environment - obstacles and opportunities (Dr David Strong CEO, Inbuilt Ltd; Board Member of UK Green Building Council) 2010-03-11 11:00: Making Sense of Data - A Research Agenda (Prof Bob Williamson (ANU and Scientific Director of NICTA)) 2010-03-11 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Eric Xing) 2010-03-11 14:00: Dynamic Network Tomography: Model, Algorithm, Theory, and Application (Prof. Eric Xing (CMU)) 2010-03-11 16:00: Molecular and cellular mechanisms for cold sensing' (Prof Carlos Belmonte) 2010-03-11 16:00: How Google Tests Software (James Whittaker (Google)) 2010-03-11 17:00: Neural mechanisms of sky compass orientation in the desert locust (NOTE LATE START 17:00) (Uwe Homberg, University of Marburg, Germany) 2010-03-12 12:00: Latent TAG Derivations for Semantic Role Labeling (Anoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University) 2010-03-12 16:00: Interfacial Flows in the Presence of Additives (Omar Matar, Imperial) 2010-03-12 17:30: The Copenhagen Accord: A significant 'first step' or a disastrously missed opportunity? (Claire N. Parker) 2010-03-14 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Simon Schaffer, Department of History of Philosophy and Science) 2010-03-15 11:00: Datalog+/- : A Framework for Tractable Query Answering over Ontologies (Pr. Georg Gottlob - Oxford University) 2010-03-15 14:00: Michael Weber, University of Twente; Microsoft Research Lectures (Michael Weber - University of Twente) 2010-03-15 16:00: Learning the structure of graphical models with latent variables (Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge)) 2010-03-16 11:00: Some issues for causal inference in observational epidemiology (Nuala Sheehan, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester) 2010-03-16 11:00: Slice sampling with latent Gaussian models (Dr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh)) 2010-03-18 11:00: Abandoning Prenex Clausal Normal Form in QBF Solving (Martina Seidl - Vienna University of Technology) 2010-03-18 14:00: Sparsification for Gaussian Processes for Regression (Milica Gasic and Anton Ragni) 2010-03-18 14:15: Itakura-Saito nonnegative factorizations of the power spectrogram for music signal decomposition (Dr Cedric Fevotte, CNRS - TELECOM ParisTech) 2010-03-19 11:00: An information-centric transport protocol (Somaya Arianfar (Ericsson)) 2010-03-22 11:00: Networks in Crisis (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-03-23 14:00: Incremental Modelling and Verification of the PCI Express Transaction and Data-Link Layers (Peter Boehm - University of Oxford) 2010-03-24 19:30: Jumping to Delusions - how the brain takes dangerous shortcuts (Professor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2010-03-25 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Francesca D. Ciccarelli Professor of Cancer Genomics | King’s College London| The Francis Crick Institute) 2010-03-25 14:00: Collaborating Swarms, Multi-network Topologies and Constrained Coalitional Games (Professor John Baras (University of Maryland)) 2010-03-26 13:30: Proactive Resilience Revisited: Resisting Intrusions means more than Byzantine Fault Tolerance (Paulo Verissimo - University of Lisbon) 2010-03-30 11:00: Sparse Model Recovery via Iterative Algorithms (Prof. Devavrat Shah - MIT) 2010-03-31 11:00: Opportunistic Spectrum Access with Multiple Users: Learning under Competition (Anima Anandkumar - MIT) 2010-03-31 14:00: Regional Climate Change Impact Assessments, Knowledge Action Networks, and the Cambridge/UCSD Global Water Initiative (Prof Charlie Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California, San Diego) 2010-04-01 14:00: Towards physical basis for Ambient Intelligence – a critical driver for the future of printed electronics and optoelectronics – ‘It’s not the materials, it’s the effects talking’ (Dr Raymond Oliver FREng, FIChemE, CEng - Senior Research Fellow, Royal College of Art) 2010-04-01 16:00: Performance Monitoring in Service Provider Networks (Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison).) 2010-04-06 09:30: Title to be confirmed (Nicholas le Novere (EBI)) 2010-04-06 11:15: Ultrasound elastography (Dr Graham Treece (University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering)) 2010-04-12 14:00: Submodularity and Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Stanislav Zivny - University of Oxford) 2010-04-13 14:00: Learning, Planning and Representing Knowledge from Primitive Experience (David Silver - UCL) 2010-04-15 10:00: Building Algorithms for FPGAs (Rene Mueller - ETHZ) 2010-04-16 14:00: Matrix Inequalities with Matrix Unknowns (Professor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, UC San Diego)) 2010-04-19 14:00: Secrets of the Microsoft SQL Server Query Optimizer (Conor Cunningham - SQL Server Group, Microsoft) 2010-04-19 16:00: A global map of human gene expression (Alvis Brazma (EBI)) 2010-04-19 16:30: “Auditory processing in a "simple" nervous system: Lessons learned from crickets”. (Bertold Hedwig, Dept. of Zoology.) 2010-04-20 14:30: A flexible regression approach using GAMLSS (Mikis Stasinopoulos, London Metropolitan University) 2010-04-20 16:00: Operational Refinement of Image Processing (ORIP) (Yiannis Andreopoulos (UCL)) 2010-04-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Jean-Pascal Pfister (Cambridge University, UK)) 2010-04-21 14:15: Bayesian inference for exponential random graphs - POSTPONED DUE TO TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES (Nial Friel, Associate Professor of Statistics, University College Dublin) 2010-04-22 11:00: A comparison of some recent task-centric parallel programming models (Mats Brorsson - KTH Royal Institute of Technology & Swedish Insitute of Computer Science (SICS)) 2010-04-22 14:00: Bundle methods and its application in machine learning (Eric(Yongqiang) Wang and Rory Waite) 2010-04-22 16:00: Evolutionary genetics of mito-nuclear cooperation, fitness and disease in Drosophila (David Rand, Brown University) 2010-04-23 13:15: Fine-tuning BMP signaling during cell fate specification (Kristi Wharton, Brown University) 2010-04-23 14:00: Incremental Modelling and Verification of the PCI Express Transaction and Data-Link Layers (Peter Boehm - University of Oxford) 2010-04-23 16:00: Dynamics of Stone Arches (Dr Matthew De Jong, CUED) 2010-04-23 16:00: Booming Sand Dunes: An Example of Wave Propagation Through a Granular Material (Nathalie Vriend, DAMTP) 2010-04-26 10:00: On the stability of flow-aware CSMA (Prof. Thomas Bonald - Telecom Paris Tech) 2010-04-26 11:00: Deep Web Data: Analysis, Extraction, and Modelling (Prof. Pierre Senellart - Telecom Paris Tech) 2010-04-26 19:30: Brood Parasitism (Dr Clair Spottiswoode, Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2010-04-28 14:00: The State of Secondary Level Computer Science Education in the USA (Chris Stephenson - Computer Science Teachers Association) 2010-04-28 16:30: Stats Clinic Easter I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-04-28 18:30: Science - facts and frictions (Dr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications) 2010-04-28 19:30: Ape Research in Indonesia - Marrying Science with Conservation (Dr Susan Cheyne, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford) 2010-04-29 00:00: CANCELLED (Olivier Hyrien, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris) 2010-04-29 14:00: Numerical Linear Algebra (Peter Orbanz and John Cunningham (University of Cambridge)) 2010-04-29 14:00: Static Verification of Concurrent Programs using Reduction and Abstraction (Tayfun Elmas - Koc University, Istanbul) 2010-04-29 14:30: "Finding the middle ground: achieving a perfect metaphase plate" (Prof. Patrick Meraldi) 2010-04-29 16:00: Detecting Temporal Sybil Attacks (Neal Lathia (UCL)) 2010-04-29 17:00: Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event (Claire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont) 2010-04-30 10:00: Visual Computing for Next-Generation Display and Imaging (Prof. Oliver Bimber - Institute of Computer Graphics, Johannes Kepler University Linz) 2010-04-30 13:15: Dissecting the role of signalling inhibition during the induction of pluripotency (Jose Silva, Wellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research University of Cambridge) 2010-04-30 15:00: T Upscaling Permeability in a Laboratory Context - Mathematics and Modelling (Patrick Selvadurai, McGill University) 2010-04-30 16:00: The Fluid Trampoline and Beyond (John W.M. Bush, MIT) 2010-04-30 18:00: The Social Life of Digital Libraries: the Second Arcadia Lecture (Professor Daniel Cohen) 2010-05-04 14:00: Optimal experiment design for open and closed loop identification (Professor Michel Gevers (Université catholique de Louvain)) 2010-05-04 16:00: Deep sequencing reveals differential expression of microRNAs in favorable versus unfavorable neuroblastoma (Sven Rahmann (TU Dortmund)) 2010-05-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Professor Daniel Wolpert ( Department of Engineering)) 2010-05-04 18:00: Cloning, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: The World After Dolly (Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 2010-05-05 14:15: Local scoring rules (Dr Matthew Parry, Dept of Plant Sciences and Statisitcal Laboratory, DPMMS) 2010-05-05 16:30: Mapping affective decisions in depression using reinforcement learning tools (Quentin Huys (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)) 2010-05-05 18:00: Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory (Professor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego) 2010-05-06 14:00: Information Retrieval (Jurgen Van Gael and Ed Snelson) 2010-05-06 14:30: "Small RNA and epigenetics in plants" (Prof. Sir David Baulcombe) 2010-05-06 16:00: Experiences of Designing and Deploying Intelligent Sensor Nodes in Construction Sites (Christos Efstratiou (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-06 16:00: How and why desert ants learn habitual routes (Matthew Collett, University of Exeter) 2010-05-07 13:15: Epigenetic mechanisms in mammalian neurogenesis (Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge) 2010-05-07 14:00: Embedded Optimization for Optimal Control of Mechatronic Systems (Professor Moritz Diehl (K.U. Leuven)) 2010-05-07 14:00: The CES hybrid-material synthesizer (Professor M F Ashby, CUED) 2010-05-07 14:00: Active self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton driven by molecular motors (Dr. Gijsje Koenderinck) 2010-05-07 16:00: The Formation of the Collisional Family around the Dwarf Planet Haumea (Zoe M. Leinhardt, DAMTP) 2010-05-10 16:30: “Building the cognitive map - integration of metric and non-metric inputs by entorhinal and hippocampal neurons”. (Kate Jeffery, UCL.) 2010-05-10 19:30: Holographic Technologies (Dr T D Wilkinson, Reader in Photonic Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2010-05-11 11:30: Abstract Interpretation for Liveness using Metric Spaces (Aziem Chawdhary - Queen Mary University of London) 2010-05-11 11:30: Abstract Interpretation for Liveness using Metric Spaces (Aziem Chawshary, Queen Mary University of London) 2010-05-11 14:30: Harnessing social networks for HIV surveillance (Simon Frost, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2010-05-11 18:30: The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global Prosperity (Professor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford) 2010-05-11 19:00: MERCURY - WINDOW ON THE INVISIBLE (Dr Andrea Sella, UCL) 2010-05-12 16:00: EndRE: An End-System Redundancy Elimination Service for Enterprise Traffic (Ram Ramjee (MSR India)) 2010-05-12 16:30: Stats Clinic Easter II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-05-12 18:00: Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April) (Professor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University) 2010-05-13 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Yunus Saatchi and Andrew Wilson) 2010-05-13 16:00: The Allure of the Centipede (Michael Akam, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2010-05-13 16:00: A Heuristic and Hybrid Hash-based Approach to Fast Lookup (Gianni Antichi (University of Pisa)) 2010-05-14 13:15: Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: the repair connection (Petra Hajkova, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre Imperial College London) 2010-05-14 15:15: New Breath: regenerative medicine of the airways (Prof. M. Birchall, Professor of Laryngology and Consultant Laryngologist at The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and Reader in Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Bristol) 2010-05-14 16:00: Differential Geometry and Continuum Mechanics of Proteins (Alain Goriely, University of Oxford) 2010-05-14 17:30: Evidence based policy making: How can government be an intelligent user of science? (Dr. Mils Parker) 2010-05-17 10:00: On Bayes-Nash implementation of combinatorial auctions: structure and efficiency (Prof Bruce Hajek - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 2010-05-17 12:00: Enhancing NLP with Knowledge: Ontology-Based Information Retrieval for Handwritten Text (Marcus Eichenberger-Liwicki, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) 2010-05-17 16:00: Dynamics of molecular clocks expose the lineage relations of cells (Shalev Itzkovitz (MIT)) 2010-05-17 16:00: Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.) 2010-05-17 16:30: “To switch, or not to switch: how the brain answers the question”. (Angela Roberts, PDN.) 2010-05-18 14:00: Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS; Microsoft Research Lectures (Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS) 2010-05-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-19 09:00: Title to be confirmed (Gos Micklem, (CCBI, Genetics, CSBC)) 2010-05-19 10:00: Exploring ODE model uncertainty via diffusions, with application to physiological processes (Dr Kostas Kalogeropoulos, London School of Economics) 2010-05-19 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Paul Sternberg (Caltech)) 2010-05-19 11:45: Gene Expression in Aneuupoid Drosophila (Brian Oliver (NIH)) 2010-05-19 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Matthew Hurles) 2010-05-19 14:30: Quantifiying Adaptive Evolution in the Drosophila Immune System (Frank Jiggins (Department of Genetics)) 2010-05-19 15:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Michele Vendruscolo ( Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-19 16:00: Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.) 2010-05-19 16:30: From phenotypes to pathways: inferring genetic architecture from perturbation maps (Florian Markowetz ( Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute)) 2010-05-19 19:30: Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit? (Dr Giles Yeo, Institute of Metabolic Science) 2010-05-20 12:00: EPSRC Presentation - Why "Impact" Matters (Dr. Cora O'Reilly, EPSRC) 2010-05-20 14:00: Topics in Statistical Machine Translation (Matt Shannon and Sebastien Bratieres) 2010-05-20 14:30: "Genetic analysis of organelle-specific unfolded protein responses". (Prof. David Ron) 2010-05-20 15:00: EPSRC Presentation - Why "Impact" Matters (Dr Cora O'Reilly, EPSRC) 2010-05-20 16:00: Selective Reprogramming in Wireless Sensor Networks (Bence Pasztor (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-20 16:00: From genes to shape: notions from the study of the Drosophila tracheal system (Jordi Casanova, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona) 2010-05-21 13:15: Control of tissue size and shape in Drosophila (Barry Thompson, LRI Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories London) 2010-05-21 14:00: Influence of strain gradients on the deformation of strain-softening material (Professor John Willis, DAMPT) 2010-05-21 14:00: Microfluidics: a tool for discovery and development (Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto) 2010-05-21 14:00: The Corpus Christi Clock (John Taylor) 2010-05-21 16:00: Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer (Kip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA.) 2010-05-21 16:00: Under the Geological Rug: Leakage and Mixing in Carbon Sequestration (Jerome A. Neufeld, DAMTP) 2010-05-24 10:30: From tuning curves to behaviour (Mandana Ahmadi (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL)) 2010-05-24 12:30: Learning predictive models for visual motion extrapolation (Paul Schrater (Depts Psychology & Computer Science, University of Minnesota)) 2010-05-25 14:00: Prof. Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin; MSR Lectures (Prof. Robert Nowak - University of Wisconsin) 2010-05-25 16:00: From RPC to Web Apps: Trends in Client-Server Systems (George Coulouris (Queen Mary University of London & University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-25 19:30: Happy Danes (Dr Luisa Corrado, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) 2010-05-26 16:30: Stats Clinic Easter III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-05-27 12:00: Linguistic Steganography using Automatically Generated Paraphrases (Ching-Yun (Frannie) Chang, University of Cambridge) 2010-05-27 12:30: Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task (Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge) 2010-05-27 13:00: Termites as ecosystem engineers. Water, soils and architecture in _Macrotermes_ mounds in Namibia (J. Scott Turner, Syracuse University USA) 2010-05-27 14:00: Redirected to Rob Nowak, LR12 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-05-27 14:00: A proof rule for multi-threaded programs (Andrey Rybalchenko, Technische Universität München) 2010-05-27 14:15: Adaptive Sensing and Information (Prof Rob Nowak, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 2010-05-27 16:00: Specification of muscle identity in Drosophila (Laurence Dubois, Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse) 2010-05-27 16:00: Before pixels (Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research) 2010-05-28 11:00: SIMPLY COOPERATIVE (Professor Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland)) 2010-05-28 13:00: Practical performance models for complex, popular applications (Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research) 2010-05-28 13:15: Region-specific regulation of neurogenesis by mir-9 (Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester) 2010-05-28 14:00: Insights into disorder (Dr. Tomaso Aste, Materials Dept, Univ. Kent) 2010-05-28 14:45: An Afternoon of Talks by 2nd Year Students (Various) 2010-05-28 16:00: NetSci Conference - Discussion (Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge)) 2010-05-31 18:30: NATO in the 21st Century (Admiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) / Commander, US European Command) 2010-06-01 10:00: Mini course on proof theory (Part 1) (Pierre-Louis Curien, pi.r2 team, PPS Laboratory, CNRS, Paris 7, and INRIA) 2010-06-01 11:30: Hermes: Clustering Users in Large-Scale E-mail Services (Christos Gkantsidis, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2010-06-01 14:00: Images as Sets of Locally Weighted Features (Teo de Campos, University of Surrey) 2010-06-01 14:15: Title to be confirmed (John Aston, University of Warwick) 2010-06-02 11:00: Diffuse Programming (Manuel Serrano - Inria Sophia-Antipolis) 2010-06-03 10:00: Mini course on proof theory (Part 2) (Pierre-Louis Curien, pi.r2 team, PPS Laboratory, CNRS, Paris 7, and INRIA) 2010-06-03 14:00: Conditional Random Fields : Theory and Application (Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-03 14:00: Nearly Isostatic Periodic Lattices (Prof. Tom Lubensky, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania) 2010-06-03 16:00: p38 SAPK signaling protects the Drosophila larval hindgut against chronic stress (Hugo Stocker, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich) 2010-06-04 10:00: Mini course on proof theory (Part 3) (Pierre-Louis Curien, pi.r2 team, PPS Laboratory, CNRS, Paris 7, and INRIA) 2010-06-04 11:00: Anzere: replication policy scaling for personal storage networks (Oriana Riva (ETH)) 2010-06-04 13:15: Cell wars: competition through growth factor signalling (Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge) 2010-06-04 14:00: Physical Aspects of Multicellular Behaviour (Dr. Knut Drescher, DAMTP, Cambridge, UK) 2010-06-04 16:00: Self Assembly and Dynamics in Bacterial Suspensions (Wilson Poon, University of Edinburgh) 2010-06-07 16:00: ChIP-Seq in six Drosophila species reveals a highly similar binding landscape for the developmental transcription factor Twist. 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Austin Zhang and Juan Pino) 2010-06-10 14:00: Geometry of Synthesis: Semantics-directed hardware compilation (Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham School of Computer Science) 2010-06-10 14:30: "Epithelial morphogenesis: the role of polarity and adhesion during Drosophila tracheal system development" (Dr Marta Llimargas) 2010-06-10 16:00: PSIRP: Information-centric Networking (Dirk Trossen (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-10 16:00: Opening a window on primate and afrotherian evolution: new early Tertiary mammals from Algeria and Tunisia (Rodolphe Tabuce, Université Montpellier 2) 2010-06-10 18:30: Guided Tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden (Guided Tour) 2010-06-11 11:00: Message Passing In Centralized Database (Konstantina Palla (Edinburgh)) 2010-06-11 14:00: Using topic models to help cure cancer (Prof Quaid Morris (Toronto)) 2010-06-11 16:00: The Yield Stress Debate (Daniel Bonn, ENS Paris) 2010-06-15 11:00: Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological Problems (Barbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago)) 2010-06-15 14:30: DEFCon: High-Performance Event Processing with Information Security (Matteo Migliavacca (Imperial College)) 2010-06-16 11:00: Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational Bayes (Dr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland)) 2010-06-16 14:15: CANCELLED (Dr Simon Julier, Dept of Computer Science, University College London) 2010-06-16 19:30: Gambling and the brain (Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology) 2010-06-17 15:30: Energy as Syntax - an attempt at a thermodynamical framework for combinatorial molecular networks (Vincent Danos, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics) 2010-06-17 16:00: Seamless Clock Synchronization under Migration (Darryl Veitch (University of Melbourne)) 2010-06-18 14:00: Nanoplasmonics: Classical oscillator physics at the nanoscale (Prof. Stefan Maier, Experimental Solid State Group Department of Physics Imperial College London) 2010-06-21 12:00: Log-linear models with hidden features for label and link prediction (Charles Elkan, University of California, San Diego) 2010-06-21 16:00: A quantitative view of gene expression levels and epigenetic modifications (Sarah Teichmann (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-22 09:00: Information, Networks and Markets (Sanjeev Goyal (Economics), Peter Key (Microsoft Research) and Cambridge Networks Forum) 2010-06-22 11:00: A Socratic method for validation of measurement-based networking research (Walter Willinger (AT&T Labs-Research)) 2010-06-22 14:30: Modelling health scores with the multivariate skew normal (Jane Hutton, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick) 2010-06-25 12:00: Natural mathematical language for the computer (Arnold Neumaier, University of Vienna) 2010-06-25 12:00: Combining Manual Rules and Supervised Learning for Hedge Cue and Scope Detection (Marek Rei, University of Cambridge) 2010-06-28 12:00: Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations (Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-28 12:30: Latent Variable Models of Selectional Preference (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge) 2010-06-28 14:30: Model-based cluster analysis for structured data (Sabine Landau, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London) 2010-06-29 11:00: How to write a great research paper (Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-29 12:30: Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 1 (Several speakers) 2010-06-30 09:30: Presentation skills (Ken Shaw (Benchmark Communication Techniques)) 2010-06-30 11:00: How to give a great research talk (Simon Peyton Jones (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-30 12:30: Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 2 (Several speakers) 2010-06-30 14:00: Rough guide to being an entrepreneur (Jack Lang (University of Cambridge)) 2010-06-30 15:15: Molecular programming (Luca Cardelli (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-30 15:15: Simulating global carbon-climate feedback (Drew Purves (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-30 16:00: From Herding Sheep to Herding Cats: Balancing Compliance and Innovation in the Modular Age of the Internet (Chintan Vaishnav (MIT)) 2010-06-30 16:45: Infer.NET and probabilistic programming (John Winn (Microsoft Research)) 2010-06-30 16:45: Ten things you don’t know about Microsoft (Derick Campbell (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-01 09:30: From data to knowledge (Sydney Brenner (Salk Institute)) 2010-07-01 11:00: Simulation and data analysis with Windows Azure (Austin Donnelly (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-01 11:00: Fun with F#: Solving complex problems with simple code (Anton Schwaighofer (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-01 12:30: Microsoft Research Summer School Posters session 3 (Several speakers) 2010-07-01 14:00: From driving to trafficking: the developing view of the user in computer systems design (Richard Harper (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-01 15:15: From program analysis research to industrial programming language development (Andy Maule (Microsoft)) 2010-07-01 15:35: Static contract checking for Haskell (Dana N. Xu (INRIA)) 2010-07-01 15:55: Communications, Travel and Social Networks since 1840: A Study Using Agent-based Models (Lynne Hamill (University of Surrey)) 2010-07-01 16:45: Tracking and localisation for speech and robotics (Maurice Fallon (MIT)) 2010-07-01 17:05: Acquiring syntactic and semantic transformations in question answering (Michael Kaisser (Microsoft)) 2010-07-01 17:25: To infinity and beyond with nonparametric Bayesian methods (Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge)) 2010-07-02 09:30: Cloud computing for research (Fabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-02 11:00: Computer science (Cancelled) (Tony Hoare (Microsoft Research)) 2010-07-02 14:00: Performance limitations of networked systems with information constraints (Professor Yoshito Ohta (Kyoto University)) 2010-07-02 14:00: Symbolic Techniques in Propositional Satisfiability Solving (Moshe Y Vardi, Rice University) 2010-07-02 14:30: Accelerated substitution rates in non-coding sequence: Gene duplication, transcription factor binding site turnover and biased gene conversion. (Dennis Kostka, Gladstone Institute, UCSF) 2010-07-05 16:00: Uncovering signaling differences between normal and transformed hepatocytes using cell-specific pathway models (Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI)) 2010-07-06 09:00: International Workshop on Tractability; 5-6 July 2010 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-07-06 14:00: Frameworks for segmentation, classification, and nonstationary image processing with applications to disease assessment (Albert Montillo, University of Pennsylvania) 2010-07-07 11:00: Local Action Traces and Abstract Concurrent Separation Logic (Steve Brookes, CMU) 2010-07-07 11:00: Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design (Andreas Krause (Caltech)) 2010-07-08 12:00: Models of Metaphor in NLP (Ekaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge) 2010-07-09 11:00: How can we use digital pens in a collaborative environment? (Michael Haller - Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences) 2010-07-12 11:00: Beyond The Digital Delusion: A Case for Lossy Preservation (Micah Beck (University of Tennessee)) 2010-07-12 11:30: Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian Processes (Dr Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)) 2010-07-12 11:30: Functional methods for the design of shiftable and steerable wavelet transforms (Michael Unser, Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) 2010-07-13 14:00: Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian Processes (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-07-13 14:00: Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian Processes (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-07-14 19:30: Synthetic Biology: Making Artificial Life? (Dr Gos Micklem, Department of Genetics) 2010-07-15 14:30: 'The UK Ladybird Survey: A model citizen science project' (Dr Remy Ware) 2010-07-15 16:00: Sending software to space: a bundle of fun (Lloyd Wood (University of Surrey)) 2010-07-19 10:00: GPU programming: bugs, pitfalls and the importance of correctness in biomedical and scientific applications (Professor Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University) 2010-07-20 14:00: Scalable Parallel Computing with CUDA (James Balfour (NVIDIA)) 2010-07-21 11:00: Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus / Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic Models (Dr. Tomoharu Iwata (NTT)) 2010-07-21 11:00: Post-Silicon Validation: New Frontiers for Formal Verification Research (Alan Hu, University of British Columbia) 2010-07-22 16:00: A Spark in the Cloud: Iterative and Interactive Cluster Computing (Mosharaf Chowdhury (UC Berkeley)) 2010-07-23 11:00: Concurrency and Communication: Lessons from the SHIM Project (Prof. Stephen Edwards, Columbia University) 2010-07-23 14:15: Sensor Networks for the Sake of Security - NOW FRIDAY 23rd JULY (Dr Fredrik Gustafsson, Linkoping University) 2010-07-26 15:00: Efficient Bayesian analysis of multiple changepoint models (Prof Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster)) 2010-07-28 12:00: Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies (Laura Rimell - University of Cambridge) 2010-07-28 14:00: Creating structured and flexible models: some open problems (Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)) 2010-07-29 16:30: Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politics (Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)) 2010-08-03 11:00: Information Asymmetries in Pay-Per-Bid Auctions: How Swoopo Makes Bank (Prof Michael Mitzenmacher - Computer Science, Harvard) 2010-08-04 14:00: Programming models for the Barrelfish multi-kernel operating system (Tim Harris (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)) 2010-08-05 14:00: Search methods based on Monte-Carlo simulation (Martin Müller, University of Alberta) 2010-08-10 16:00: Recent developments on Riemann solvers and application to very complex hyperbolic systems (Professor E F Toro, University of Trento, Italy) 2010-08-13 14:00: The Weiss conjecture for infinite dimensional control systems (Dr Andrew Wynn (Imperial College)) 2010-08-16 11:00: The Little Engine(s) that could: Scaling Online Social Networks (Josep M. Pujol) 2010-08-19 14:00: Frugality in set-system auctions (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-08-23 16:00: Digital Moon and the Challenges of Whole Planet Modeling (Dave Paige (UCLA)) 2010-08-25 14:00: On the Equivalence of Graph Cuts and Max-product Belief Propagation (Danny Tarlow (University of Toronto)) 2010-08-26 16:00: Clouds on the Horizon: Challenges in Building the Next Generation of Computing Infrastructure (Steve Hand (University of Cambridge)) 2010-09-06 11:00: Diderot: A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image Analysis (Professor John Reppy, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Chicago) 2010-09-06 12:00: Semantics, Text, and Biomedical Knowledge Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities (Karin Verspoor - University of Colorado Denver) 2010-09-06 16:00: Unexpected complex dynamics of cellular transcriptional response (Amit Zeisel (Weizmann Institute of Science)) 2010-09-08 16:00: Towards deeply publish/subscribe-based Web (Pekka Nikander (Ericsson Research)) 2010-09-09 13:15: Translational biomedical informatics research in a clinical neurosurgery environment (Xiao Hu, University of California, Los Angeles) 2010-09-10 15:00: Golden-i, a head-mounted computer (Chris Parkinson, Kopin Corporation) 2010-09-13 10:00: Noise and the two-thirds power law (Elon Portuglay, MS Microsoft) 2010-09-15 10:30: Towards Systematic Design of Enterprise Networks (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-09-15 14:00: Testing and fault localization in constraint programs (Lazaar Nadjib, IRISA) 2010-09-16 16:00: Homeostatic growth in the Drosophila intestine (Bruce Edgar, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany) 2010-09-20 11:00: Bayesian Inference with Kernels (Dr Arthur Gretton (UCL)) 2010-09-20 11:00: SSH: A Case Study of Cryptography in Theory and Practice (Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway University of London) 2010-09-20 16:00: Evolutionary Signatures of Strand Specific Mutagenic Processes (Paz Polak (MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin)) 2010-09-21 13:30: Talk1: EmotionSense: A Mobile Phones based Adaptive Platform for Experimental Social Psychology Research, Talk2: Energy-Accuracy Trade-offs in Querying Sensor Data for Continuous Sensing Mobile Systems (Kiran Rachuri (University of Cambridge)) 2010-09-21 16:00: Optimality among optimals: decision making from neurobiological ‘noisy’ signals within the cortico-basal-ganglia system (Javier A. Caballero, Adaptive Behaviour Research Group, Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield) 2010-09-23 14:00: Adaptive Networks and Bio-Inspired Cognition (Prof A. H. Sayed, Electrical Engineering, UCLA) 2010-09-24 13:00: Food Webs, and how they got that way (Stuart Pimm, Duke University (Nicholas School of the Environment)) 2010-09-28 13:30: Day 1 PLM5 (.) 2010-09-28 14:00: Growth, Form and Patterning in Development (Boris Shraiman, KITP University Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA) 2010-09-28 14:30: Sequential activation of apical and basolateral contractility drives ascidian endoderm invagination (Patrick Lemaire, University of Marseille) 2010-09-28 15:00: Matricellular Elasticity and Nuclear Rigidification with Epigenetic implications (Dennis Discher, Biophysical Engineering lab at University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, USA) 2010-09-28 16:00: Understanding How Cell Movements Direct Early Mouse Embryogenesis (Shankar Srinivas, Department of Physiology, anatomy and genetics, University of Oxford) 2010-09-28 16:30: Cell dynamics driving gastrulation in the mouse embryo (Kat Hadjantonakis, Sloan Kettering Memorial, New York, USA) 2010-09-28 17:00: Mechanics in neuronal development (Kristian Franze, Department of Physics. 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(Dr Anton Wutz - Centre for Stem Cell Research, Cambridge.) 2010-10-07 16:00: Adapting and assembling components using Cake, a language of interface relations (Stephen Kell (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-07 16:00: Potassium channel and Calcium signalling in Drosophila learning (James Hodge, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol) 2010-10-08 14:00: Computational analysis of fluid-structure interaction using non-body-fitted grids (Dr Thomas Rueberg, CUED) 2010-10-08 14:00: Bacterial swarming in Pseudomonas A.: socio-microbiology or hydrodynamics? (Prof. Jan Vermant, Unive Leuven, Belgium) 2010-10-08 16:00: Segregation in Granular Material (Jim McElwaine (DAMTP)) 2010-10-11 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS (Professor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP) 2010-10-11 17:30: String Theory - A unifying principle in theoretical physics (Professor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAPTP, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-12 14:15: Adaptive Monte Carlo on multivariate binary sampling spaces (Prof Nicolas Chopin, ENSAE) 2010-10-13 14:00: Why is genomics now unfashionable in drug discovery? (Quin Wills (SimuGen)) 2010-10-13 16:30: Stats Clinic Michaelmas I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-10-13 19:30: BioSoc Squash! (BioSoc Committee) 2010-10-14 09:00: Multi-Agent Systems in Practice: Two Examples (Victor Pérez and Rosa Rodrígues, with an introduction by Javier García (Boeing Research and Technology Europe)) 2010-10-14 14:00: Advanced Scientific Programming in Python (Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-14 16:00: Routing in Equilibrium (Timothy G. Griffin (University of Cambridge)) 2010-10-14 16:00: Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina revealed by two-photon laser scanning and serial block-face scanning electron microscopy (Kevin Briggman (Denk lab), Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg) 2010-10-15 11:30: Engineering Genetic Circuits (Chris J. Myers, University of Utah) 2010-10-15 12:00: Open Problems for Literary Text Generation in the WASP System (Pablo Gervas - Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 2010-10-15 13:15: Modelling early human cell fate decisions using pluripotent stem cells (Roger Pedersen, The Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-15 14:00: Fibre Waviness Defects in Composite Materials (Dr Stuart Lemanski, CUED) 2010-10-15 16:00: Spontaneous wave generation in geophysical fluids (Jacques Vanneste (University of Edinburgh)) 2010-10-15 16:30: How the brain makes decisions (Professor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org)) 2010-10-18 16:00: Deconvolving the epigenome (Thomas Down (Gurdon Institute)) 2010-10-18 16:30: RNA based therapies for neurological and muscle disease (Matthew Wood, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) 2010-10-18 19:30: The Physiology of Autumn (Professor Brian J. Ford, President of CSAR) 2010-10-19 14:30: Badger culling to control bovine TB - its potential role in a science-led policy (Christl Donnelly, Division of Epidemiology, Public Health and Primary Care, Imperial College, London) 2010-10-19 16:00: Parallel dendritic processing and hippocampal spatial representations (Balazs Ujfalussy, Dept. Biophysics, KFKI RIPNP, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) 2010-10-19 18:00: Entrepreneurship Revealed: Building Game Changing Businesses (Niklas Zennström, Co-founder of Skype) 2010-10-19 19:30: 'Dementia and an ageing society' (Professor Carol Brayne, Department of Public Health and Primary Care) 2010-10-20 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Marc Gheoghegan, Reader in Experimental Polymer Science, Univ. Sheffield) 2010-10-20 17:30: 'Infections and Cancer - Results and some Perspectives' (Professor Harald zur Hausen) 2010-10-21 14:00: Herding or a '3rd way to learn' (Simon Lacoste-Julien and Ferenc Huszar) 2010-10-21 14:30: Modeling longitudinal observations with excess zeros and measurement error, with application to nutritional epidemiology (Victor Kipnis, National Cancer Institute, US) 2010-10-21 14:30: Single cell genomics reveals chromosome instability in human cleavage stage embryogenesis (Dr Thierry Voet - Centre for Human Genetics, Leuven.) 2010-10-21 16:00: Is life impossible? Information, sex and the origin of complex organisms (Joel Peck, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex) 2010-10-21 16:00: Discrete Gene Regulatory Networks: A novel approach to configuring sensor network operation (Andrew Markham (Oxford University)) 2010-10-21 19:00: Can we feed 9 billion? (Dr John Emsley) 2010-10-22 12:00: Patent Search: a challenging problem for IR and NL (John Tait - The Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna) 2010-10-22 13:15: Tracking cell and cytoskeletal behaviour to understand tissue morphogenesis in fish and fly embryos (Guy Blanchard, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-22 14:00: Plasmon-induced DNA damage? (Prof. Zdenka Kuncic, University of Sidney) 2010-10-22 14:00: On the structural controllability of networks of linear systems (Lachlan Blackhall) 2010-10-22 14:00: Water vapour sorption kinetics of natural materials and the relationship to the micromechanical behaviour of the cell wal (Professor Callum Hill, Edinburgh Napier University) 2010-10-22 16:00: On Eulerian/Lagrangian Quantum Fluids and Bohmian Measures (Peter Markowich (DAMTP)) 2010-10-25 16:00: Understanding Cyberattack as an Instrument of U.S. Policy (Herbert Lin (The National Academies, USA)) 2010-10-25 16:30: Synaptic processing of visual information in the retina of zebra fish (Leon Lagnado, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2010-10-25 17:30: TENSEGRITY: THE ART AND MATHEMATICS OF PRE-STRESSED STRUCTURES (Dr Simon Guest, Department of Engineering) 2010-10-25 20:00: PhD or no PhD? (PhD Students) 2010-10-27 12:00: BioCaster 2.0: Online text analysis for early alerting of disease outbreaks (Nigel Collier - National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) 2010-10-27 14:15: Improving ARMA-GARCH Forecasting (Prof Petros Dellaportas, Athens University) 2010-10-27 16:30: Stats Clinic Michaelmas II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-10-28 14:00: Cancelled: No RCC (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-10-28 14:30: Stars and sequences - Genomics as a public science (Dr Simone Roedder, Institute of Science and Technology Studies, Bielefeld, Germany) 2010-10-28 16:00: Multi-relational Organization of Large-scale Social Networks in an Online World (Renaud Lambiotte (Imperial College London)) 2010-10-28 16:00: Seeing in the dark: Vision and visual behaviour in nocturnal insects (Eric Warrant, Department of Cell and Organism, University of Lund) 2010-10-28 16:00: Motor circuit dysfunction in a Drosophila model of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (Dr. Wendy Imlach, Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York) 2010-10-29 11:00: Joint Algorithm/Architecture Design of Communication Systems (Prof. Emmanuel Boutillon, Universite Bretagne-Sud) 2010-10-29 13:15: Hox targets in Drosophila (Rob White, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2010-10-29 14:00: self-assembly of colloidal molecules. (Prof. Willem Kegel, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) 2010-10-29 16:00: Design principles for mixers motivated by ergodic theory, or: How fluids mix, and how to make that happen without having to know the answer ahead of time (Stephen Wiggins (University of Bristol)) 2010-11-01 10:00: Probabilistic models for time-series with different underlying dynamics regimes with application to robot imitation learning (Silvia Chiappa) 2010-11-01 16:00: Finding interesting clusters using Bayesian data fusion (Richard Savage (University of Warwick)) 2010-11-01 19:30: Molecular Modelling of Anaesthetics (Dr Pak-Lee Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, Paris) 2010-11-01 20:00: CANCELLED (Dr Julian Hibberd) 2010-11-02 14:00: Affective Technology (Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Laboratory) 2010-11-02 14:30: The competing explanations: Frailty or individual development? Examples from cancer and from network theory (Odd Aalen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo) 2010-11-03 14:00: Executable Strategies for Cellular Decision Making (Jasmin Fisher (Microsoft Research Europe)) 2010-11-03 14:15: Online temporally adaptive parameter estimation with applications to streaming data analysis. (Cristoforos Anagnostopoulos, Statistics Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-03 17:00: Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage? (Professor Susan Smith FBA, Mistress of Girton College) 2010-11-03 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - CLONING, NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND PROSPECTS FOR CELL REPLACEMENT (Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS) 2010-11-04 09:30: Tanner Lectures 2010: Respondents' Discussion (Kate Barker, Gavin Wood, Marja Elsinga, Matthew Bullock) 2010-11-04 13:00: ACS project presentations (Various NLP researchers, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-04 14:00: An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics (Sonia Petrone (Università Bocconi)) 2010-11-04 14:00: A relationship-based approach to the verification of multi-object invariants (Stephanie Balzer, ETH Zurich) 2010-11-04 14:30: Rab protein evolution and the history of the eukaryotic endomembrane system (Prof. Mark Field - Dept of Pathology, Cambridge.) 2010-11-04 16:00: Recommending Social Events from Mobile Phone Location Data (Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-04 16:00: The evolution and function of jaws: a study in taxonomic, morphological and functional variation (Emily Rayfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol) 2010-11-04 16:00: Analysis of synaptic connectivity and function in the cerebellum in vivo (Prof Henrik Jörntell, Lund University, Sweden) 2010-11-05 10:00: Statistical Significance Analysis of Motif Discovery (Patrick Ng) 2010-11-05 12:00: Async in Visual Basic and C# - worth the Await! (Mads Torgersen & Lucian Wischik) 2010-11-05 13:15: Coordinated regulation of cell divisions, migration and differentiation in the developing mouse brain (Francois Guillemot, Division of Molecular Neurobiology, National Institute for Medical Research) 2010-11-05 13:30: Short talks: Mixed Cumulative Distribution Networks; Nonparametric Bayesian community discovery in social networks; Expectation Propagation for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models (Charles Blundell, Lloyd Elliot and Vinayak Rao, Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2010-11-05 14:00: On the Structure-Mechanical Property Relationships of Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials: Nanoindentation, High-Pressure Crystallography and Computational Studies (Dr Jin-Chong Tan, Department of Material Science and Metallurgy) 2010-11-05 14:00: Using SAT Solvers for Cryptographic Problems (Mate Soos, Pierre and Marie Curie University) 2010-11-05 16:00: Bubble instabilities in rigid and flexible vessels (Anne Juel (University of Manchester)) 2010-11-08 11:00: Three Small Steps ... to Reconceiving Machine Learning (Prof. Bob Williamson, Australian National University) 2010-11-08 16:30: The role of temporal fine structure in the perception of pitch and speech; influences of hearing loss and age (Brian Moore, Dept of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge University) 2010-11-08 17:30: THE ANTIBODY REVOLUTION; FROM SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS TO COMPANIES AND MEDICINES (Sir Gregory Winter FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2010-11-08 20:00: What have we learned from structures of the ribosome? (Prof Venki Ramakrishnan) 2010-11-09 11:00: Modelling ecological systems under environmental change. (Matthew Evans, University of Exeter) 2010-11-09 13:00: Multi-scale multi-physics approaches for forecasting weather and climate variability (Keiko Takahashi, Japan Agency for Marine and Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)) 2010-11-09 13:00: How can we model complex ecosystems with stochastic interactions between individuals at different spatial and temporal scales? Some case studies (Tim Benton, University of Leeds) 2010-11-09 19:30: DNA and Cancer (Professor Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit) 2010-11-10 14:00: Bayesian Inference with Kernels (Arthur Gretton, UCL) 2010-11-10 14:00: Bayesian Inference with Kernels (UCL) 2010-11-10 14:00: Decoding Genetic Switches in T Helper Cell Differentiation (Sarah Teichmann (LMB)) 2010-11-10 16:30: Stats Clinic Michaelmas III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-11-10 18:30: Don't Look Now: Representations of Violence in Media (Anthony Lane, Film Critic, The New Yorker magazine) 2010-11-11 11:00: CANCELLED (Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP)) 2010-11-11 14:00: Convex Optimisation (Dave Knowles and David Duvenaud) 2010-11-11 14:30: Post-translational regulation of division versus differentiation in the embryonic nervous system. (Dr Anna Philpott - Hutchinson, MRC Cambridge.) 2010-11-11 16:00: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice of Internet Routing (Geoffrey Xie (U.S. Naval Postgraduate School )) 2010-11-11 16:00: Why pain gets worse - the molecular basis of sensitization (Peter McNaughton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-11 16:00: The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration (Prof Jeremy Brockes, University College London) 2010-11-11 19:00: Delights of Chemistry - Spectacular demonstration lecture (Mike Hoyland, University of Leeds) 2010-11-12 12:00: Event Extraction from Biomedical Texts by Trimming Dependency Graphs (Ekaterina Buyko - JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) 2010-11-12 13:15: The regulation of skeletal muscle development by signaling molecules and microRNAs (Andrea Münsterberg, Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich) 2010-11-12 14:00: CANCELLED (Dr Daniel Balint, Imperial College) 2010-11-12 14:00: Developing cell-scale biomimetic models involving lipid vesicles. (Miglena Angelova, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) 2010-11-12 16:00: Radiative instability of stratified shear flows (Stephan Le Dizes (IRPHE, Marseille)) 2010-11-13 10:00: Cambridge Maths Circle (Staff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty) 2010-11-13 10:15: Hands-on Cambridge Maths Circle workshop: Algorithms (Professor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2010-11-15 12:45: A Language for Mathematics (Mohan Ganesalingam (University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-15 16:00: The evolution and regulation of gene expression levels in mammals (John Marioni (EBI)) 2010-11-15 19:30: Sustainable Energy in the UK (Dr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy & Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission) 2010-11-15 20:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Sir Roy M Anderson) 2010-11-16 13:00: ADER high-order schemes for evolutionary PDEs (Professor E F Toro, University of Trento, Italy) 2010-11-16 14:30: Modelling Relative Survival: Flexible Parametric Models and the Estimation of Net and Crude Mortality (Paul Lambert, Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester) 2010-11-16 16:00: Computational neuroscience journal club (Neil Houlsby) 2010-11-17 14:00: Modelling epidemics: mixing patterns, changing behaviour, and swine flu (Ken Eames (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)) 2010-11-17 14:15: Bayesian Alignment of Unlabelled Marked Point Sets Using Random Fields (Ian Dryden, University of Nottingham) 2010-11-18 09:00: Workshop on the Future of Social Networking: Experts from Industry and Academia (see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/socialnets/program.html) 2010-11-18 11:00: Crowdsourcing data modelling (Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle)) 2010-11-18 13:00: Verification of Imperative Programs Through Characteristic Formulae (Arthur Charguéraud, INRIA) 2010-11-18 14:00: Poisson Processes (Andrew Wilson and Yue Wu) 2010-11-18 14:30: Mind the Gap (phase): kinase signalling cascades in mitotic control in fission yeast. (Prof. Iain Hagan - Paterson Institute, Manchester) 2010-11-18 16:00: DNA combing and massive sequencing of replication intermediates suggest a domino model for replication origin activation in the human genome (Olivier Hyrien, Department of Biology, ENS Paris) 2010-11-18 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-11-19 12:00: Two robust semi-supervised learning algorithms for natural language processing (Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen) 2010-11-19 13:15: Regulation of chromatin organization and epigenetic modifications in embryonic stem cells (Anton Wutz, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-19 14:00: Collective Cell Migration: Leadership, Invasion and Segregation (Dr Alexandre Kabla, CUED) 2010-11-19 14:00: Proteomic and cell biological approaches to the study of clathrin in a vertebrate conditional knockout cell-line (Dr. Tony Jackson, Univ. Cambridge, Neuroscience) 2010-11-19 15:00: Mining Public Transport Usage for Personalised Intelligent Transport Systems (Neal Lathia (UCL)) 2010-11-19 18:30: London 2012 Olympic Games (Denis Oswald, Chairman of the IOC's London 2012 Olympic Commission) 2010-11-22 16:30: Optogenetics: development and application (Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University) 2010-11-22 17:30: FROM VAN DER WAALS TO MODELLING PROTEIN CHRYSTALLISATION (Professor Daan Frenkel FRS, Department of Chemistry) 2010-11-23 10:00: Polynomial Learning of Distribution Families (Kaushik Sinha) 2010-11-23 11:15: Realizability and Parametricity in Pure Type Systems: An application (Jean-Philippe Bernardy, University of Gothenburg) 2010-11-23 13:00: Diffuse interfaces modelling (Richard Saurel, Aix-Marseille University, IUSTI - SMASH Group, France) 2010-11-24 09:30: The strange world of low Reynolds numbers: Fluiddynamics at the micron scale (Professor Holger Stark, Technical University, Berlin) 2010-11-24 16:30: Stats Clinic Michaelmas IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-11-25 14:00: NIPS Highlight Session (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-11-25 14:00: Value Improvement Model for Repetitive Processes (Paul M Gibbons: EngD Research Engineer with Gatwick Airport & Bristol University) 2010-11-25 14:30: The 4-dimensional E.coli chromosome: how a temporal programme can be encoded in a 2D genetic map. (Dr Andrew Travers - Fondation Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la Recherche, Paris.) 2010-11-25 16:00: The CamCube project: Rethinking the data center cluster (Ant Rowstron (MSR Cambridge)) 2010-11-25 16:00: Control of sexual differentiation and behavior by the doublesex gene in Drosophila melanogaster (Stephen Goodwin, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) 2010-11-25 16:00: Rotavirus Calciomics: An Opera in Several Acts (Prof Fabian Michelangeli, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela) 2010-11-26 11:00: Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy Data (Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)) 2010-11-26 12:00: Towards a Stochastic Model of Linguistic Competence (Shalom Lappin - King's College, London) 2010-11-26 12:30: Numerical modelling of two HMX-based plastic-bonded explosives at the mesoscale (Caroline Handley (AWE)) 2010-11-26 13:15: Your inner frog - Can clues from evolution unlock the molecular development of the cerebellum? (Richard Wingate, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London) 2010-11-26 14:00: Numerical solution of partial differential equations with random coefficients: a stochastic finite element approach (Dr Eveline Rosseel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) 2010-11-26 16:00: Watching paint dry: Evaporation mediated self-assembly of nanoparticles (Alex Routh (BP Institute/Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology)) 2010-11-26 17:30: Science in Parliament (Julian Huppert, PhD, Member of Parliament for Cambridge.) 2010-11-29 13:00: Block-structured AMR algorithms for complex hyperbolic applications (Dr Ralf Deiterding, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) 2010-11-29 16:00: Integrative Network Biology and Cellular Information Processing (Rune Linding (ICR)) 2010-11-29 16:30: From reward to Punishment and Invigoration to Inhibition (Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UC London) 2010-11-29 19:30: Human Contact Networks (Dr Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2010-11-30 10:00: Lifted Message Passing: A Step Towards Gaining a 'Big Picture' View on AI (Kristian Kersting) 2010-11-30 11:00: Learning item trees for collaborative filtering with implicit feedback (Dr Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2010-11-30 14:00: Handling temporal variation of unknown characteristics in streaming data analysis. (Chris Anagnostopoulos, Cambridge University) 2010-11-30 14:30: Spatial prediction in the presence of positional error (Thomas Fanshawe, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University) 2010-11-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2010-11-30 20:00: Reading the human genome: the reconstruction of the past (Prof Sydney Brenner) 2010-12-01 14:00: Mathematical models of signaling networks and their application to disease (Julio Saez-Rodriguez (EBI)) 2010-12-01 14:15: Sequential Monte Carlo methods for estimating large scale volatility matrices - CANCELLED (to be rearranged in Lent term) (Dr Kostas Triantafyllopoulos, University of Sheffield) 2010-12-02 11:00: Towards a Non-Commutative Logic of Effects, (Noam Zeilberger) 2010-12-02 12:00: Molecular neuroendocrinology: how the brain builds its peptidergic sprinkler systems. (Paul Taghert, Washington University, St Louis) 2010-12-02 14:00: Submodularity for Machine Learning (Ed Snelson and Rich Turner) 2010-12-02 16:00: Continuous surprises: Live-Cell Imaging reveals that SMG6 and UPF1 inhibit release of nonsense mRNA from the transcription site (Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne) 2010-12-02 16:00: On the Role of Nitrogen Oxides in Acclimatization/Adaptation to Hypoxia (Prof Martin Feelisch, University of Warwick) 2010-12-03 14:00: Kidney Transplantation (Dr. Frederieke Bemelman, Head of Kidney transplants, Hospital of Amsterdam (AMC), Netherlands) 2010-12-03 14:30: Fractals, Failure and Lightweight Structures (Robert Farr, Structured Materials and Process Science Department,) 2010-12-03 16:00: Vortex stretching as a mechanism for quantum kinetic energy decay (Bob Kerr (University of Warwick)) 2010-12-06 11:00: Number Play (Liz Woodham - NRICH, University of Cambridge) 2010-12-06 16:00: Using association-based genetics to understand basic biology (Ewan Birney (EBI)) 2010-12-06 16:30: Neural Circuits for rapid perceptual decisions under uncertainty (Zach Mainen, Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal) 2010-12-07 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK (Speakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie) 2010-12-08 14:00: Molecular dynamics at nanometric length-scales (Prof. Fridrich Kremer) 2010-12-08 16:30: Stats Clinic Michaelmas V (Extra session: note change of venue) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2010-12-09 10:00: Software Lock Elision for x86 Machine Code (Amitabha Roy) 2010-12-09 16:00: Toward Power-aware Networking (Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison)) 2010-12-09 16:00: How Hard is Competition for Rank? (Paul Goldberg, University of Liverpool) 2010-12-10 10:00: Towards Automation of Protein NMR (Babak Alipanahi) 2010-12-10 11:00: Network Economics seminar / Diffusion and Cascading Behavior in Random Networks (Marc LeLarge) 2010-12-13 14:30: Propagation of Rumour Through a Social Network (Vladimir Barash, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2010-12-14 10:00: Improving the energy model of stereo matching algorithms (Michael Bleyer, TU Vienna) 2010-12-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (University of Cambridge)) 2010-12-17 10:00: CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing (Derek Murray, University of Cambridge) 2011-01-06 14:00: Branching vs. Linear Time: Semantical Perspective (Moshe Vardi, Rice University) 2011-01-10 14:00: ATRIUM's Asset Management Software (Terry Pitt (Product Manager)) 2011-01-13 11:00: Novi Quadrianto (Novi Quadrianto, Australian National University) 2011-01-13 16:00: Is Content Publishing in BitTorrent Altruistic or Profit-Driven? (Rubén Cuevas Rumín (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)) 2011-01-14 16:00: Wave breaking and ill-posedness of the perturbation theory for water waves ( Pavel Lushnikov (University of New Mexico)) 2011-01-17 11:00: Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED) (Dr Florian Markowetz (CRUK) - lab visit) 2011-01-18 11:00: Universal Bayesian Agents: Theory and Applications (Prof. Marcus Hutter (ANU)) 2011-01-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Edward Turnham (University of Cambridge)) 2011-01-19 11:00: Experience and problems with compiling data parallel languages (Paul Cockshott, Glasgow University) 2011-01-19 14:15: Flexible Small Cell Green Networks: Breaking the Spectral Efficiency Barrier (Prof Merouane Debbah, Supelec, France) 2011-01-20 14:00: Completely Random Measures (Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge)) 2011-01-20 14:30: Integrating complex genomic datasets and high-throughput cancer cell line screens: linking drug response to molecular signatures (Dr Ultan McDermott - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge) 2011-01-20 16:00: Virtualisation in the Network (Joel Obstfeld (Internet Engineering Group - Juniper Net)) 2011-01-20 16:00: Mammalian phylogenomics and evolution: where are we and what is next? (Frederic Delsuc, CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, France) 2011-01-20 16:00: Neurons feel the force ‐ Mechanosensitivity in the nervous system (Dr Kristian Franze, Dept of Physics & Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ. of Cambridge) 2011-01-21 14:00: Friction between people and fabrics (Dr David Cottenden, CUED) 2011-01-21 14:00: Molecular dynamics at nanometric length-scales (Prof. Fridrich Kremer, University Leipzig, Germany) 2011-01-21 16:00: Coarsening of metallic foams (Anthony Anderson (DAMTP)) 2011-01-21 17:30: Beauty & Truth (Professor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford) 2011-01-24 10:00: Cooperation, Power and Conspiracies (Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research) 2011-01-24 16:30: Dynamics of population activity in visual cortex (Matteo Carandini, Institute of Ophthalmology, UC London) 2011-01-24 20:00: How I got into the mitochondrion (Prof Sir John Walker) 2011-01-25 10:00: Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Microsoft Research Lectures (Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) 2011-01-25 11:00: Mining viral datasets (Dr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge)) 2011-01-25 13:00: Making OpenCL simple with Haskell (Ben Gaster, AMD) 2011-01-26 14:15: Physical Layer Network coding for Next Generation Wireless Broadband Networks (Prof Alister Burr, University of York) 2011-01-26 16:30: Stats Clinic Lent I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-01-26 18:00: Energy Security and UK Energy Policy (Professor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University)) 2011-01-27 14:00: Infinite multiple relational models for complex networks (Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge)) 2011-01-27 16:00: Query Planning in Data Streaming (Eva Kalyvianaki (Imperial College London)) 2011-01-27 16:00: Cell competition through growth factor signalling (Eugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2011-01-27 16:00: Stem Cells and Tissue Homeostasis (Dr 
Kim 
Jensen, 
Anne 
McLaren 
Laboratory 
for 
Regenerative 
Medicine) 2011-01-27 19:00: What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology. (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge) 2011-01-28 13:15: Control of tissue growth by the Hippo signalling pathway in Drosophila (Nic Tapon, LRI Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratories London) 2011-01-28 14:30: Bacterial flagellar filaments: smart structure, smart protein (Professor Chris Calladine, Emeritus Professor CUED) 2011-01-28 16:00: Role of stress fluctuations in dense granular flows (Olivier Pouliquen (IUSTI, Marseille)) 2011-01-28 17:30: Beauty & The Grotesque (Jose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid)) 2011-01-29 10:00: Cambridge Maths Circle (Staff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty) 2011-01-31 16:30: What it takes to become an auditory relay synapse (Gerard Borst, Department of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam) 2011-01-31 17:30: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS (Professor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics) 2011-01-31 20:00: Critical illness and the maladaptive forces of modern medicine (Prof Mervyn Singer) 2011-02-01 11:00: Differential Geometric MCMC Methods (Prof. Mark Girolami (UCL)) 2011-02-01 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (John Patrick Cunningham (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-02 14:00: Open Afternoon for MPhil in Computational Biology (Various speakers associated with the course) 2011-02-02 17:30: Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks (Professor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania) 2011-02-02 18:00: Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed) (Professor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science)) 2011-02-03 10:00: Self Organizing Sensor Networks for Process Monitoring (Gokul Balakrishnan, Master's Exchange Student, Faculty of Informatics, TU Munich.) 2011-02-03 14:00: Machine Learning techniques in computer vision applications (Peter Chan (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-03 14:30: Embryo environment restricts the developmental plasticity of epiblast precursors (Dr Berenika Plusa - University of Manchester.) 2011-02-03 16:00: mRNA localisation at the neuromuscular junction (Alejandra Gardiol, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2011-02-03 16:00: Mathematical models of rumour spreading in complex social networks (Maziar Nekovee (BT / UCL)) 2011-02-03 16:00: How form shapes function; from sensory neurones to the organisation of the primate cortex (Dr 
Mikko 
Juusola, 
Dept 
of 
Biomedical 
Science,
 Univ 
of 
Sheffield) 2011-02-04 13:15: The complex life of small RNAs (Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge) 2011-02-04 14:00: Some recent multiphysics problems in geomechanics (Professor Kenichi Soga, CUED) 2011-02-04 14:00: Active Emulsions (Prof. Seth Fraden, Brandeis University, USA) 2011-02-04 16:00: Spanwise rotation effects on wall bounded flows (P. Henrik Alfredsson (KTH, Stockholm)) 2011-02-04 17:30: Quantum Beauty (Professor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2011-02-07 16:00: Theoretical models of the development of the nervous system (Stephen Eglen (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-07 19:30: Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica (Dr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge) 2011-02-07 20:00: Icons of evolution and charges of fraud (Dr Nick Hopwood) 2011-02-09 16:30: Stats Clinic Lent II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-02-10 14:00: Kernel Methods (Yunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge), Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-10 14:30: Genetic approaches to metabolic disease (Dr Ines Barroso - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton) 2011-02-10 16:00: The evolution of transcriptional regulation (Duncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute) 2011-02-10 16:00: The Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer Prototyping Platform and Home Heating Control using Occupancy Prediction (James Scott (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2011-02-10 16:00: Infection and Autoimmunity: co‐habitation may be a good thing (Prof
. Anne 
Cooke, 
Dept 
of 
Pathology, Univ of 
Cambridge) 2011-02-11 13:00: Conserved principles of movement generation (Mark Churchland, Stanford University) 2011-02-11 13:15: Transcriptional control of stem cell fate: keeping cells in the zone (Brian Hendrich, Centre for Stem Cell Research University of Cambridge) 2011-02-11 14:00: Grains, interfaces and size effects in metal forming (Dr Daniel Balint, Imperial College) 2011-02-11 16:00: Numerical simulation of the clap-fling-sweep of hovering insects (Dmitry Kolomenskiy (Universités d'Aix-Marseille)) 2011-02-11 17:30: The Sound of Beauty (Dr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford) 2011-02-11 19:30: Zero Carbon Britain 2030 (Godfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer) 2011-02-14 16:30: Brain neurons switch each other into pacemaker mode to drive locomotion (Wen-Chang-Li, School of University Sciences, University of St. Andrews) 2011-02-14 17:30: FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS (Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry) 2011-02-15 14:00: Learning and Coordination in Networks (Mengel Friederike, Maastricht University) 2011-02-15 14:30: Dropouts in the AB/BA crossover design (John Matthews, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University) 2011-02-15 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jakob Foerster) 2011-02-16 14:15: Extremes of Random Coding Error Exponents (Dr. Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, CUED) 2011-02-16 18:30: UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency (Margareta Wahlstrom, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator) 2011-02-17 14:00: Optimal weighted nearest neighbour classifiers (Dr Richard Samworth) 2011-02-17 14:00: Something new to measure? Novel approaches to assessing turbulence in systems (Gerry Frizelle) 2011-02-17 14:30: Comparative logical models of signalling networks in normal and transformed hepatocytes (Dr Julio Saez-Rodriguez - Group Leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). joint appointment at EMBL-Heidelberg, Genome Biology Unit, Cambridge.) 2011-02-17 16:00: The Drosophila intestinal epithelium as an immune barrier: from steady-state to pathology (Bruno Lemaitre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) 2011-02-17 16:00: Running dynamic algorithms on static hardware (Simon Peyton-Jones and Satnam Singh (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2011-02-17 16:00: Physical aspects of collective cell migration (Dr 
Alexandre 
Kabla, 
Dept 
of 
Engineering, Univ of 
Cambridge) 2011-02-17 19:30: Untangling Alzheimer's disease (Mr Graham Fraser, Department of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2011-02-18 12:00: Automatic speech act identification in business emails (Rachele de Felice - University of Nottingham) 2011-02-18 13:15: Different flavours of myosin function drive tubulogenesis in the fly embryo (Katja Röper, PDN University of Cambridge) 2011-02-18 14:00: Crack front instability in mode i+iii: experimental and theoretical approaches (Professor Jean-Baptiste Leblond, Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), French Academy of Sciences) 2011-02-18 14:00: Liquid Crystal and Nonequilibrium states in mixed suspensions of mineral colloidal plates and spheres (Prof. Henk Lekkerkerker, University of Utrecht, Netherlands) 2011-02-18 14:00: Simulation, Modelling and Embedded Deployment of Complex Algorithms (Dave Maclay (Mathworks)) 2011-02-18 16:00: Droplet formation and control in microfluidics (Francois Gallaire (EPFL, Lausanne)) 2011-02-18 17:30: Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder (Professor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University) 2011-02-21 16:00: Intrinsically Unstructured Proteins: Regulation and Disease (Madan Babu (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)) 2011-02-21 16:30: Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus (Peter Somogyi, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford) 2011-02-21 16:30: Temporal co-operation of distinct neuronal types in the hippocampus (Peter Somogyi, MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, University of Oxford:) 2011-02-21 19:30: Peanut Allergies (Dr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust) 2011-02-21 20:00: Life in the Universe: Chance or Necessity? (Dr Nick Lane) 2011-02-22 10:00: Logic and Probability: The Computational Connection (Adnan Darwiche, UCLA) 2011-02-22 14:30: A Causal Diagram Approach to Evidence Synthesis (Ian Shrier, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University, Canada) 2011-02-23 16:30: Stats Clinic Lent III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-02-23 18:00: Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities (Professor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre)) 2011-02-24 14:00: Post-NIPS Highlight session (MLG Members) 2011-02-24 14:00: Sustainable Computing (Gerard Briscoe) 2011-02-24 14:30: Gene Regulatory Networks for Vertebrate Mesoderm Specification (Dr Matt Loose, School of Biology, University of Nottingham) 2011-02-24 16:00: Media landscape in Twitter: A world of new conventions and political diversity (Jisun An (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-24 16:00: Epithelial repair in Drosophila (Antonio Jacinto, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal) 2011-02-25 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2011-02-25 12:00: Categorical Compositionality for Distributional Semantics, Without Tears (Edward Grefenstette, University of Oxford) 2011-02-25 13:15: Morphogenesis of the adult abdominal epidermis of Drosophila: A matter of constriction and migration (Marcus Bischoff, Zoology University of Cambridge) 2011-02-25 14:00: Mechanics and growth of tissues (Jean-Francois Joanny, Institute Curie) 2011-02-25 14:00: Model Predictive Control Design and Implementation for Spacecraft Rendezvous (Ed Hartley (University of Cambridge)) 2011-02-25 16:00: Modelling drops on micropatterned surfaces (Julia M. Yeomans (University of Oxford)) 2011-02-25 17:30: Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives (Professor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland) 2011-02-28 16:30: The ‘in’ and ‘out’ of hippocampal GABAergic interneurons (Peter Jonas, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Vienna) 2011-02-28 17:30: UNDERSTANDING AND CURING CANCER: LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (Professor Gerard Evan FRS, Department of Biochemistry) 2011-02-28 20:00: Inherit the Wind - Free film screening! (BioSoc / TCSS) 2011-03-01 18:30: Driving innovation into application: the passion behind creating a Biotechnology company (Professor Chris Lowe) 2011-03-02 18:00: A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time (Dr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative)) 2011-03-03 10:00: Frugal Procurement Auction Design (Mahyar Salek, University of Southern California) 2011-03-03 14:00: The effect of normalization -- a case study in speech synthesis (Matt Shannon (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-03 14:30: Transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils (Dr Elizabeith Murchison - Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.) 2011-03-03 16:00: The origin and evolution of vision (Dan Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden) 2011-03-03 16:00: Can physiology and neuroscience help us understand the financial markets? (Dr 
John 
Coates, 
Judge 
Business 
School, Univ of 
Cambridge) 2011-03-03 16:00: Promoting location privacy... one lie at a time (Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-03 17:30: Science in Emergencies (Andrew Miller, MP and Chair for the Science and Technology Select Committee) 2011-03-04 10:30: Probabilistic matrix factorization for reconstruction of missing data (Dr Alexander Ilin (Aalto University)) 2011-03-04 11:30: Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab Priors (Dr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid)) 2011-03-04 12:00: Surprisingly Efficient Parsing for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalised-Grammar Parser (Stephen Clark and Yue Zhang - University of Cambridge) 2011-03-04 13:15: The Planar Cell Polarity pathway in lung development and disease (Charlotte Dean, MRC Harwell) 2011-03-04 14:00: Multivariant gradient assemblies of oligomers and polymers on flat surfaces (Prof. Jan Genzer, North Carolina State University, USA.) 2011-03-04 16:00: Optimal stirring for passive scalar mixing (Charlie Doering (University of Michigan)) 2011-03-04 17:30: Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives (Professor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield) 2011-03-07 16:00: Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS) 2011-03-07 16:00: Evidence of non-random mutation rates suggests a risk management strategy for bacterial evolution (Nicholas Luscombe (EBI)) 2011-03-07 16:30: Neural circuits co-ordinating sleep, feeding and reward (Denis Burdakov, Dept of Pharmacology, Cambridge University) 2011-03-07 19:30: Mathematics of Complex Systems (Dr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2011-03-08 13:00: Ultra-High Resolution Atmospheric Modeling Using Cut Cells (Hiroe Yamazaki, Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan) 2011-03-08 14:00: RFID technology in hospital environments: A case study (Dr. Luisa Andreu (University of Valencia)) 2011-03-08 16:30: Stats clinic Easter III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-03-08 18:30: The Beauty of Data Visualization (David McCandless) 2011-03-09 14:00: Persistence and control of bTB in Great Britain (Andrew Conlan (Vet School)) 2011-03-09 16:00: Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS) 2011-03-09 16:30: Stats Clinic Lent IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-03-09 18:00: Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks (Profesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy)) 2011-03-09 18:00: This Time it Will be Different (Sir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG) 2011-03-10 10:00: BiPhased Antenna Technology demonstration (Alex C. Y. Wong) 2011-03-10 12:00: Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigm (Prof. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State)) 2011-03-10 14:30: Many ways to make ends meet: orchestration of DNA double-strand break repair processes by the NHEJ pathway (Prof. Aidan Doherty - Genome Damage & Stability Centre, University of Sussex.) 2011-03-10 14:30: Deep Belief Networks for Phone Recongition (Rory Waite and Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-10 16:00: Neural and mechanical mechanisms of multifunctionality (Hillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA) 2011-03-10 16:00: Physiological and pathological plasticity in identified hippocampal inhibitory interneurons (Dr
 Karri 
Lamsa,
 Dept 
of 
Pharmacology, 
Univ 
of 
Oxford) 2011-03-10 16:00: Improving Content Delivery Networks by Tracking Geographic Social Cascades (Salvatore Scellato (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-10 19:00: Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy (Prof. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)) 2011-03-11 12:00: Relational-Realizational Syntax: An Architecture for Describing and Parsing Rich Morphosyntactic Descriptions (Reut Tsarfaty - Uppsala University) 2011-03-11 13:15: Exploring the origin of leaves (Jill Harrison Plant, Sciences University of Cambridge) 2011-03-11 14:00: Architecture characterisation of fibre network materials. MIcro-computed tomography and image analysis (Mr Dimitris Tsarouchas, CUED) 2011-03-11 16:00: Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference (Prof Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'ENS) 2011-03-11 16:00: Microswimmers, nanoswimmers and microfluidic mixers: The role of hydrodynamic interactions and fluctuations (Ramin Golestanian (University of Oxford)) 2011-03-11 17:30: The Science and Beauty of Nebulae (Dr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) 2011-03-14 16:30: Making sense of scents, the mammalian olfactory system (Stuart Firestein, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York) 2011-03-14 17:30: SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS (Professor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science) 2011-03-15 11:00: Exponential Conditional Volatility Models (Prof Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge)) 2011-03-15 13:00: Phase diagrams from first principles using Gaussian Approximation Potentials (Gabor Csanyi) 2011-03-15 14:00: Reasoning about concurrent stochastic systems (Radu Mardare, Aalborg University) 2011-03-15 14:30: Sensitivity of parameter estimates of marginal and random-effects models to missing data (Rumana Omar, Department of Statistical Science, UCL) 2011-03-16 15:00: Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed Embedded Systems (Professor Richard Murray (Caltech)) 2011-03-16 18:00: Decarbonising the transport system (Professor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover)) 2011-03-17 10:00: Parameter Search and Robustness Analysis from Temporal Logic Specifications in Biochemical Reaction Networks (Aurélien Rizk) 2011-03-17 14:00: Exchangeability (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-17 16:00: foraging: from nature to molecule (Marla Sokolowski, University of Toronto, Canada) 2011-03-17 17:30: Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction Sector (Prof. Jeremy Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Communities & Local Government and Global Research Director of Arup) 2011-03-18 11:00: Energy Minimization with Label Costs and Applications in Multi-Model Fitting (Boykov Yuri, The University of Western Ontario) 2011-03-18 13:00: Optimization for Pixel Labeling Problems With Structured Layout (Olga Veksler, the University of Western Ontario) 2011-03-18 14:00: Electrochemical detection in nanochannels: a new single-molecule technique (Prof. Searge J. G. Lemay, University of Twente, The Netherlands) 2011-03-21 11:00: Nonlinear Dynamics of Learning (Prof. Max Welling (UC Irvine)) 2011-03-21 11:00: Hidden Markets: Designing Efficient but Simple Electronic Markets (Sven Sueken, Harvard University) 2011-03-21 19:30: High Temperature Superconductors (Professor David A Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2011-03-22 10:00: Machine Learning for WLAN Positioning (Teemu Roos, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT) 2011-03-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2011-03-22 18:00: Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate change (Dr Bryan Lovell) 2011-03-23 18:00: Is evolution predictable? (Professor Simon Conway Morris, Department of Earth Sciences) 2011-03-23 19:30: The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancers (Professor Mike Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2011-03-24 16:00: CIEL: a universal execution engine for distributed data-flow computing (Derek Murray (University of Cambridge)) 2011-03-24 18:00: Changing nature: a view of Britain and Cambridge (Norman Maclean, Brian Eversham) 2011-03-25 18:00: You are what you hear: music and the brain (Dr Harry Witchel, University of Bristol) 2011-03-27 15:00: Bird tango (Professor Nicky Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology) 2011-03-28 10:00: Software Synthesis using Automated Reasoning (Ruzika Piskac, EPFL) 2011-03-28 11:15: “Otherworld” - Giving Applications a Chance to Survive OS Kernel Crashes (Alexandre Depoutovitch, University of Toronto) 2011-03-28 16:00: From data to bench to bedside - prognostic markers and therapeutic targets in breast cancer (Gyan Bhanot (Rutgers)) 2011-03-29 09:30: Learning generative models of images by factoring appearance and shape (Nicolas Heess) 2011-03-29 14:00: On a first-order primal-dual algorithm with applications to convex problems in computer vision (Thomas Pock, Graz University of Technology) 2011-03-29 15:30: Longitudinal Evaluation of API Usability and Designing Support for Collaborative Search around the Tabletop (Jens Gerken, University of Konstanz) 2011-03-30 11:00: Executable Knowledge for Molecular Systems Biology (Walter Fontana, Harvard Medical School) 2011-03-30 14:00: Research of the new Computer Vision and Mulitmodal Computing at MPI Sarrbruecken (Bernt Schiele, MPI Saarbrueck) 2011-03-31 13:00: Enforcing topological constraints in energy-based image segmentation (Christoph Lampert, IST Austria) 2011-03-31 14:00: Software testing in Safety Related Systems: A case study from Nuclear Industry (Nirav Chokshi, C&I Engineer, Data Processing & Control Systems Group C&I Services Branch EDF) 2011-03-31 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Arogyaswami J Paulraj , Stanford University) 2011-04-01 10:00: High-level Languages for Low-level Systems (Geoffrey Mainland, Harvard University) 2011-04-01 13:00: Modelling Needs Related to Case Studies in the Sanitary Engineering Sector (Prof. Marco Ragazzi, University of Trento, Italy) 2011-04-01 14:00: A Step Beyond The State Of The Art Robust Model Predictive Control Synthesis Methods (Dr Sasa V. Rakovic (University of Oxford)) 2011-04-04 10:00: Optimization under Uncertainty: Understanding the Correlation Gap (Shipra Agrawal, Stanford) 2011-04-04 11:15: Programming-Language Techniques for Secure Cryptography (Santiago Zanella Béguelin, IMDEA) 2011-04-04 16:00: Do modules or pathways help predict breast cancer outcome? (Gunnar Klau (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam)) 2011-04-05 10:00: Tracking and Analysis of Animal Movement (Robin Freeman, Microsoft Research) 2011-04-05 14:30: Patterns of vulnerability in pregnancy and early childhood: Measurement, interactions, effect moderation and random coefficients in latent variable models (Andrew Pickles, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London) 2011-04-05 14:30: Financial Market Data, disruption issues and risk mitigation (Kiou Nayer Nouri, Director: Global Head of Market Data Commercial Management, Barclays Capital and Wealth) 2011-04-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Armin Lak (University of Cambridge)) 2011-04-06 15:00: Guessing Program Annotations with Probabilistic Inference (Aditya Nori, Microsoft Researcher) 2011-04-06 16:30: Easter vacation Statistics Clinic (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-04-07 09:30: Representing and Querying Large-scale Uncertainty (Prithviraj Sen) 2011-04-07 10:30: Training Random Forests with Ambiguously Labeled Data (Christian Leistner) 2011-04-07 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Arogyaswami J Paulraj, Stanford University) 2011-04-07 16:00: Condensing the cloud: running CIEL on many-core (Malte Schwarzkopf (University of Cambridge)) 2011-04-08 10:00: 3D Reconstruction meets GPGPU meets Image Analysis (Christopher Zach) 2011-04-08 10:40: Spatial Tactile Feedback Support for Mobile Touch-screen Devices (Koji Yatani, University of Toronto) 2011-04-08 15:00: Molecular evolution of stochastic switching (Orkun S. Soyer, University of Exeter) 2011-04-08 15:00: Molecular evolution of stochastic switching (Orkun S. Soyer, University of Exeter) 2011-04-11 09:30: Active visual category learning (Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, University of Texas at Austin) 2011-04-11 10:00: SSLShader: Cheap SSL Acceleration with Commodity Processors (Keon Jang, KAIST) 2011-04-11 10:40: Modeling and Evaluating Information Retrieval Results (Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Sheffield) 2011-04-11 11:00: Characterization of the Ewens-Pitman family of random partitions by a deletion property and a de Finetti-type theorem for exchangeable hierarchies (Chris Haulk (UC Berkeley)) 2011-04-11 11:15: Towards a Colonic Crypt Model with Realistic, Deformable Geometry (Sara-Jane Dunn, University of Oxford) 2011-04-11 14:00: Efficient Data Structures for Nonlinear Video Processing (Jiawen Chen, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) 2011-04-11 19:30: Referendum Debate (Voting YES: Peter Facey, Director of Unlock Democracy. Voting NO: Richard Normington, Former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate.) 2011-04-12 09:20: Formal Methods in Synthetic Biology (Boyan Yordanov, University of Boston) 2011-04-13 10:00: Delay Reduction for Adaptive Scheduling in Wireless Networks and Aggregated Equilibrium for Resource Sharing Games (Loc Bui, Stanford University) 2011-04-14 09:30: Understanding and conserving biodiversity in a changing world (Robert Bagchi, Durham University) 2011-04-14 09:30: Politics, Preferences and Permutations: Probabilistic Reasoning with Rankings (Jonathan Huang) 2011-04-14 14:00: The Complexity of the Homotopy Method, Equilibrium Selection, and Lemke-Howson Solutions (Rahul Savani, University of Liverpool) 2011-04-15 14:00: Fifteen Years of Field Robotics in Australia (Prof Hugh Durrant-Whyte FRS) 2011-04-18 09:00: CRUK computational biology day (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-04-20 10:00: Can We Defy Nature’s End? (Lucas Joppa, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2011-04-20 11:10: Fuzzy thinking: single neuron variation in RNA state space (Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania) 2011-04-21 11:30: Coding problems involving values and their positions (Dr. Claudio Weidmann, ENSEA, France) 2011-04-26 09:30: Turing and Darwin: Saving the environment by combining computation and human insight (Gareth Russell, New Jersey Institute of Technology) 2011-04-26 13:45: Algorithmic Market Design: Spectrum Sales and BitTorrent Communities (Ian Kash, Harvard University) 2011-04-26 19:30: DNA Profiling of Horses (Susan Gurney, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education) 2011-04-27 18:30: Sir Richard Dearlove (Sir Richard Dearlove) 2011-04-27 19:30: Why We Resist The Truth (Clive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra) 2011-04-28 14:30: ''How Cells Defend Their Cytosol Against Bacterial Invasion'' (Dr Felix Randow, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2011-04-28 16:00: Transient population dynamics: implications for life history, evolution and conservation (Stuart Townley, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter) 2011-04-28 16:00: Intrinsically irregular spiking in a class of cortical inhibitory interneuron (Dr Hugh Robinson, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Univ of Cambridge) 2011-04-28 17:00: Short presentations of finite groups (Alex Lubotzky) 2011-04-29 14:30: From three-dimensional weavings to swollen corneocytes (Ms Myfanwy Evans, Australian National University) 2011-04-29 16:00: Fluid structure interaction of a microcapsule in flow (Anne-Virginie Salsac, UT Compiegne) 2011-05-03 10:30: Bringing Intelligence at the Edges to Accommodate Diversity in the Internet (Fahad Dogar, Carnegie Mellon University) 2011-05-03 14:00: Umbrella Sampling with Laser Tweezers: Measurement of the Pair Potential of Charged Colloidal Stars (Prof. Seth Fraden ( Brandeis University, USA)) 2011-05-03 14:00: Probing Soft Structures (Prof. Peter Schall, vander Waals Zeeman Institute, Univ. Amsterdam) 2011-05-04 13:00: Navigational guidance systems in the human brain (Hugo Spiers, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience) 2011-05-04 18:00: Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream? (Dr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida) 2011-05-04 18:30: Director-General of the BBC (Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC) 2011-05-05 16:00: From mice to molecules: the genetic basis of adaptation (Hopi Hoekstra, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA) 2011-05-05 16:00: Hybrid binary rewriting for memory access instrumentation (Amitabha Roy (University of Cambridge)) 2011-05-05 16:00: Loopy Lungs in Alligators (Prof Colleen G. Farmer, Dept of Biology, Univ of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA) 2011-05-06 12:00: Accurate CCG Parsing with Approximate Language Intersection and Task-specific Optimization (Michael Auli) 2011-05-06 13:15: Dissecting mRNA localisation mechanisms during Drosophila development (Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2011-05-06 14:00: Micromechanical modelling of the mechanical behaviour of semi‐crystalline polymers (Dr Hans van Dommelen, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2011-05-06 14:00: What's under the bonnet? A review of Diesel Engines and their control (Peter Fussey (Ricardo)) 2011-05-06 16:00: Reacting plumes and growing icicles: two experiments (Stephen Morris, University of Toronto) 2011-05-09 10:00: Active visual category learning (Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan) 2011-05-09 15:00: Automatic understanding of social scenes (Maria O'Connor) 2011-05-09 16:30: The adaption of rod photoreceptors to light (Gordon Fain, Department of Physiological Science, University of California, USA) 2011-05-09 19:30: Doing Mathematics online, and in the open (Professor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-10 16:00: Group Processes and Local Network Dynamics (James Kitts (Columbia University, School of Business)) 2011-05-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department)) 2011-05-10 17:30: Efficiency, sufficiency, growth: which way to a low carbon society? (Dr Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds) 2011-05-11 16:30: Stats clinic Easter I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-05-12 14:00: Expectation Propagation for POMDP Spoken Dialogue Models (Blaise Thomson, Dialogue Systems Group, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-12 14:15: Visual informatics (Halimah Badioze Zaman, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) 2011-05-12 14:30: ''How SUMO talks to ubiquitin'' (Professor Ron Hay - Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee) 2011-05-12 16:00: Calcium channels of vascular remodelling (Prof David J Beech, Inst of Membrane & Systems Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Univ of Leeds) 2011-05-12 16:00: Mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling in Drosophila epithelia (Isabel Guerrero, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain) 2011-05-12 18:30: Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit (Tour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden)) 2011-05-13 12:00: To what extent does the acquisition of conceptual categories depend on language? (Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-13 13:15: Cilia in development and disease (Dominic Norris, MRC Harwell) 2011-05-13 14:30: Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates (Professor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) 2011-05-13 14:30: Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates (Professor Michael Thouless (University of Michigan)) 2011-05-13 16:00: Dense suspension rheology, normal stresses, and migration (Elisabeth Guazzelli, GK Batchelor Lecturer, IUSTI Marseille) 2011-05-16 14:00: Towards a comprehensive assessment of the interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the climate system (Soenke Zaehle, Max Planck Institute) 2011-05-16 16:00: Allele specific expression design using short read DNA sequencing and application to the genetics of autoimmune disorders (Vincent Plagnol (UCL)) 2011-05-16 16:00: Revisiting delay-based TCP, and implementing 'stateless' TCP for HTTP servers (Grenville Armitage (Swinburne University of Technology)) 2011-05-16 20:00: Postponed (Prof Sir Martin Evans) 2011-05-17 10:00: How to Make Ad Hoc Proof Automation Less Ad Hoc (Derek Dreyer) 2011-05-17 14:30: Experience and challenges of applying Bayesian methods in food safety risk assessments (Dr. Marc Kennedy, The Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera), Risk and Numerical Sciences (RANS) team) 2011-05-17 19:30: Zero Degrees of Empathy (Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre) 2011-05-19 14:00: Purchasing Medical Devices in Hospitals Safely (Saba Hinrichs MEng PhD, Healthcare Design, Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-19 14:00: On Over-fitting in Model Selection and Subsequent Selection Bias in Performance Evaluation (DR. Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2011-05-19 14:30: ''Deciphering Mechanisms of Endoderm Development and Disease'' (Dr Heiko Lickert - Institute of Stem Cell Research, German Research Centre for Enviromental Health, Munich) 2011-05-19 16:00: Glutamine and its role in synaptic physiology (Dr
 Brian 
Billups, 
Dept of 
Pharmacology, Univ of 
Cambridge) 2011-05-19 16:00: Calico: Disciplined Work-Stealing for Varying Core-Counts (Ross McIlroy (MSR) and Steven Smith (University of Cambridge)) 2011-05-19 16:00: Friends at the ends: a dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips (Anna Akhmanova, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) 2011-05-19 19:00: Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry (Philip Ball, prizewinning science writer) 2011-05-20 10:00: Fences and Stability in Weak Memory Models (Jade Alglave, University of Oxford) 2011-05-20 12:00: Minimum Bayes-Risk Lattice Rescoring Methods for Statistical Machine Translation (Graeme Blackwood, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-20 13:15: Genomics and development of the myriapod Strigamia maritima: an outgroup for comparison with insects and crustaceans (Michael Akam, Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-20 14:00: What NanoAssembly can do for real world Nano-applications (Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-20 14:00: 13 'APS' talks (2nd year PhD students, DAMTP) 2011-05-20 14:00: Colloidal Gas-Liquid-Solid phase transitions induced by the Critical Casimir Effect (Dr. Peter Schall, University of Amsterdam) 2011-05-23 14:00: Maintenance optimisation of complex engineering assets (Nipat Rasmekomen, DIAL, IfM, University of Cambridge.) 2011-05-23 19:30: Genomes, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery: What Can Academia Contribute? (Emeritus Professor Sir Tom Blundell, FRS, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-23 20:00: BioSoc AGM (BioSoc members) 2011-05-24 11:00: An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning (Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory)) 2011-05-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr.Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2011-05-25 16:30: Stats clinic Easter II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-05-26 14:00: Connections between Gaussian Process Regression, Kalman filtering and RTS Smoothing (Simo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland) 2011-05-26 16:00: On the social scientific value of transactional data (Ben Anderson (University of Essex)) 2011-05-26 16:00: Genetics and physiology of growth in Drosophila (Pierre Leopold, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, University of Nice, France) 2011-05-26 16:00: Stemming Vision Loss Using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing (Prof Pete Coffey, Inst of Ophthalmology, University College London) 2011-05-27 13:15: Coincidence, cause & consequence: How can we know in developmental gene regulation? (Boris Adryan, Systems Biology Centre, University of Cambridge) 2011-05-27 14:00: Porous Multilayers: Novel Multifunctional Optical Materials for Applications (Dr. Hernán Míguez, Institute of Materials Science of Seville, Spain) 2011-05-27 16:00: Unsteady plumes and explosive volcanism (Matthew Scase, University of Nottingham) 2011-05-27 18:00: Science in the service of the developing world (Prof. Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for International Development) 2011-06-01 14:15: Sigma-Points, Cubatures and Rao-Blackwellization in Recursive Bayesian Estimation (Simo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland) 2011-06-02 16:00: Networks in Natural Language Processing (Stephen Clark and Sandro Bauer (University of Cambridge)) 2011-06-02 16:00: The development and modulation of amphibian motor control systems (Keith Sillar, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland) 2011-06-03 11:00: Censored Exploration in Dark Pools (Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)) 2011-06-03 11:00: Programmable Self-Assembled DNA-Based Autonomous Molecular Devices (John Reif, Duke University) 2011-06-03 12:00: Language in 3D: semantic tensor space (Tim Van de Croys - University of Cambridge) 2011-06-03 13:15: Actin + oocyte: Old love - new affairs (Melina Schuh, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2011-06-03 14:00: Size Effects on Tensile Strength and Failure Mechanisms of Carbon/Epoxy Composites (Professor Michael Wisnom, University of Bristol) 2011-06-03 16:00: Anisotropic sea ice mechanics (Danny Feltham, UCL) 2011-06-05 12:30: Unsupervised Entailment Detection between Dependency Graph Fragments (Marek Rei, University of Cambridge) 2011-06-06 11:00: Is my model too complex? Evaluating model formulation using model reduction (Professor Neil Crout, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham) 2011-06-06 19:30: Controlling the diabetes epidemic. Is screening the way forward? (Dr Rebecca Simmons, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge) 2011-06-07 11:00: An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning (Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory)) 2011-06-07 11:15: Modeling Social Agents (Professor Catherine Pelachaud) 2011-06-07 14:00: Computing for Development: A New High Impact Research Area (Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, NYU) 2011-06-07 14:30: Assessing surrogacy using linear mixed models and the surrogate threshold effect (Dr. Sally Galbraith, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales, Australia) 2011-06-07 14:30: ISMM research project talks (DIAL ISMM students) 2011-06-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2011-06-08 14:00: Aggregation of Gap Junctions (Prof. Phillip Pincus, Univ. of California Santa Barbara, USA) 2011-06-08 16:30: Stats clinic III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-06-09 10:00: Efficient space-variant deconvolution (Stefan Harmeling, Max-Planck Institute) 2011-06-09 14:00: The Value of Intelligent Products in Supply Chain Management (Vaggelis Giannikas, DIAL, IfM, University of Cambridge) 2011-06-09 14:00: Coming to Grips with Complexity in Computer-Aided Verification (Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research Redmond) 2011-06-09 16:00: Trying to make sense of all that nonsense (-mediated mRNA decay) (Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland) 2011-06-10 12:00: A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts (Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge) 2011-06-10 13:15: Map3k4 and Sry in mammalian sex determination (Andy Greenfield, MRC Harwell) 2011-06-10 16:00: 1 October 1968 to 30 September 2011 (Herbert Huppert, ITG, DAMTP) 2011-06-14 14:30: The Natural History and Predictive Factors of Long Term Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Analysis from the Hopkins Lupus Cohort (Penny Watson, School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield) 2011-06-14 19:30: Learning about learning - a new approach to studying Huntington's Disease (Professor Jenny Morton, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology) 2011-06-15 16:15: Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars (Professor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden) 2011-06-16 10:00: Value creation in closed loop supply chains and the role of information management (Erwin van der Laan, Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam School of Management) 2011-06-16 11:00: Industrial Energy Efficiency with Automation (Ikechukwu Ofodu Postgraduate Student, DIAL, IfM) 2011-06-16 16:00: Microfossils for macroevolution: planktonic foraminifera, the Court Jester and the Red Queen (Prof. Andy Purvis, Imperial College, London) 2011-06-16 16:00: Exploiting Temporal Complex Network Metrics in Mobile Malware Containment (John Tang (University of Cambridge)) 2011-06-17 09:00: Social Network, Personality, and Performance (Ronald Burt, University of Chicago) 2011-06-17 09:45: Optimal Communication in Teams (Andreas Galeotti, University of Essex) 2011-06-17 11:45: Social networks, institutions, and the process of globalization (Fernando Vega-Redondo, European University Institute) 2011-06-17 13:30: Competitive Contagion in Networks (Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania) 2011-06-17 14:00: Control Challenges in Powertrain, Combustion and Drilling Control (Prof Keith Glover (University of Cambridge)) 2011-06-17 14:15: Network Formation in the Presence of Contagious Risk (David Easley, Cornell University) 2011-06-17 15:30: Network cognition and individual behaviour (Edoardo Gallo,Oxford University) 2011-06-17 16:15: Identifying Peer Effects through Randomized Trials in Networks (Sinan Aral, New York University) 2011-06-17 17:00: Co-opetition in network tasks (Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2011-06-20 16:00: Phylogenetic Inference of Multidomain Evolution (Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)) 2011-06-21 11:00: PEPSI: Privacy-Enhanced Participatory Sensing Infrastructure (Claudio Soriente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) 2011-06-21 11:30: Organization of neuronal population activity in auditory cortex. (Kenneth D Harris, Imperial College London) 2011-06-21 14:30: Bayesian regression and classification with multivariate sparsifying priors (Prof. Tom Heskes (Radboud University Nijmegen)) 2011-06-22 14:15: How Much Energy Is Required to Send One Bit Reliably over the Poisson Channel with Feedback? (Prof Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zurich) 2011-06-22 16:30: Stats clinic Easter IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-06-23 11:00: How to force unsupervised neural networks to discover the right representation of images (Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto) 2011-06-24 14:00: EADS Innovation Works, THE SPIRIT OF INNOVATION. Introduction to EADS Innovation Works UK (Tomas Sanchez Lopez, EADS Innovation Works UK) 2011-06-28 11:00: Transthyretin and Alzheimer's amyloid beta peptide - do two wrongs make a right? (Joel Buxbaum, MD PhD, Scripps Research Institute) 2011-06-28 11:00: How to write a great research paper (Simon Peyton-Jones, MSRC) 2011-06-28 14:00: How to give a great research talk (Simon Peyton-Jones, MSRC) 2011-06-29 09:30: Making the most of your PhD; now and in your career (Tennie Videler, Vitae) 2011-06-29 14:00: Computer science as applied philosophy (Tony Hoare, MSR Cambridge) 2011-06-29 14:15: Hard decisions do not cause a 2dB power loss (Dr Tobias Koch, CUED) 2011-06-29 15:00: Perturbation Biology of Cancer Cells (Chris Sander (MSKCC)) 2011-06-30 09:30: Blue skies to ground truth: Machine learning for Kinect human motion capture (Andrew Fitzgibbon, Microsoft) 2011-06-30 11:00: Gadgeteer (• Nicolas Villar, MSRC) 2011-06-30 14:00: Rough guide to being an entrepreneur (Jack Lang, University of Cambridge) 2011-07-01 11:00: How to present a poster at an international conference (Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training) 2011-07-04 10:00: Scaling transaction processing through data-oriented execution (Ippokratis Pandis, Carnegie Mellon University) 2011-07-04 11:00: Graphical Models for Bandit Problems (Kareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania)) 2011-07-05 11:00: A Drosophila Model for the role of ApoE in Alzheimer’s Disease (Paul Hopkins, King’s College London) 2011-07-05 14:15: Topics on joint source-channel coding and multiuser detection (Adria Tauste Campo, Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory, CUED) 2011-07-05 14:30: Search is not only about the Web - An Overview on Printed Document Search and Patent Search (Walid Magdy, Dublin City University) 2011-07-05 15:00: Incorporating heat transfers into models of building ventilation (Gregory Lane-Serff) 2011-07-06 14:00: Some recent developments in approximate inference: learning and control (David Barber, University College London) 2011-07-07 11:00: From Gene Networks to Tissue Engineering: Computational Models of Pattern Formation (Dagmar Iber, Computational Biology ETH Zurich) 2011-07-07 16:00: Electrolyte and water transport by the Drosophila midgut (Subrata Tripathi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) 2011-07-11 11:00: Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature (Khalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2011-07-12 14:00: Principles of Humanoid Locomotion Control (Aaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto) 2011-07-13 11:00: Some Practical Reflections on Graphical Models (Dr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh)) 2011-07-13 11:00: Distributed Intelligence in Manufacturing & Service Environments (Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Service and Support Engineering and head of DIAL, University of Cambridge) 2011-07-13 11:00: Plant Organs Regeneration: Measuring and Modelling Self‐Organization (Giovanni Sena Ph.D., New York University) 2011-07-15 11:00: Probing the basis of neuronal branching (Dr. Hermann Cuntz, Institute of Clinical Neuroanatomy, Goethe-University) 2011-07-15 16:00: Evaluation of Network Resilience and Survivability: Analysis, Simulation, Tools, and Experimentation (James P.G. Sterbenz (The University of Kansas)) 2011-07-18 12:00: A Weakly-supervised Approach to Argumentative Zoning of Scientific Documents (Yufan Guo, University of Cambridge) 2011-07-19 11:00: A Language for Type-Safe Web Programming (Cervesato Iliano, Carnegie Mellon University — Qatar Campus) 2011-07-20 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-07-21 14:30: Stochastic signal encoding strategies in cells (James Locke, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology) 2011-07-22 12:00: Graph-Based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration (Gerard de Melo, Max Planck Institute for Informatics) 2011-07-22 16:00: Insomnia in the Access or How to Curb Access Network Related Energy Consumption (Marco Canini (EPFL)) 2011-07-27 15:00: Perception by "Patterns" in the Brain (Mush Okun, Imperial College London) 2011-07-28 11:30: Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational Viewpoint (Prof. Matthias Seeger (EPFL)) 2011-07-28 14:00: Value of sensing (Ahmed Kadri, visiting student, DIAL, University of Cambridge) 2011-08-02 11:00: Tunable Static Inference for Generic Universe Types (Werner M Dietl, University of Washington) 2011-08-02 14:00: SocialFusion: Fusing Mobile, Sensor, and Social Computing in the Cloud To Enable Next-Generation Context-Aware Applications (Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder) 2011-08-09 10:00: "Egalitarian Gradient Descent": A General Preconditioning Scheme for Deformable Image Registration (Darko Zikic, TU Munich) 2011-08-11 10:00: Statistical learning for structural neuroimaging data (Remi Cuingnet, ICM Paris) 2011-08-11 11:30: Practical Boogie (on the example of VCC) (Michal Moskal, MSR Redmond) 2011-08-11 16:00: Efficient Photonic Coding: a Considered Revision (Yury Audzevich (University of Cambridge)) 2011-08-18 10:00: Energy Functionals: Choices and Consequences For Medical Image Segmentation (Chris McIntosh, SFU) 2011-08-24 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-08-26 14:00: Vector Commitments with Efficient Protocols for Privacy-preserving Smart Billing Applications (Alfredo Rial Duran, Microsoft Research) 2011-08-31 11:00: "Coupled dynamics of traits and populations in response to environmental change". (Arpat Ozgul, University of Cambridge) 2011-09-01 14:00: Mechanism Design without Money via Stable Matching (Ning Chen, Nanyang Technical University) 2011-09-05 11:00: SpecNet: Spectrum Sensing Sans Fronti`eres (Vishnu, MSR India Navda) 2011-09-05 14:00: L1 Adaptive Control and Its Transition to Practice (Prof Naira Hovakimyan (UIUC)) 2011-09-08 13:30: The IITM Model and its Application to the Analysis of Real-World Security Protocol (Ralf Küsters, University of Trier) 2011-09-08 16:00: SociableSense: Exploring the Trade-offs of Adaptive Sampling and Computation Offloading for Social Sensing (Kiran Rachuri (University of Cambridge)) 2011-09-09 11:00: Abstractions in Satisfiability Solvers (Vijay D'Silva, Oxford University) 2011-09-09 14:15: Applications of Image Registration (Prof Mark Pickering, Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of New South Wales, at the Australian Defence Force Academy) 2011-09-09 14:15: Applications of Image Registration (Prof Mark Pickering, Associate Professor in the School of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of New South Wales, at the Australian Defence Force Academy) 2011-09-12 14:00: Universal laws, architectures, and behaviors of robust, evolvable networks (John Doyle (Caltech)) 2011-09-13 14:00: Information-Greedy Global Optimisation (Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) 2011-09-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club ( Balázs Ujfalussy, CBL) 2011-09-16 11:00: Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applications (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2011-09-16 14:00: Robust stability analysis of linear time-varying feedback systems (Sei Zhen Khong (University of Melbourne)) 2011-09-16 16:00: A New Vision for Core Router Architectures (Robert M. Broberg (Cisco Systems)) 2011-09-19 13:30: Introduction to Physics of Living Matter Symposium 6 (Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2011-09-19 13:50: Embryonic patterning with an oscillating cell population (Dr Andrew Oates, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany) 2011-09-19 14:20: Fate restriction and multipotency in retinal stem cells (Dr Jochen Wittbrobt, Department of Molecular and Developmental Biology and Physiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany) 2011-09-19 14:50: 'Measuring the molecular dynamics of endocytosis using light microscopy (Dr Christien Merrifield, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK) 2011-09-19 15:00: Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems (Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany) 2011-09-19 15:50: Tracking stem cells at the single cell level: New tools for old questions (Dr Timm Schroeder, Institute of Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz, Munich, Germany) 2011-09-19 16:00: Adult stem cell fate: a laboratory for statistical physics (Ben Simons (University of Cambridge)) 2011-09-19 16:20: Systems Analysis in Single Cells (Professor Mike White, University of Manchester, UK) 2011-09-19 16:50: Controlling the Cell Cycle (Professor Sir Paul Nurse, The Royal Society, UK) 2011-09-20 09:30: Chemotaxis: linking cell shape, behaviour and strategy (Robert Endres, Imperial College, London, UK) 2011-09-20 10:00: Chromatin, nuclear mechanics and the cytoskeleton (Dr Megan King, Yale, USA) 2011-09-20 10:30: Patterns in active fluids (Dr Stephan Grill, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany) 2011-09-20 11:45: Transport in random fields and applications to Drosophila melanogaster (Dr Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK) 2011-09-20 12:15: Modeling cytoskeletal systems. (Dr Francois Nedelec, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany) 2011-09-20 12:45: Zooming into the molecular networks that regulate cellular morphogenesis (Dr Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK) 2011-09-20 14:30: Mechanical regulation of the cytoskeleton (Dan Fletcher, UC Berkeley, USA) 2011-09-20 15:00: Mechanisms of morphogenesis in early embryos (Dr Benedicte Sanson, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK) 2011-09-20 16:00: Collective migration of neural crest cells: a balance of repulsion and attraction (Professor Roberto Mayor, University College London, UK) 2011-09-20 16:30: Mechanical forces driving zebrafish epiboly (Dr Carl-Philipp Heisenberg, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria) 2011-09-20 17:00: Planar cell polarity: From cell biology to human disease (Professor John Wallingford, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA) 2011-09-20 17:30: Closing Remarks (Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge)) 2011-09-22 11:00: Energy-Efficiency in Cloud Computing Data Centers (Dzmitry Kliazovich (University of Luxembourg)) 2011-09-23 10:00: 47th UKELG One Day Discussion meeting on “Condensed and Gas Phase Detonation Phenomena” (Professor Martin Braithwaite, LSC academic visitor and Organiser of UKELG meeting) 2011-09-23 14:30: Mapping out the Toyota supply network: The emergence of resilience (Dr. Alexandra Brintrup Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks, Oxford University) 2011-09-26 16:00: Reconciling intuitive and Newtonian physics (Adam Sanborn (University of Warwick)) 2011-09-27 11:00: Factored Shapes and Appearances for Parts-based Object Understanding AND Transformation Equivariant Boltzmann Machines (Chris Williams, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) 2011-09-27 14:30: Statistical Software at the Centre for Multilevel Modelling (Professor William J. Browne, School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol) 2011-09-27 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (DJ Strouse (University of Cambridge)) 2011-09-28 15:00: Structured Prediction Models for High-level Computer Vision Tasks (Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research) 2011-09-28 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-09-29 09:30: CCBI Annual Symposium (Various speakers) 2011-09-29 16:00: Twitter bots (Miranda Mowbray (HP Labs Bristol)) 2011-09-30 11:00: ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Regulation and developmental role of the hypoxia response machinery in Drosophila (Pablo Wappner, Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, Argentina) 2011-10-03 16:00: Chromatin-mediated regulation of gene expression in mouse ES cells (Helle Jørgensen (University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-03 16:00: ECTOPIC SEMINAR: Projecto PalNiassa: New fossils from Mozambique (Rui Castanhinha, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Museu da Lourinhã, Portugal) 2011-10-06 12:00: Learning hard chart constraints for efficient context-free parsing (Brian Roark - Oregon Health and Science University) 2011-10-06 14:00: An internal model principle for consensus in heterogeneous multi-agent systems (Prof Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart)) 2011-10-06 14:30: Integration of RNA- and ChIP-sequencing reveals two major gene expression levels in metazoa (Daniel Hebenstreit - MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2011-10-06 16:00: Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Personality and Use of Language (Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-06 16:00: Luminal sensing and neuromodulation in the gut: different roles for PYY and NPY (Helen Cox, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College, London) 2011-10-07 11:00: Machine Learning Markets (Dr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh)) 2011-10-10 12:00: Better Together: Large Monolingual, Bilingual and Multimodal Corpora in NLP (Shane Bergsma - Johns Hopkins University) 2011-10-10 14:00: Research at the University of South Australia (Prof. Andy Koronios (Head of the School of Computer & Information Science, in the Division of Information Technology, Engineering & the Environment.)) 2011-10-10 17:30: The diversity of extrasolar planetary systems: Clues to planet formation and migration (LARMOR LECTURE - Professor John Papaloizou, DAMTP) 2011-10-10 17:30: The Larmor Lecture (Professor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge) 2011-10-11 11:30: Bayesian Nonparametrics: Latent Feature and Prediction Models, and Efficient Inference (Piyush Rai (University of Utah)) 2011-10-11 14:00: Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applications (Christian Steinruecken) 2011-10-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-11 19:30: 'NHS rationing, NICE or nasty’ The value of statistics (Dr Linda Sharples, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health) 2011-10-12 11:00: Not so naive Bayesian classification (Prof. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ)) 2011-10-12 14:15: Second- versus fourth-order dynamics in imaging (Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-12 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-10-12 18:00: Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: the role of genetics, ecology and behaviour (Professor Rosemary Grant FRS, Princeton University) 2011-10-13 11:00: Netmap: a novel framework for high speed packet I/O (Luigi Rizzo (Universita` di Pisa)) 2011-10-13 14:30: A genome-wide screen for developmental regulators of airway maturation regulators in Drosophila (Professor Christos Samakovlis - The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm) 2011-10-13 16:00: Genetic basis of group dynamics in Drosophila (Joel Levine, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada) 2011-10-13 16:00: Genetic Shaping of Cells and Tissues. (Prof. Enrico Coen, Dept. of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre) 2011-10-13 19:45: Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45) (Dr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge) 2011-10-14 12:00: Search-based Structured Prediction applied to Biomedical Event Extraction (Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-14 13:15: Taking shape: morphogenesis of Drosophila renal tubules (Helen Skaer, Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-14 14:00: Micromechanics models for soft solids composite materials (Dr Maria Charalambides, Imperial College London) 2011-10-14 16:00: Some considerations on radiometric effects: Rarefied gas flows induced by temperature fields (Kazuo Aoki (Kyoto University)) 2011-10-14 16:00: Dynamic aspects of the function and stoichiometry of ion channel complexes (Prof. Yoshihiro Kubo, National Institute for Physiological Science, Japan) 2011-10-15 19:00: Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover (Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics) 2011-10-17 19:30: Secret Science of WWII (Professor Brian J Ford, President of CSAR) 2011-10-18 12:00: Biomedical Natural Language Figure Processing (Hong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 2011-10-18 13:00: Natural Interactions & Computing for Global Development at MSR India (Ed Cutrell, MSRA) 2011-10-18 14:30: Modelling the transmission of Clostridium difficile in hospitals (Dr Madeleine Cule, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford) 2011-10-19 19:00: The Intrinsic Lability of DNA, and the continuous DNA repair triggered in this fashion (Professor Tom Lindahl, FRS) 2011-10-20 14:00: Hyper and structural Markov laws for graphical models (Simon Byrne (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)) 2011-10-20 14:15: First year reports (Marwa Mahmoud and Zhen Bai) 2011-10-20 14:30: Post-transcriptional regulation of human mitochondrial gene expression (Michal Minczuk - MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit) 2011-10-20 16:00: Why Johnny Can't Use the Cloud: And What We Can Do about It (Hitesh Ballani (MSR Cambridge)) 2011-10-20 16:00: Looking for novel regulators of cell morphogenesis using microscopy-based functional genomics approaches (Rafael Carazo Salas, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-20 16:00: Stemming Vision Loss using Stem Cells - Seeing is Believing (Prof. Peter Coffey, Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL) 2011-10-20 18:00: Talking to Terrorists (Jonathan Powell, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair) 2011-10-20 19:00: FILM NIGHT - Planet of the Apes (1968) (starring Charlton Heston) 2011-10-21 13:15: Understanding cell shape: reconstituting actin polymerisation at the membrane-cytosol interface (Jenny Gallop, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2011-10-21 14:00: Hydrodynamic interactions: from Brownian motion to swimming bacteria (Dr Roberto Dileonardo, University of Rome, Italy) 2011-10-21 14:30: Design for environment and risk (Prof David Cebon, CUED) 2011-10-21 14:30: Design for environment and risk (Professor David Cebon, CUED) 2011-10-21 15:00: Software Bloat: A systems' perspective (K. Gopinath (Indian Institute of Science)) 2011-10-21 16:00: Fluid-structure interactions of compliant wings (Justin Jaworski (Damtp)) 2011-10-24 16:30: Optogenetics and Other Neural Circuit Analysis Tools (Ed Boyden MIT, Cambridge, USA) 2011-10-24 17:30: Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute) 2011-10-25 11:00: Poirot — a concurrency sleuth (Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research Redmond) 2011-10-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2011-10-26 11:00: Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate Models (Dr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox)) 2011-10-26 14:00: From batch effects and randomness to personalised stratified medicine (John Todd (CIMR)) 2011-10-26 14:15: Local Sequential Monte Carlo Methods (Dr Adam Johansen, Statistics Department, University of Warwick) 2011-10-26 16:00: Inferring mechanisms of gene regulation from patterns of evolutionary divergence (Itay Tirosh (Weizmann Institute)) 2011-10-26 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-10-27 00:00: NO TEA TALK (Peter Lawrence Symposium) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-10-27 14:00: A process for total information risk management (Alexander Borek, DIAL, IfM) 2011-10-27 14:00: Proper local scoring rules (Prof. Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory)) 2011-10-27 14:15: First year reports (Andra Adams and Ntombikayise Banda) 2011-10-27 14:30: The shape of things to come: from small G-proteins to cell polarity, cell-shape dynamics and cell-cell signalling (Veronica Grieneisen (The John Innes Centre, Norwich)) 2011-10-27 16:00: Towards a Highly Available Internet (Thomas Anderson (University of Washington)) 2011-10-27 16:00: The egress mechanism of malaria parasites: surprising active participation of the host red cell membrane (Dr Virgilio Lew, PDN) 2011-10-27 18:30: PhD Event (PhD students and others) 2011-10-27 19:00: The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall? (Prof Brian J Ford (President of CSAR)) 2011-10-27 19:30: Rain Water Harvesting with Graham Cross (Graham Cross) 2011-10-28 12:00: Unsupervised Word Alignment and Part of Speech Induction with Undirected Models (Chris Dyer, Carnegie Mellon University) 2011-10-28 13:15: A fly's-eye view of epithelial polarity (Franck Pichaud, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London) 2011-10-28 14:00: Probing liquid crystal elastomers with light (Professor Martin Copic, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2011-10-28 14:00: Mechanical behaviour of the lower limb under high strain rates (Dr Spiros Masouros, Imperial College London) 2011-10-28 16:00: Turbulence, mixing, and blooms at ocean fronts (John Taylor (Damtp)) 2011-10-31 09:00: Analysing biological information processing with mechanistic modular models (Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research Ltd.) 2011-10-31 10:30: Large-scale Retrieval with Ivory and MapReduce (Tamer Elsayed, Cairo Microsoft Innovation Centre (CMIC)) 2011-10-31 19:30: Science and the Media (Vivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster) 2011-11-01 10:00: Information Retrieval based Program Synthesis (T-yiwei Yi (Jason) Wei, ETH Zurich) 2011-11-01 14:00: Probabilistic programs and the computability and complexity of Bayesian reasoning (Daniel Roy, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-01 15:00: The Marriage of Bisimulations and Kripke Logical Relations (Derek Dreyer, MPI-SWS) 2011-11-02 14:00: tba (Richard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)) 2011-11-02 16:30: INFORMAL SEMINAR: Development and maturation of the respiratory system in Drosophila (Maura Strigini, Heraklion, Crete) 2011-11-02 19:00: Branching out! (Professor Ottoline Leyser, FRS) 2011-11-03 14:00: Interaction with the Virtual World (Jim (Chee Siang) Ang and Farzin Deravi, University of Kent) 2011-11-03 14:15: How do brains encode facial expression movements? (Nick Furl) 2011-11-03 14:30: Changes in cell and tissue architecture in early stages of colorectal cancer (Professor Inke Näthke - Dundee Cancer Centre, University of Dundee) 2011-11-03 16:00: Physiomimetics: generating functional membranes for buildings (lessons from the ventilation systems of African fungus-growing termites) (Rupert Soar, Wolfson School of Engineering at Loughborough University) 2011-11-03 16:00: The importance of nature (as opposed to nurture) in the development of cortical interneurons (Dr Simon Butt, Dept. of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetic, University of Oxford) 2011-11-03 16:00: Reflections on the Long-term Use of an Experimental Digital Signage System (Christos Efstratiou (University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-04 10:00: PARIS: Probabilistic Alignment of Relations, Instances, and Schema (Fabian Suchanek, INRIA) 2011-11-04 13:15: Regulation of neuronal growth in a developing motor system – a Drosophila dendrite perspective (Matthias Landgraf, Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-04 14:00: Combining Optical and Electrochemical Devices to Investigate Activities of Biological Nano-Structures (Dr Stephane Arbault, University of Bordeaux, France) 2011-11-04 14:00: Quantifying the value of information for TrackSafe (Pankaj Sood, PhD. student, DIAL, IfM) 2011-11-04 16:00: Particle size segregation and spontaneous levee formation in geophysical mass flows (Nico Gray (Manchester)) 2011-11-07 17:30: Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in Prehistory (Professor Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology) 2011-11-08 14:30: Assessment of Trend in Recurrent Event Processes (Professor Jerry Lawless, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada) 2011-11-09 14:00: CMA-ES – a Stochastic Second-Order Method for Function-Value FreeNumerical Optimization (Nikolaus Hansen, INRIA) 2011-11-09 14:00: Approximate Bayesian Computation for evolution in a test tube (Professor Simon Tavare ( CCBI, CRI-CRUK, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-09 14:15: Data sketching for cardinality and entropy estimation (Dr Ioana Cosma, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-09 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-11-09 19:00: Cells move! But how do they do it? (Dr Rob Kay, FRS) 2011-11-10 14:00: Approximate Inference in Gaussian Process Models (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-11-10 14:15: ICMI talk rehearsal (Ntombi Banda) 2011-11-10 14:45: First year report (Leszek Świrski) 2011-11-10 15:30: Developmental function and possible role in morphological evolution of the vertebrate Cdx genes (Stephen Gaunt, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2011-11-10 16:00: Linked Data infrastructures for HE (Thanassis Tiropanis (University of Southampton)) 2011-11-11 13:15: What does smooth muscle development tell us about vascular disease susceptibility? (Christine Cheung, Anne McLaren Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-11 14:00: Using bespoke fluorescence microscopy to study the soft matter of living cells at the single molecule level (Dr Mark Leake, University of Oxford, UK) 2011-11-11 14:00: Dislocation motion and instability (Professor Jon Chapman, University of Oxford) 2011-11-11 16:00: Inkjet printing of complex fluids (Oliver Harlen (Leeds)) 2011-11-11 17:30: The Challenges of Cyber Warfare (Prof Sir Mark Welland, FRS, Prof Paul Cornish, and David Smart) 2011-11-14 19:30: How Thorium Could Save the Planet (Professor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield) 2011-11-15 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-16 11:00: Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with data (Emily Lines, PhD Student, Forest Ecology and Conservation Group, Plant Sciences, Cambridge) 2011-11-16 13:00: Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila (Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK) 2011-11-16 15:00: A Maximum Entropy Perspective on Spectral Dimensionality Reduction (Prof Neil Lawrence (Sheffield)) 2011-11-16 19:00: Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to avoid. (Professor Steve Jones, FRS) 2011-11-17 14:15: Neurocognitive techniques for the measurement of personal agency (Dr David Coyle (Computer Laboratory)) 2011-11-17 16:00: Quantifying Location Privacy (George Theodorakopoulos (EPFL, University of Derby)) 2011-11-17 16:00: Nano-scale pathfinders: how kinesins move along the microtubule (Zeynep Oekten, Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany) 2011-11-17 19:00: Internship Event (Sally Todd and previous interns) 2011-11-18 11:00: Real versus Realistically Rendered Ground Truth: Can we use Computer Graphics for Performance Evaluation? (Daniel Kondermann, Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI)) 2011-11-18 12:00: Stream-based Statistical Machine Translation (Abby Levenberg, University of Oxford) 2011-11-18 13:15: Anterior-posterior axis specification in the mammalian embryo (Tristan Rodriguez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London) 2011-11-18 14:00: Crystallization and Structure Formation in Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers for Applications in Organic Photovoltaics (Professor Thomas Thurn-Albrecht, Martin Luther Unversity, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) 2011-11-18 14:00: Hankel structured low rank matrix completion (Dr Ivan Markovsky (University of Southampton)) 2011-11-18 14:00: Beyond the Piece of Cardboard: Learning to Adjust Photographs (Sylvain Paris, Research Scientist at Adobe) 2011-11-18 14:30: Mechanical study of the C. elegans worm locomotion. From soft matter to biomimetics. (Prof Jean-Marc di Meglio, University of Paris Diderot) 2011-11-18 14:30: Mechanical study of the C. elegans worm locomotion. From soft matter to biomimetics (Professor Jean-Marc di Meglio, Université Paris Diderot) 2011-11-21 11:00: Bayesian Computation Without Tears: Probabilistic Programming and Universal Stochastic Inference (Vikash Mansinghka, MIT) 2011-11-21 13:00: Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker (Tim Boon (Science Museum)) 2011-11-21 15:00: Real-Time and Real Trustworthiness: Timing Analysis of a Protected OS Kernel (Bernard Blackham (NICTA)) 2011-11-21 16:00: RNAi-based molecular computing for cancer cell detection (Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson (ETH Zurich BSSE)) 2011-11-21 16:30: Oscillations and Neural Syntax (Gyorgy Buzsaki, Rutgers, Newark, USA) 2011-11-21 17:30: Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses (Professor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy) 2011-11-22 10:00: Complementing User-Level Coarse-Grain Parallelism with Implicit Speculative Parallelism (Nikolas Ioannou - University of Edinburgh) 2011-11-22 14:15: Monocular 3D Pose Estimation (Srimal Jayawardena, PhD Candidate, Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU)) 2011-11-22 19:30: A window on the biology of behaviour: insights from syndromes of genetic origin (Professor Tony Holland, Section of Developmental Psychiatry) 2011-11-23 11:00: Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State Systems (Vinayak Rao (UCL)) 2011-11-23 13:00: Axial homologies re-examined: a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa (Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany) 2011-11-23 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Michael Hausser, Univeristy College London, UK) 2011-11-23 14:15: Recursive parameter estimation procedures (Dr Teo Sharia, Lecturer in Statistics, Royal Holloway , University of London) 2011-11-23 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2011-11-23 19:30: Rosemary Randall on ‘Behaviour change: solution or diversion?’ 23 November (Rosemary Randall) 2011-11-24 14:00: Concurrency Assertions – Providing the Right Semantics to ASSERT Statements (Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research) 2011-11-24 14:15: Light transport for photo-realistic depiction: analysis, abstraction and simulation (Kartic Subr, UCL) 2011-11-24 14:30: Mechanisms and regulation of DNA recombination during meiosis (Matthew Neale - MRC Genome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex) 2011-11-24 16:00: Experiments with dynamic networks of virtual routers (Richard G. Clegg (UCL)) 2011-11-24 16:00: Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution (Aurora Ruiz Herrera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) 2011-11-24 16:00: Modeling a non-linear EPSPs integration site in dendrites and its impact on computational capacities (Romain Cazé, Group for Neural Theory, Ecole Normal Superieure, Paris) 2011-11-24 18:00: The Meaning of Liberal Learning (Right Honourable Michael Gove, MP and Secretary of State for Education) 2011-11-25 12:00: What is meaning? - Formalising the Distributional Hypothesis (Daoud Clarke, University of Hertfordshire) 2011-11-25 13:15: Heart development and ageing (Thomas Brand, Heart Science Centre, Imperial College London) 2011-11-25 14:30: Microextrusion - process innovation to product application (Dr Bart Hallmark, Department of Chemical Engineering) 2011-11-25 16:00: The dynamics of marine ice sheets (Grae Worster (Damtp)) 2011-11-28 11:00: Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and Optimisation (Michael Osborne ( Oxford University)) 2011-11-28 19:30: RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology (Professor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2011-11-29 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (DJ Strouse (University of Cambridge)) 2011-11-30 14:00: Multi-scale studies on Drosophila transcription factors (Boris Adryan (CCBI,Genetics)) 2011-11-30 14:15: The SUDOKU Coding Project (Dr Jossy Sayir, Signal Processing and Communications Group, CUED) 2011-12-01 14:00: Bound Analysis of Imperative Programs with the Size-change Abstraction (Florian Zuleger, TU Wien) 2011-12-01 15:00: Closing the gap between weakly and fully supervised methods (Vittorio Ferrari, ETH Zurich) 2011-12-01 16:00: The molecular and neuronal control of nutrient decisions in Drosophila (Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal) 2011-12-01 16:00: IPv6 Transition and IPv4 address sharing mechanisms (Iain Phillips (University of Loughborough)) 2011-12-01 19:00: Is water H2O? (Prof Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) 2011-12-02 12:00: Probabilistic models of similarity and plausibility in context (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge) 2011-12-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Clive Roberts, University of Nottingham, UK) 2011-12-02 14:00: Design and flight testing of nonlinear flight control laws (Dr Thomas Lombaerts (German Aerospace Centre DLR)) 2011-12-02 14:00: Biomimetics of Fibrillar Adhesive Systems/Using principles of intrinsic motivation in inclusive design of ICT for the ageing population (Lizbeth Prieto-Lopez - Tanya Goldhaber, CUED) 2011-12-02 16:00: Hollow vortices (Stefan Llewellyn Smith (UCSD)) 2011-12-02 17:30: The Future of Energy: Views and Approaches by Government and Industry (Prof David MacKay, FRS and Christof Rühl) 2011-12-05 16:00: RNAi libraries for high throughput phenotyping and drug resistance screening in the African trypanosome (David Horn (LSHTM)) 2011-12-06 14:30: Design and Analysis of Multi-Arm, Multi-Stage Clinical Studies (Dr. Thomas Jaki, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University) 2011-12-07 11:00: Scaling Machine Learning for the Internet (Prof. Alexander Smola (Yahoo!)) 2011-12-09 14:30: Unique Identification of Products: A Technology Survey (Romain Gaillard, student visitor from IFMA, DIAL) 2011-12-09 17:30: Revolutions (and Elephants) in the Library: the Third Arcadia Lecture (Professor Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan) 2011-12-12 14:15: Compressible distributions and Compressed Sensing (Prof Mike Davies, School of Engineering and Electronics, University of Edinburgh) 2011-12-13 11:00: On User Availability Prediction And Network Applications (Matteo Dell'Amico (Eurecom)) 2011-12-14 14:00: Rao-Blackwellized Particle Smoothing for Conditionally Linear Gaussian Models (NOTICE CHANGED TIME!) (Dr Simo Sarkka, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science Dept, Aalto University, Finland) 2011-12-14 14:00: The Value of Monitoring Information in Decentralized Power System Maintenance (Toshihiro Mukai, visiting student, DIAL) 2011-12-14 14:00: Naiad: Iterative and Incremental Data-Parallelism using Differential Dataflow (Derek Murray, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley) 2012-01-05 10:00: High-throughput, Multiscale modelling approaches for understanding bacterial signalling (Benjamin Hall, UCL) 2012-01-10 10:00: Homomorphic Encryption from Ring Learning with Errors (Michael Naehrig, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) 2012-01-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Emil Hewage) 2012-01-10 19:30: Brain control of appetite and body weight (Dr Lora Heisler, Department of Pharmacology) 2012-01-12 10:00: Practical Abstractions for Dynamic and Parallel Software (Umut Acar, Max Planck Institute) 2012-01-13 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science (Professor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS) 2012-01-13 16:00: Increased methylation variation across cancer types (Kasper Daniel Hansen (Johns Hopkins)) 2012-01-16 15:00: 3D from 2D: HMAS Sydney II in 3D (Andrew Woods, Research Engineer, Curtin University, Perth, Australia) 2012-01-16 16:00: The Search for Organizing Principles in Cancer Systems Biology (Olaf Wolkenhauer (University of Rostock, www.sbi.uni-rostock.de)) 2012-01-17 14:30: Which survival model? Model selection and model averaging issues for analysis of survival and event history data (Prof. Nils Hjort, Department of Mathmatics, University of Oslo, Norway) 2012-01-18 12:30: A new finite element shallow water model on the sphere: Model setup, grid refinement, and boundary separation (Peter Dueben (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany)) 2012-01-19 14:00: Deconstructing Nuclear Pore Complex Function by Bio-Synthetic Reconstruction (Professor Roderick Lim, University of Basel, Switzerland) 2012-01-19 14:00: Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning (Dr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge)) 2012-01-19 14:30: Exploring epistasis maps of cellular processes (Professor Michael Boutros, DKFZ Heidelberg) 2012-01-19 16:00: Local coordination of cell polarity through cell-cell interactions (Professor David Strutt - MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield) 2012-01-19 19:00: Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine (Dr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden) 2012-01-20 14:00: Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear (Prof Steve Elliott, University of Southampton) 2012-01-20 14:00: Feedback control of vibration in aircraft and in the ear (Professor Steve Elliott, University of Southampton) 2012-01-20 16:00: Vortex-wave interactions/self-sustained processes in shear flows (Phil Hall (Imperial)) 2012-01-20 17:30: From Genomes to the Diversity of Life (Professor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge) 2012-01-23 16:30: Oscillatory dynamics in the hippocampus: a model system to study information routing in the brain (Dimitri Kullman, Queen Square, London) 2012-01-23 19:30: Science and Non-science in Drug Policy (Professor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine) 2012-01-24 14:00: The Undiscovered Continents of Human Potential (Jaron Lanier, Microsoft) 2012-01-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2012-01-25 14:15: Optimal proposal densities for particle filters (Peter Jan van Leeuwen, Prof in Data Assimilation, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading) 2012-01-25 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-01-25 19:00: The Early Days of Single Ion Channel Recording: Proof of Concept and Surprises (Nobel Laureate Erwin Neher, Germany) 2012-01-26 15:00: Information bottleneck (Dr. Richard Turner, DJ Strouse) 2012-01-26 16:00: Analysis of the call group structure in the BT call records dataset (David Hunter (University of Essex)) 2012-01-26 16:00: From fly embryos to single molecule studies: elucidating molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic mRNA transport (Dr Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2012-01-27 12:00: Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models (Yee Whye Teh, University College London) 2012-01-27 13:15: Embryonic enigmas: geminin regulation and function in stem cells (Ron Laskey, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge) 2012-01-27 14:00: Impact of information availability on maintenance decisions (Raj Srinivasan, DIAL) 2012-01-27 14:00: Mesoscopic Systems: Synthesis, Interactions and Analysis (Professor Dr Helmut Cölfen, University Konstanz, Germany) 2012-01-27 14:00: The textured response of nematic elastomers and other strange solids (Professor Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory) 2012-01-27 14:30: Statistical physics and hydrodynamics of microbial fluids (Jörn Dunkel (DAMTP)) 2012-01-27 16:00: Physical principles in sensing and signalling (Robert Endres (Imperial)) 2012-01-27 17:30: Life in Ruins (Dr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge) 2012-01-30 15:00: Security in untrusted storage (Christian Cachin, IBM Research - Zurich) 2012-01-30 16:30: Physicians as Scientists: Abnormal eye movement seen in the clinic can teach us how the brain works (David Zee, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA & John Leigh, Case Western Reserve University, CLeveland, Ohio, USA) 2012-01-30 17:30: Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications (Professor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering) 2012-01-30 19:30: Some Good News About Climate Change (Danny Chivers) 2012-01-31 17:30: Maths in the City (Rachel Thomas, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-01 14:00: Genome-Based Drug Discovery and Re-Purposing: a new golden age for DNA microarrays? (Dr. Francesco Iorio, EMBL-EBI) 2012-02-01 17:30: War and Peace: The Reality. How and Why Russia Defeated Napoleon (Professor Dominic Lieven FBA) 2012-02-01 18:00: Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open (Dr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department)) 2012-02-01 19:00: The Evolution of Animal Societies (Tim Clutton-Brock) 2012-02-02 14:00: How the application of information quality management can be a powerful enabler of positive business change in asset-intensive businesses (Karl Venter and Prof. Matthew West, Information Junction) 2012-02-02 14:30: The family of mitochondrial transport proteins ( Edmund R.S. Kunji - The Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit) 2012-02-02 16:00: The role of mitochondrial DNA in neuronal development and neurodegeneration (Dr Joseph Bateman, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London) 2012-02-02 16:00: So you want to do a PhD (you think)... (Jon Crowcroft (University of Cambridge)) 2012-02-02 19:00: Quantifying Cancer Heterogeneity (Florian Markowetz) 2012-02-03 10:00: Covering problems arising in Gamma Knife radiosurgery (Leo Liberti, CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique) 2012-02-03 11:00: A conservative level-set based method for multi-components problems on fixed grids (Ben Obadia (Cranfield University)) 2012-02-03 13:15: SHiPSCs, Naïve Human Pluripotent Stem Cells? (Pentao Liu, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge) 2012-02-03 14:00: Functionalised nanoparticles and SERS for bioanalysis (Professor Duncan Graham, University of Strathclyde, UK) 2012-02-03 14:00: Calculation of adhesion between elastic spheres from molecular forces (Dr Jim Greenwood, CUED) 2012-02-03 16:00: Mathematical and computational modelling of tumour growth and spread (Philip Maini (Oxford)) 2012-02-03 17:30: The Spark of Life (Professor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford) 2012-02-06 14:00: Monte Carlo Inference for Alpha-Stable Processes (Tatjana Lemke, Fraunhofer Institute and Signal Processing and COmmunications Laboratory, CUED) 2012-02-06 16:00: Model Based Target Identification from Expression Data (Neil Lawrence (University of Sheffield)) 2012-02-06 16:30: Wiring the brain: RNA-based mechanisms in guiding axon growth (Christine Holt, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-06 19:30: Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics (Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, Unive)) 2012-02-08 14:00: Open Afternoon for the MPhil in Computational Biology (Various Speakers) 2012-02-08 14:15: Combinatorial Channel Signature Modulation for Wireless ad-hoc Networks (Dino Sejdinovic , Postdoctoral Fellow, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London) 2012-02-08 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-02-08 18:00: The power of markets to protect nature (Ian Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group)) 2012-02-08 19:00: Research Involving Animals Containing Human Material (Martin Bobrow, NHS) 2012-02-09 14:30: Exploring the origin of leaves (Dr Jill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-09 16:00: A sixth sense: the development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Dr Clare Baker, Dept. of PDN) 2012-02-09 16:00: Regulating the actin cytoskeleton during Drosophila oogenesis (Dr Margot Quinlan, UCLA) 2012-02-09 19:00: Molecular Model Solutions (Dr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-10 13:15: Nanoscale Tools for the Silencing of Genes in the Brain (Kostas Kostarelos, The School of Pharmacy, University of London) 2012-02-10 14:00: Multi-scale computational-experimental analysis of the mechanics of interfaces (Prof Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven) 2012-02-10 14:00: Shaping the Future of Manipulation (Professor Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, UK) 2012-02-10 14:00: Multi-scale computational-experimental analysis of the mechanics of interfaces (Professor Marc Geers, TU Eindhoven) 2012-02-10 16:00: Marvels of bacterial flagella (Howard Berg (Harvard)) 2012-02-10 17:30: Life in the Ancient World (Dr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-13 15:30: Brain maps for space (Edvard Moser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway) 2012-02-13 17:30: Gilding the lily: understanding angiosperm diversity through petal evolution and development (Dr Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences) 2012-02-14 14:00: Exploiting Variable Impedance for Robotics: Mimic or Optimize? (Sethu Vijayakumar, Department of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) 2012-02-14 14:30: Latent Mixture Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data (Dr. Bo Fu, School of Community-Based Medicine, University of Manchester) 2012-02-15 18:00: Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change (Dr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee )) 2012-02-15 19:00: Rho GTPase signalling in tumour invasion (Chris Marshall, ICR) 2012-02-16 14:30: Molecular regulation of Wallerian axonal degeneration (Dr Michael Coleman, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2012-02-16 16:00: Decision-making in animal collectives (Dr Gonzalo de Polavieja, Cajal Institute, Spain) 2012-02-16 16:00: Control and Understanding: Owning Your Home Network (Haris Rotsos (University of Cambridge)) 2012-02-16 16:00: Organogenesis during planarian regeneration (Dr Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics) 2012-02-16 19:00: Giving proteins addresses (Kathryn Lilley, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre) 2012-02-17 11:00: Evaluating User-Adaptive Systems: Lessons from Experiences with a Personalized Meeting Scheduling Assistant (Neil Yorke-Smith, American University of Beirut and SRI International) 2012-02-17 13:15: A histone marks embryonic differentiation and acts as an epigenetic barrier to reprogramming (Vincent Pasque (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-17 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Reinhard Miller, Max-Planck Institute for Colloids & Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany) 2012-02-17 16:00: Dynamic bifurcations and pattern formation in melting-boundary convection (Michael Proctor (DAMTP)) 2012-02-17 17:30: Life in Conflict (Dr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-17 17:30: IBM Watson from Jeopardy! to Healthcare: could a quiz-show winning computer advise your doctor? ( Dr. David Gondek, IBM Watson Research Center) 2012-02-17 17:30: The Challenges of Regulating the Internet (Mr Simon Hampton, Director of European Public Policy at Google and Prof Derek McAuley, Professor of Digital Economy and Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham (as a discussant)) 2012-02-19 02:30: The Economics of Happiness (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-02-20 16:00: Introduction to information theory (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-02-20 16:30: Biological precursors of the number sense (Andreas Nieder, University of Tubingen, Germany) 2012-02-20 19:30: The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy (Professor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge) 2012-02-21 12:30: Slug initiation modelling and two-phase flow prediction (Dr Stamatis Kalogerakos (Cranfield University)) 2012-02-21 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2012-02-21 19:30: Open your Mind (Dr Hannah Critchlow, The Naked Scientists, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-22 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-02-22 19:00: New Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Neurodegenerative Diseases (Chris Dobson) 2012-02-23 10:00: On the Equivalence of TCM Encoders (Frederik Brannstrom, Assistant Professor at the Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden) 2012-02-23 12:30: Probabilistic computing: computation as universal stochastic inference, not deterministic calculation (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT)) 2012-02-23 14:30: The sperms’ hidden cargo; a distinctive epigenetic signature for the egg? (Dr David Miller, University of Leeds) 2012-02-23 16:00: Polycomb complexes co-associate with a specific RNA polymerase II variant in ES cells (Prof. Ana Pombo, Imperial College London) 2012-02-23 16:00: Rethinking file systems (Eno Thereska and Richard Banks (MSR Cambridge)) 2012-02-23 16:00: Statistical inference in the fossil record: estimating the divergence time of primates (Professor Simon Tavaré, Department of Oncology University of Cambridge) 2012-02-24 12:00: Automatically Creating Reading Lists with Topical PageRank (James Jardine, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-24 13:15: Mapping Morphogenesis (Richard Adams, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-24 14:00: Photons, dust, and honeybees (Diederik Wiersma, European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Florence, Italy) 2012-02-24 14:00: Method of reduction of dimensionality in contact mechanics (Professor Valentin Popov, TU Berlin) 2012-02-24 14:00: Don't kill my ads! Balancing Privacy in an Ad-Supported Mobile Application Market (Ilias Leontiadis (University of Cambridge)) 2012-02-24 16:00: Thermal convection in variable viscosity fluids: from laboratory experiments to planetary dynamics (Anne Davaille (Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay)) 2012-02-24 17:30: Life and Death of a Cell (Professor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge) 2012-02-27 14:30: Entropy and data compression (I) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-02-27 15:00: Exploring Compression and the Aesthetics of Creativity (Mark Bedworth) 2012-02-27 17:30: Quantum chemical games of life (Professor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry) 2012-02-28 12:30: A high order cell centred Lagrangian Godunov scheme for cylindrical geometry (Dr Andy Barlow (AWE)) 2012-02-28 14:30: Some thoughts on multi-parameter evidence synthesis (Mr. Guobing Lu, University of Bristol) 2012-02-29 12:00: Beyond MaltParser -- Recent Advances in Transition-Based Dependency Parsing (Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University) 2012-02-29 14:00: Sequential Decision Making in Experimental Design and Sustainability via Adaptive Submodularity (Andreas Krause, ETH Zurich) 2012-02-29 14:00: Modelling Network Data (Patrick J Wolfe, Professor of Statistics at University College London) 2012-02-29 18:00: Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when? (Jonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future)) 2012-02-29 19:00: Abandoning a medical career for sex, conflict, and violence (Geoff Parker, Liverpool) 2012-03-01 10:30: A Population Approach to System Design (Matthew Chalmers, Glasgow University) 2012-03-01 10:30: A Population Approach to System Design (Matthew Chalmers, Glasgow University) 2012-03-01 14:30: The development and structure of the insect cuticle (Bernard Moussian, University of Tubingen) 2012-03-01 16:00: Bridging the Tenant-Provider Gap in Cloud Services (Hitesh Ballani (MSR Cambridge)) 2012-03-01 16:00: Symphony of a thousand hair cells: orchestrating auditory development (Prof. Corne Kros, Dept. of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex) 2012-03-01 16:00: Strategies to ensure robustness in genome replication (Prof. Julian Blow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee) 2012-03-01 19:00: From Coding the Genome to Algorithms Decoding Life (Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-03-01 19:30: Advanced Recycling (Mark Buckton, Cambridge City Council) 2012-03-02 13:15: The roles of the interaction between the APC/C and the centrosome in the cell cycle and development in Drosophila (Yuu Kimata, Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2012-03-02 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Peter Smith, Institute of Life Sciences, University of Southampton, UK) 2012-03-02 14:00: The structural mechanics of crystals (Dr Simon Guest, CUED) 2012-03-02 14:00: Decentralized Optimal Control and Connections to the Human Motor System (Dr Andrew Lamperski, California Institute of Technology) 2012-03-02 16:00: Studying transitional flow over aerofoils and the associated noise generation using direct numerical simulations (Richard Sandberg (Southampton)) 2012-03-02 17:30: Artificial Life (Professor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge) 2012-03-05 14:30: Entropy and data compression (II) (David MacKay (Cavendish Laboratory)) 2012-03-05 16:00: Modelling in systems genetics: computational approaches for discovering disease networks (Tom Michoel (FRIAS Freiburg)) 2012-03-05 16:00: Colouring the Noise (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich) 2012-03-05 16:30: Dynamic regulation of dopamine transmission in the striatum (Stephanie Cragg, University of Oxford) 2012-03-05 19:30: Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells (Professor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge) 2012-03-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Diana Burk) 2012-03-07 16:00: Ab-initio simulation of water and its ions (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich) 2012-03-07 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-03-07 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Youthful Spirit of Mathematics (Professor Michael Atiyah FRS) 2012-03-07 18:00: Making peace with the Earth (Dr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation)) 2012-03-07 19:00: The earliest tetrapods: What were they, and what are they? (Jenny Clack) 2012-03-08 14:00: "Symmetry and sufficiency" (Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-08 14:30: “The mosquito immune response against malaria parasites” (Dr George K Christophides, Imperial College, London) 2012-03-08 16:00: Micro-RNAs, oscillations and neural progenitor maintenance (Prof. Nancy Papalopulu, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universtity of Manchester) 2012-03-08 16:00: Potentials and Challenges of Developing Ecosystem-Based Co-management: A Case Study From the Swedish West Coast (Dr Andrea Morf, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment) 2012-03-08 16:00: OFLOPS: An Open Framework for OpenFlow Switch Evaluation (Haris Rotsos (University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-08 19:00: Reprogramming the Genetic Code (Jason Chin) 2012-03-09 11:00: A Scalable Approach for Managing Unstructured Information (Kim Keeton (HP Palo Alto)) 2012-03-09 14:00: Modeling of cemented granular aggregates - Application to the hardness of wheat endosperm (Professor Jean-Yves Delenne) 2012-03-09 16:00: A framework for parameterizing eddy potential vorticity fluxes (David Marshall (Oxford)) 2012-03-09 16:00: Metadynamics (Prof Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich) 2012-03-09 17:30: The After Life (Professor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton) 2012-03-12 10:00: Short and long-term effects of climate, disturbance, and forest management on regional carbon storage and emissions under current and proposed policy plans (Tara W. Hudiburg, Oregon State University) 2012-03-12 16:30: Nonlinear dendritic processing in-vitro and in-vivo (Jackie Schiller, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Tecnion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel) 2012-03-12 17:30: Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind? (Professor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences) 2012-03-12 18:00: A Mathematical Look at the Olympics (Professor John D Barrow (University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-13 10:00: Decision Theory in Conservation Biology, from Systematic Conservation Planning to Scenario-Based policy assessments (Piero Visconti, Global Mammal Assessment Program in Rome) 2012-03-13 19:00: Breaking Habits & Going For Green: a Carbon Conversations Taster Session (Bev Sedley, Trustee CCF & Beejal Parekh, Volunteer CCF) 2012-03-14 10:00: Malleability in Modern Cryptography (Markulf Kohlweiss, MSRC) 2012-03-14 12:30: The Flux Reconstruction Approach to High-Order Methods (Dr Peter E Vincent (Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College)) 2012-03-14 18:00: The next 40 years (Professor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth)) 2012-03-14 19:00: The Roles of Immunity in Influenza Virus Evolution. (John Skehel, NIMR) 2012-03-14 19:30: Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter (Bev Sedley, Trustee CCF) 2012-03-15 09:00: Towards Practical Randomization in Concurrent Data Structures (Dan Alistarh, EPFL) 2012-03-15 11:00: Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov Models (Jonathan Huggins (Columbia University)) 2012-03-15 14:00: Extended ensemble Monte Carlo (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2012-03-15 14:30: Genome-wide RNAi and HCS Microscopy approaches to dissect membrane traffic pathways (Professor Jez Simpson, University College Dublin) 2012-03-15 16:00: Real-time verification with bigraphs with sharing (Michele Sevegnani (University of Glasgow)) 2012-03-15 16:00: All things bright and beautiful; structural colour in biological systems (Dr Pete Vukusic, Department of Physics, University of Exeter) 2012-03-15 19:00: A 2020 vision of Biology: the present and future of microscopy-based functional genomics (Rafael Carazo-Salas) 2012-03-16 14:00: Non stick surfaces and self motile particles: some old and new problems in colloid physics (Professor Richard Jones, University of Sheffield, UK) 2012-03-16 14:00: CUED graduate seminar - Biomimetic materials for nucleus pulposus tissue engineering/Solid bonding of aluminium scrap (Daniel Strange, CUED and Daniel Cooper) 2012-03-16 14:00: Entity-based Models for Discourse Structure (Micha Elsner, University of Edinburgh) 2012-03-16 14:00: ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smart grid (Alex Rogers, University of Southampton) 2012-03-16 14:00: ORCHID: Human-agent collectives for disaster response and the smart grid (Alex Rogers, University of Southampton) 2012-03-16 16:00: Complex dynamics of solitary water waves in three dimensions (Paul Milewski (Bath)) 2012-03-19 10:00: Understanding variability and temporal trends in biosphere-atmosphere CO2 exchange through integrating models with data (Dr. Trevor Keenan, Harvard University) 2012-03-19 11:00: Efficient Range Querying in Distributed Games (Sergey Legtchenko, UPMC-LIP6 in Paris) 2012-03-19 16:00: Evolution of developmental gene expression programs (Itai Yanai (Technion)) 2012-03-20 09:00: Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with Learning (Krishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University) 2012-03-20 09:30: Machines Learning Human Minds (Michal Kosinski, Cambridge University) 2012-03-20 10:00: Approaches to Multiscale Modelling of Complex Systems (Harold Fellerman, University of Southern Denmark) 2012-03-20 10:30: A joint part- and pixel-wise approach to human pose estimation (Lubor Ladický, Oxford Brookes University) 2012-03-20 14:30: How to use simulation studies in understanding and evaluating statistical methods (Ian White, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge) 2012-03-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Hjorth, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 2012-03-21 11:00: Your Abstractions are Worth^H^H^H^H^HPowerless!Non-Volatile Storage and Computation on Embedded Devices*(*Batteries Not Included) (Kevin Fu, University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2012-03-21 13:00: A Step-by-Step Guide to Phylogenetic Analysis (Sebastian Mueller) 2012-03-21 16:00: YouTube Around the World: Geographic Popularity of Videos (Salvatore Scellato (University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-22 10:00: Algebraic Foundations to Effect-Dependent Optimisations (Ohad Kammar, Edinburgh University) 2012-03-22 10:30: Sampling based on local signal analysis: applications to photo-realistic imagery and beyond (Kartic Subr) 2012-03-22 14:00: Structural Learning of Dynamic Bayesian Networks (Matt Henderson (University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-22 16:00: ThinkAir: Dynamic resource allocation and parallel execution in cloud for mobile code offloading (Andrius Aucinas (University of Cambridge)) 2012-03-23 11:00: Helping computers talk from experience (Blaise Thomson, University of Cambridge) 2012-03-24 12:30: How Fast Can Usain Bolt Run? (Professor John D Barrow FRS) 2012-03-26 09:50: Searching, Scanning and Smelling - a portfolio presentation (David Sweeney, London College of Fashion) 2012-03-26 10:45: Solutions for a sustainable and desirable future (Ida Kubiszewski) 2012-03-27 10:00: Methods in decision theory for conservation research (Will Probert, University of Queensland) 2012-03-27 11:00: Ethnography: Understanding natural interaction with our communication technologies (Karine Lan Hing Ting, Telecom ParisTech) 2012-03-27 19:30: What is Pain and how can we treat it? (Prof. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University)) 2012-03-27 19:30: What is Pain and how can we treat it? (Prof. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University)) 2012-03-28 14:00: Non-Interactive Verifiable Computation (Bryan Parno, Microsoft Research) 2012-03-28 18:00: "When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history" (Professor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds) 2012-03-29 09:00: Communication Complexity and When Dubious Data Structures can be Detected (Ranganath Kondapally, Dartmouth College) 2012-03-29 14:00: Topic Modelling (Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT)) 2012-03-30 10:00: Compositional Inter-Language Relational Verification (Chung-Kil Hur, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) 2012-04-02 09:00: Mementos, Memento Mori, and More: Digital Assets across the Human Lifespan (Michael Massimi, University of Toronto) 2012-04-02 09:50: Supporting Active Reading Activities With a Multi-Slate System (Nicholas Chen, University of Maryland) 2012-04-02 10:00: Towards Networks without Management Complexity (Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison) 2012-04-02 10:00: Towards Networks without Management Complexity (Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin, Madison) 2012-04-02 10:35: Empirical evidence in privacy economics (Sören Preibusch) 2012-04-02 11:00: From certified languages to their certified implementations (Pierre-Yves Strub) 2012-04-02 14:00: ShrinkSeq: a flexible and powerful method for Bayesian analysis of RNAseq data (Mark van de Wiel (VU University Medical Center)) 2012-04-02 16:00: Towards Statistical Queries over Distributed Private User Data (Paul Francis (MPI-SWS)) 2012-04-03 09:00: Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with Learning (Krishnamurthy Iyer, Stanford University) 2012-04-05 09:30: The science of guessing (Joseph Bonneau (Cambridge University)) 2012-04-05 09:30: Efficient Machine Learning with High Order and Combinatorial Structures (Danny Tarlow) 2012-04-05 16:00: A JVM for the Barrelfish Operating System (Martin Maas (University of California, Berkeley)) 2012-04-10 10:00: Learning and Representing: a Jointly Optimal Approach (Xinhua Zhang, University of Alberta) 2012-04-10 10:00: Building Flexible High-Performance Key-Value Systems (Amar Phanishayee, Carnegie Mellon University) 2012-04-10 11:00: Generating Code by Learning (Yi Wei, ETH Zurich) 2012-04-10 11:30: Mathematical modelling on remotely-sensed dynamics of marine primary producers (Dr. Shovonlal Roy, University of Oxford) 2012-04-12 14:00: Active Learning (Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)) 2012-04-12 19:30: The Sharing Economy: An Introduction to Collaborative Consumption (CamLETS, Zipcar, Lourish, and more) 2012-04-13 11:00: Computer Assisted Interventions: Challenges in design, development, validation and deployment of novel techniques (Nassir Navab, Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality) 2012-04-13 14:00: Stroke Rehabilitation using Electrical Stimulation & Robotics: Open problems in control, identification, sensing and motor learning (Dr Chris Freeman, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton) 2012-04-16 14:00: Machine learning applications in genetic regulation and cancer (David Westhead (Leeds)) 2012-04-17 12:00: Automating Second Language Acquisition Research: Integrating Information Visualisation and Machine Learning (Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge) 2012-04-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge)) 2012-04-17 16:00: Efficient Cryptography for the Next Generation Secure Cloud (Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University) 2012-04-18 10:30: Confining the Ghost in the Machine: Using Types to Secure JavaScript Sandboxing (Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University) 2012-04-19 11:00: Software Architecture for the Internet of "certain" Things (Prof. Valeriy Vyatkin (University of Auckland)) 2012-04-19 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge)) 2012-04-19 14:00: Weighted Finite-state Automata (Rogier van Dalen, Engineering Dept, Cambridge University) 2012-04-19 15:30: Verification and Synthesis by Sciduction ( Sanjit Seshia, University of California, Berkeley) 2012-04-20 13:15: Roles of ADAM family metalloproteases in cardiovascular development (Atsuko Sehara-Fujisawa, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan) 2012-04-23 14:00: Rekeyable Ideal Cipher from a Few Random Oracles (Elena Andreeva, K.U. Leuven) 2012-04-24 14:00: Setting sample size for common designs when evaluating interventions and biomarkers (Professor Toby Prevost, Kings College London) 2012-04-24 15:00: Rational learning may be minimalist (Paul R. Schrater) 2012-04-25 11:00: A Predictive Study of Bayesian Nonparametric Regression Models (Sara Wade, Bocconi University) 2012-04-25 14:15: Probabilistic Amplitude and Frequency Demodulation (Dr Richard Turner, Machine Learning Group, CUED) 2012-04-26 11:00: Learning and Discovery of Clinically Useful Information from Medical Images (Daniel Rueckert, Imperial College London) 2012-04-26 14:00: Financial Problems tractable to Machine Learning Methods (yue wu (University of Cambridge)) 2012-04-26 14:30: Forks and Factories: Coordination and control of mammalian DNA replication (Dr Catherine Green, Department of Zoology) 2012-04-26 16:00: The physics of bird coloration (Professor Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, NL.) 2012-04-26 16:00: How much calcium does caffeine release from the endoplasmic reticulum in a large snail neurone? (Prof. Roger Thomas, PDN) 2012-04-27 13:15: Interactions between stem cells and their niche in mammalian epidermis (Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2012-04-27 14:00: Engineering cellular systems (Dr Jim Hasellof, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2012-04-27 16:00: The modulational stability and breaking of anelastic internal waves (Bruce Sutherland (Alberta)) 2012-04-30 16:30: Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat. (Prof. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University) 2012-04-30 19:30: Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century (Professor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford) 2012-05-01 13:00: "Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli" (Eero Simoncelli, New York University) 2012-05-01 14:00: Topic Models for Human Activity Understanding (Timothy Hospedales, Queen Mary University, London) 2012-05-02 10:00: Optimal encoding and decoding in sensory populations (Eero Simoncelli (New York University, HHMI)) 2012-05-02 11:15: Non-parametric Bayesian Method and Maximum-A-Posteriori Inference in Statistical Machine Translation (Tsuyoshi Okita (Dublin City University)) 2012-05-02 14:00: Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple Games (Tatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore) 2012-05-02 17:30: Computational Environment Design for Online Communities (Professor David Parkes, Harvard University) 2012-05-02 19:30: Eco-Renovation Question Time (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-05-03 11:30: Visuomotor behavior in naturalistic tasks: from receptive fields to value functions (Constantin Rothkopf, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies) 2012-05-03 14:00: "Structured sparsity and convex optimization" (Francis Bach) 2012-05-03 14:30: “Target site recognition of Hox transcription factors by means of rapid, “trial-and-error” interactions with chromatin.” (Dimitros Papdopoulos, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm) 2012-05-03 16:00: The SUDOKU Coding Project (Jossy Sayir (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-03 16:00: Without a leg to stand on: locomotion in the earliest "land" animals (Dr Stephanie Pierce, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, London) 2012-05-03 16:00: Synaptic time-windows underlying neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Rhiannon Meredith, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research, Netherlands) 2012-05-04 11:15: Past work and future interests: respectively, the scattering of Anyons and Monte Carlo methods (Alexander Matthews) 2012-05-04 12:00: Beyond Shallow Semantics (Martha Palmer, University of Colorado) 2012-05-04 13:15: Molecules of touch and taste sensation (William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2012-05-04 14:00: Compressive failure mechanisms in Composite Laminates with Dropped Plies (Dr Stuart Lemanski, CUED) 2012-05-04 14:00: Single molecule imaging of protein pore assembly using droplet interface bilayers (Dr Mark Wallace, University of Oxford) 2012-05-04 16:00: Effects of turbulence on flame ignition and extinction processes (Nondas Mastorakos (Engineering, Cambridge)) 2012-05-04 16:30: Introduction to Metabolomics (Dr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences.) 2012-05-04 17:30: Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and Policy (Prof Christopher Dobson FRS, and Mr Mark Gorman (as a discussant)) 2012-05-07 14:00: Estimation, Identification and control of cell populations (Professor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich)) 2012-05-08 11:00: Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimation (Barnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2012-05-08 16:00: Modeling stem cell differentiation on multiple scales (Fabian Theis (Helmholtz Center Munich)) 2012-05-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (DJ Strouse (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-08 19:30: Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - How Intelligence Happens (Professor John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2012-05-09 10:00: Assessing Information Risks in Engineering Asset Management (Valeria Klassen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) 2012-05-09 14:00: Weightedness and Structural Characterization of Hierarchical Simple Games (Tatiana Gvozdeva, NTU Singapore) 2012-05-09 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-05-10 10:00: Information quality research at the University of South Australia (Dr Jing Gao, Senior lecturer, University of South Australia) 2012-05-10 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Andrew Gordon Wilson) 2012-05-10 14:00: Dirichlet Process Mixture Models and Bayesian Nonparametric Density Estimation (Andrew Gordon Wilson ()) 2012-05-10 14:30: Bending the not so simple mind of the fruit fly (Scott Waddell Ph.D Professor of Neurobiology, University of Oxford) 2012-05-10 16:00: Exploiting the Structure of Human Mobility for Opportunistic Networks (Theus Hossmann (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-10 16:00: Controlling recombination: from worms to human disease (Professor Simon Boulton, CRUK Clare Hall Laboratories, UK.) 2012-05-10 16:00: Epo's impact on exercise performance (Prof. Max Gassmann, University of Zurich, Swisserland) 2012-05-10 19:00: The Inner Beauty of Crystals (Ian Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired)) 2012-05-11 13:15: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating epidermal stem cell fate (Michaela Frye, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2012-05-11 14:00: Insect biomechanics - from sticky feet to broken legs and ruptured wings (Dr Jan-Henning Dirks : Trinity College Dublin) 2012-05-11 14:00: Ionomer Design Principles for Ion-Conducting Energy Materials (Professor Ralph Colby, Pennsylvania State University, USA) 2012-05-14 14:30: Cancer, Development & Adult Tissue Maintenance (Prof. Nicholas Hastie MRC HGU and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine) 2012-05-14 16:00: The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes (Henrik Kaessmann (Lausanne)) 2012-05-14 16:30: Hippocampal interneuron types specifically related to complex behaviours (Tamas Freund. Institute of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary) 2012-05-14 19:30: What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty (Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk) 2012-05-15 10:30: “New Insights into the Mechanisms and Selectivity of Protein Degradation by the Proteasome Pathway” (Alfred Lewis Goldberg - Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School ( guest of St Johns College)) 2012-05-15 14:30: Congenial multiple imputation of partially observed covariates within the full conditional specification framework (Jonathan Bartlett, LSHTM.) 2012-05-17 14:00: A rough guide to the Aldous-Hoover representation theorem for exchangeable arrays (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-17 14:00: Product Intelligence in Intermodal Transportation: The Dynamic Routing Problem (Vaggelis Giannikas) 2012-05-17 14:30: Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of emergency and modular rearrangements of protein domains (Prof. Erich Bornberg-Bauer PhD, Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity School of Biol.Sciences, University of Muenster) 2012-05-17 16:00: Facebook and Privacy: The Balancing Act of Personality, Gender, and Relationship Currency (Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-17 16:00: Neurochemical control of aggression - insights from crickets (Professor Paul Stevenson, University of Leipzig, Germany) 2012-05-17 16:00: Origin and properties of adult neural stem cells in the zebrafish brain: role of Notch signaling (Prof. Laure Bally-Cuif, University of Paris Sud, France) 2012-05-18 12:00: Repair and adherence in patient-clinician dialogues (Matthew Purver -- Queen Mary, University of London) 2012-05-18 13:15: Finding the correct pairing partner during meiosis: events inside and outside the nucleus (Enrique Martinez-Perez, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London) 2012-05-18 14:00: Graduate Student Seminar (Mr Iman Mohaghegian CUED - Mr Wojciech Szlachta CUED) 2012-05-18 14:00: Shocks in fragile matter (Professor Vincenzo Vitelli, Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics, Leiden University, The Netherlands) 2012-05-18 14:00: Economic MPC and the role of exponential turnpike properties (Professor. Dr. Lars Gruene, Chair of Applied Mathematics, Bayreuth University) 2012-05-18 16:00: Extension of Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings' acoustic analogy to turbomachinery cascade noise prediction with swirl (Helene Posson (Damtp)) 2012-05-18 18:30: What makes us happy? (Professor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute) 2012-05-21 11:00: Biological Image Analysis Made Easy (Fred Hamprecht (Heidelberg)) 2012-05-22 13:30: Information Spreading in Social Networks (Flavio Chierichetti) 2012-05-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2012-05-23 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-05-24 09:00: Eighth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute (Various Speakers) 2012-05-24 14:00: Poisson Processes: Applications in Machine Learning (Amar Shah (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-24 16:00: Economics of BitTorrent Communities (Ian Kash (MSR Cambridge)) 2012-05-24 16:00: Mechanism regulating neural differentiation (Prof. Kate Storey, Cell and Devlopmental Biology division, University of Dundee) 2012-05-24 16:00: The genetics underlying emergence and diversification of a wing decoration in fruitflies (Dr Nicolas Gompel, IBDML, Marseille, France) 2012-05-25 12:00: Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection (Awais Athar, University of Cambridge) 2012-05-25 12:30: Modeling coherence in ESOL learner texts (Helen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge) 2012-05-25 13:15: A quantitative view of gene expression levels (Sarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2012-05-25 14:00: Engineering and Control of Biological circuits: from yeast to mammalian cells (Dr. Diego di Bernardo, Research Assistant Professor (Ricercatore), University of Naples “Federico II”) 2012-05-25 14:00: Modelling of Explosively Driven Fragmentation Metals (Professor Rade Vignjevic FRAeS, Applied Mechanics and Astronautics Department, School of Engineering, Cranfield University) 2012-05-28 19:30: Bacteria as Active Colloids (Professor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh) 2012-05-29 16:00: Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron (Dr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology) 2012-05-30 14:15: Introduction to the physics and modelling of electro- and magnetoencephalography (Dr Matti Stenroos, Aalto University) 2012-05-31 14:00: On Data (In-)Dependent Hashing (Novi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge)) 2012-05-31 14:00: Asset Management Decisions and Performance Measurement (Nipat Rasmekomen) 2012-05-31 16:00: Attacks and defenses in decentralised botnets (Shishir Nagaraja (University of Birmingham)) 2012-05-31 16:00: Coordinating developmental timing with tissue growth (Dr Alisson Gontijo, Instituto de Neurociencias, CSIC-UMH Unidad de Neurobiología del Desarrollo, Alicante) 2012-06-01 12:00: Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge) 2012-06-01 12:30: Semi-supervised learning for automatic conceptual property extraction (Colin Kelly, University of Cambridge) 2012-06-01 14:00: Numerical simulation of two-phase chemically-active flows (Dr Nikos Nikiforakis, Cavendish Lab) 2012-06-01 14:07: Effective approximate solution for a scalar Wiener-Hopf problem (Anastasia Kisil) 2012-06-01 14:20: Internal wave attractors (Rob Sutton) 2012-06-01 14:33: The effect of a magnetised atmosphere on the magnetic buoyancy instability (Will Edmunds) 2012-06-01 14:46: Infinity-norm optimal perturbations in a 2D channel flow (Dimitry Foures) 2012-06-01 14:59: Turbulent mixing of an initially linear stable stratification in Taylor-Couette flow (Rosie Oglethorpe) 2012-06-01 15:12: Stratification confined Rayleigh-Taylor mixing (Megan Davies Wykes) 2012-06-01 15:25: Drop formation of power-law fluid coating a vertical fibre (Liyan Yu) 2012-06-01 16:04: Green buildings: the effects of non-adiabatic boundaries on natural ventilation (Jamie Partridge) 2012-06-01 16:17: Convective shutdown in a porous medium (Duncan Hewitt) 2012-06-01 16:30: A simple dynamical model of gravity drainage of brine from growing sea ice (David Rees Jones) 2012-06-01 16:43: Pattern formation in polariton condensates (Guido Franchetti) 2012-06-01 16:56: Cyclosis in vitro: macro-circulation from micro-activity (Francis Woodhouse) 2012-06-01 17:09: Coupling of active motion and advection shapes intracellular cargo transport (Philipp Khuc Trong) 2012-06-01 17:22: The flagellum as a living oscillator (Kirsty Wan) 2012-06-06 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-06-07 11:00: The Quest for Zero-Effort Indoor Localization (Venkat Padmanabhan (MSR)) 2012-06-07 14:00: The Inverted Multi-Index (Victor Lempitsky, Yandex) 2012-06-07 14:00: ISMM Student Project Presentations (Maxime Laine and Dionysios Kola and Alberto) 2012-06-07 14:30: Rapid evolution of mammalian genomes and transcriptomes (Chris Ponting, MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford) 2012-06-07 16:00: Sequencing nucleic acids: from chemistry to life sciences and personalised medicine (Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian, Dept of Chemistry) 2012-06-07 16:00: Lock Inference in the Presence of Large Libraries (Khilan Gudka (University of Cambridge)) 2012-06-07 16:00: The secret lives of the translesion polymerases (Dr Julian Sale, LMB, Cambridge) 2012-06-07 18:30: Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden (Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden) 2012-06-08 14:00: Lattice materials for the design of hip replacement implants (Professor Damiano Pasini, McGill University) 2012-06-08 16:00: Synchronisation of eukaryotic flagella (Marco Polin (DAMTP)) 2012-06-08 18:30: PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-06-11 19:30: Genetics and Evolution of Transmissible Cancers in Dogs and Tasmanian Devils (Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Fellow of Medical Sciences, King's College, Cambridge) 2012-06-12 16:00: Using C. elegans as a model for neurodegenerative diseases (Chris Li, City College of New York, USA) 2012-06-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2012-06-12 17:30: Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine (Dr James Grime - University of Cambridge) 2012-06-14 10:00: Web Science: Politics, Demographics and More (Ingmar Weber) 2012-06-14 16:00: Sense and Sensibility in a Pervasive World (Christos Efstratiou (University of Cambridge)) 2012-06-14 16:00: Food for thought: visceral control of nutritional decisions in Drosophila (Dr Irene Miguel-Aliag, Dept of Zoology) 2012-06-14 17:00: Categorical dynamics (Paul Seidel (MIT)) 2012-06-15 12:00: Following Wisdom in Machine Learning (Novi Quadrianto, University of Cambridge) 2012-06-15 14:00: Mechanical properties of electrospun nanofibres (Dr Bin Wang, Brunel University) 2012-06-15 16:00: Sand ripples and dunes (Francois Charru (Toulouse)) 2012-06-18 14:15: Understanding human behaviour from motion (Gentiane Venture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.) 2012-06-19 10:00: Energy Debugging in Smartphones (Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University)) 2012-06-19 10:00: Energy Debugging in Smartphones (Y. Charlie Hu, Purdue) 2012-06-19 11:00: Optimal data combination in seamless Phase II/III clinical trials (Lisa Hampson, Lancaster University.) 2012-06-19 11:00: Discovery of Complex Behaviors through Contact-Invariant Optimization (Igor Mordatch (University of Washington)) 2012-06-19 13:00: Probabilistic Programming and Probabilistic Databases for Large-scale Knowledge-base Construction (Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2012-06-19 14:00: Financial Modelling with 2-EPT Levy Processes (Professor Bernard Hanzon, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University College Cork) 2012-06-19 17:00: The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again? (Colm O’Shea, Founder, Comac Capital and Jamie MacIntosh, Director of the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies, University College London) 2012-06-19 18:30: Turing Patterns and Animal Markings (Ian Stewart FRS, University of Warwick Mathematics Institute) 2012-06-20 11:00: The RCUK Digital Economy Theme – A Catalyst for Change (Dr. John G. Baird, Lead for the RCUK Digital Economy Theme, EPSRC) 2012-06-20 11:30: GP-BUCB for Spinal Cord Injury Therapy: Batch Active Learning with Applications (Thomas Desautels (California Institute of Technology)) 2012-06-20 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-06-21 11:00: Dependent normalized random measures (Changyou Chen (College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University)) 2012-06-21 13:00: Local and nonlocal energy transfers in a family of geophysically relevant 2D turbulence models (Bel Helen Burgess (University of Toronto)) 2012-06-21 14:00: Product Intelligence: Theory and Practice (Prof. Duncan McFarlane (University of Cambridge)) 2012-06-21 16:00: Generalizing Database Architecture (Eric Sedlar (Oracle Labs)) 2012-06-22 11:00: Towards Trustworthy Embedded Systems (Gernot Heiser (University of New South Wales/NICTA)) 2012-06-22 12:00: Learning Syntactic Verb Frames Using Graphical Models (Tom Lippincott, University of Cambridge) 2012-06-22 12:30: Fuse Project and Citation Analysis (Dain Kaplan - University of Cambridge) 2012-06-22 15:15: Machine Learning for medical Image Analysis (Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-06-25 16:00: The life histories of 21 breast cancers (Peter van Loo (Sanger Institute)) 2012-06-26 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2012-06-27 11:00: Code-Level Formal Verification for Large Real Systems (Mark Staples (NICTA)) 2012-06-28 13:30: Communication networks in markets (Edoardo Gallo, University of Cambridge) 2012-06-28 14:00: Towards the resilient firm (Maurizio Tomasella (DIAL) and Simon Ford (CTM)) 2012-06-28 14:15: Harvesting the Wisdom of Crowds (Yoram Bachrach, Microsoft Research) 2012-06-28 15:30: Scarce attention and the value of page rank in online search (Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics) 2012-06-28 16:00: Optimizing multi-layered networks with long range dependent traffic (Moshe Zukerman (City University of Hong Kong)) 2012-06-28 16:00: Zonostrophic instability (Professor W. R. Young) 2012-06-28 16:30: Managing air traffic disruptions through strategic prioritization (Ian Kash, Microsoft Research) 2012-06-29 09:15: Decentralized Auctions for Uniformly Semimodular Bidders (Mahyar Salek, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-06-29 10:00: Human Mobility Characterization from Cellular Network Data (Ramón Cáceres (AT&T Labs)) 2012-06-29 10:00: Game theory for Security: Key Algorithmic Principles, Deployed Systems, Lessons Learned (Milind Tambe, University of Southern California) 2012-06-29 11:15: Blotto On Facebook: The Effect of Social Relations On Strategic Interaction (Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-06-29 12:00: Data Mining and Information Extraction for CiteSeerX and Friends (Dr. C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University) 2012-06-29 12:00: Network Design and Defence (Marcin Dziubinski, University of Cambridge) 2012-06-29 13:00: Planetary wave propagation and breaking between the eddy-driven and subtropical jets (Amanda O'Rourke (Princeton)) 2012-06-29 14:00: Treasure Hunt (Markus Mobius, Microsoft Research) 2012-06-29 15:00: Aggregators and the News Industry: Charging for Access to Content (James Rutt, University of Cambridge) 2012-06-29 16:30: How reciprocity renders networks irrelevant for cooperation in social dilemmas (Anxo Sanchez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) 2012-07-02 16:00: Variational Methods in 3+Dimensional Biomedical Imaging (Martin Burger (Uni Münster)) 2012-07-02 16:00: Connecting the Disconnected (Robin Kravets (University of Illinois)) 2012-07-03 11:00: Functional first programming in an information-rich world (Kenji Takeda, Microsoft Research Connections) 2012-07-03 11:00: Structured Prediction using Linear Programming Relaxations (David Sontag (NYU)) 2012-07-03 14:00: Planetary prediction services for society (Matthew Smith, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-07-03 14:00: Realizing Touchless Interaction in the Operating Theatre (Helena Mentis, Microsoft Research) 2012-07-03 15:15: Towards Predictable Data Centers- Why Johnny can't use the cloud and what can we do about it? (Thomas Karagiannis, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-07-03 15:15: Machine Learning for medical Image Analysis (Antonio Criminisi, Microsoft Research) 2012-07-03 16:45: Proving that programs eventually do something good (Byron Cook, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-07-03 16:45: Human Computing and Crowdsourcing in Search (Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research) 2012-07-04 09:30: Microsoft Academic Search (Alex Wade, Microsoft Research Connections) 2012-07-04 11:00: How to write a great research paper (Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-07-04 11:00: Non-parametric Bayesian Learning of User Preferences: Elicitation, Sparsification and Beyond (Edwin Bonilla (NICTA/ANU)) 2012-07-04 14:00: How to give a great research talk (Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-07-04 14:00: Fast Gaussian process learning for regression, semi-supervised classification, and multiway analysis (Prof Alan Qi (Purdue U)) 2012-07-04 15:00: Microsoft Research Connections and Cloud Computing for Science (Fabrizio Gagliardi, Microsoft Research Connections) 2012-07-04 16:30: .NET Gadgeteer: A Platform for Custom Devices (Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Microsoft Research) 2012-07-04 17:00: F# Tutorial (Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge) 2012-07-05 09:30: Body Part Recognition: Making Kinect Robust (Jamie Shotton, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-07-05 14:00: Top down model of condition based maintenance for complex asset (Zhenglin Liang) 2012-07-05 16:00: Cows under the radar: The genetics of tuberculosis susceptibility in Britain (Bill Amos - Department of Zoology) 2012-07-06 11:00: Architectures for large-scale continuous data management (Dionysios Logothetis (Telefonica)) 2012-07-06 11:00: How to present a poster at an international conference (Sue Duraikan, Duraikan Training) 2012-07-06 13:00: Characterising the evolutionary trajectories generating C4 photosynthesis through inference of phenotypic transition networks (Ben Williams, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2012-07-09 14:00: IIT Intern Student Project Presentations (Abhinav Prakash (IIT Kanpur) and Sushant Agarwal (IIT Mumbai)) 2012-07-10 14:00: Probabilistic Methods in Cancer Biology (Prof. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas) 2012-07-13 11:00: Prediction Strategies without Loss (Rina Panigrahy, Senior Researcher, MSR-Silicon Valley Campus) 2012-07-14 10:00: Open Eco Gardens (Various) 2012-07-17 13:00: Nanoparticle-based electrodes for sustainable energy (Dr Scott Warren, Northwestern University) 2012-07-18 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-07-19 14:00: Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories & Generalized Multiple Kernel Learning with a Million Kernels (Manik Varma, Microsoft Research, India) 2012-07-19 16:00: The Importance of Being Placefriends: Discovering Location-focused Online Communities (Chloë Brown (University of Cambridge)) 2012-07-19 16:00: 'Bacterial community diversity of the American alligator gastrointestinal tract' ( Sarah Keenan - Louisiana State University) 2012-07-23 14:00: Causality for Free! Parametricity Implies Causality for Functional Reactive Programs (Alan Jeffrey, Bell Labs) 2012-07-24 14:00: Part A: Non-parametric image optimization & Part B: Crowdsourcing gaze data collection (Dan Goldman, Adobe Inc) 2012-07-24 14:30: Tracking the Coffee Supply Chain with EPC RFID – A real case (Fredy Joao Valente, CTO - COSS Consulting – Brazil) 2012-07-26 16:00: Be careful what you wish for: the issues and politics of generating a potentially human-to-human transmissible bird flu virus (Professor Derek Smith. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.) 2012-07-27 11:00: Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields (Konstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College)) 2012-07-31 14:00: SmartDesign: Living with Geometric Complexity (Niloy Mitra, University College London) 2012-08-02 11:00: Cube and Conquer: Guiding CDCL SAT Solvers by Lookaheads (Marijn Heule, U. of Texas, Austin) 2012-08-02 14:00: IFMA Student Project Presentation (Nicholas Boutevin) 2012-08-02 14:00: On Agent Failures in Totally Balanced Cooperative Games (Nisarg Shah, Microsoft Research) 2012-08-02 16:00: Making Middleboxes Someone Else's Problem: Network Processing as a Cloud Service (Justine Sherry ( UC Berkeley)) 2012-08-03 14:00: Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing Costs (Pedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)) 2012-08-03 14:00: Personalised mental health monitoring (Szymon Fedor) 2012-08-07 14:00: Achieving High Data Rates in a Distributed MIMO System (Horia Vlad Balan, USC) 2012-08-08 14:00: Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general framework (Prof. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)) 2012-08-09 12:00: The mechanical energy budget of the geostrophic circulation in the World Ocean (Rob Scott (Laboratoire de Physique des Océans/University of Brest) ) 2012-08-14 10:30: Concurrent Data Representation Synthesis (Mooly Sagiv, Tel-Aviv University) 2012-08-17 10:00: Verifying Concurrent Programs with Relaxed Conflict Detection (Serdar Tasiran, Koç University) 2012-08-20 10:00: HyperDex: A Consistent, Fault-tolerant, Searchable NoSQL Store (Bernard Wong, University of Waterloo) 2012-08-21 14:00: Context sensitive information: Which bits matter in data? (Joachim Buhmann, ETH Zurich) 2012-08-22 14:00: Satisfiability: connecting logic and probability (ramdas aaditya, CMU and intern) 2012-08-22 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-08-24 11:00: Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learning (Simon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris)) 2012-08-29 11:00: Rapidly deployable TDMA mesh network with application to disaster management (Vinay Ribeiro (Indian Institute of Technology)) 2012-08-29 14:00: Latent Hough Transform for Object Detection (Nima Razavi, ETH Zurich and Intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2012-08-30 14:00: Tell Me Where You’ve Lived and What You Want -- I’ll Tell You What You Like and Need (Abraham Bernstein, University of Zurich) 2012-09-01 13:00: September Swishing with Cambridge Carbon Footprint (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-09-05 10:30: Perceiving is Believing: Bayesian inference in unexpected places. (Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby, UCL) 2012-09-06 15:00: From Pose Estimation to Fine Grained Activity Recognition (Micha Andriluka, Max Planck Institute for Informatics) 2012-09-07 14:00: Capture of dynamic scene using multiple cameras provides rich spatial-temporal information that can be used for solving challenging computer vision problems. (Tali Basha, Tel-Aviv University) 2012-09-10 14:00: Craig Interpretation (Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto) 2012-09-10 16:00: From protein networks to disease mechanisms (Roded Sharan (Tel-Aviv University)) 2012-09-12 16:00: Efficient Sampling with Kernel Herding (Yutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink) 2012-09-13 19:00: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit (Jason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC) 2012-09-18 14:30: Modelling the growth and transmission of infectious disease by linking epidemiology and population genetics (Daniel Wilson, University of Oxford) 2012-09-18 16:00: Audio/Video R&D at Google (Paul Wilkins and Jan Skoglund, Chrome Media and Tom Walters, Google Ears) 2012-09-19 11:00: Playing in the Grey Area of Proofs (Laura Kovács, Technical University of Vienna) 2012-09-19 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-09-20 11:15: Robot-assisted therapy for autism (Jaeryoung Lee, Nagoya University) 2012-09-21 10:00: Scale-Out Processors (Boris Grot, EPFL) 2012-09-24 10:00: Fast and Reliable Online Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval (Katja Hofmann, University of Amsterdam) 2012-09-24 11:00: Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India)) 2012-09-25 10:00: On Synthesis of Verification Tools (Andrey Rybalchenko, Technische Universität München) 2012-09-25 13:00: A Theory of the Meridional Overturning Circulation of the Ocean (Geoff Vallis (Princeton)) 2012-09-25 15:00: Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference (Matthias Seeger, EPFL) 2012-09-26 11:00: Compressed Sensing Applications in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Christine Law (Oxford University)) 2012-09-27 10:00: A new metric on kernel matrices with applications to matrix means (Suvrit Sra, Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen (Germany)) 2012-09-28 10:30: Network biology of cancer (Andrea Califano (Columbia University, New York)) 2012-10-01 11:00: Probabilistic Latent Tensor Factorisation (Taylan Cemgil, Bogazici University) 2012-10-02 14:30: Modelling heterogeneity in gene expression using the matrix-variate normal distribution (Anestis Touloumis, EBI, Cambridge) 2012-10-03 15:00: Distributed Opportunistic Scheduling: A Control Theoretic Approach (Albert Banchs, University Carlos III) 2012-10-04 16:00: Study of Twitter unfollow behavior (Sue Moon (KAIST)) 2012-10-04 16:00: From Mammoth to Microscope: Life History and Dental Development in Mammals (Dr Wendy Dirks, University of Newcastle) 2012-10-05 14:00: Biological Materials and Mechanics: An overview (Professor Marc André Meyers, Departments of Nanoengineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, U. of California, San Diego) 2012-10-05 16:00: Freezing colloidal suspensions: Periodic ice-banding (Anthony Anderson (Damtp)) 2012-10-08 14:00: A Benefits Management Approach to Reduce the Risk of IT Project Failures (Dr Gilbert Fridgen, Research Center Finance & Information Management, Augsburg University) 2012-10-08 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe (Professor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff) 2012-10-08 17:30: The Larmor Lecture (Professor Mike Edmunds) 2012-10-09 14:30: Predictive analytic modelling in clinical trials (patient recruitment, randomization and drug supply) (Vladimir Anisimov, Qunitiles) 2012-10-10 14:00: Microtubule assemblers (Rob Cross, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,Warwick Medical School ) 2012-10-11 11:15: First seminar of the year (Everyone) 2012-10-11 12:00: Nested patterns in large-scale automotive supply networks (Alexandra Brintrup (Cranfield)) 2012-10-11 12:00: Mendelian Randomization: the next ten years? (Professor George Davey-Smith, University of Bristol) 2012-10-11 14:30: Model selection in a large compositional space (Roger Grosse (MIT)) 2012-10-11 16:00: The Promises of a Polychrome Retina (Professor Bill Harris. Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge University ) 2012-10-11 16:00: Towards productive parallel programming: Unified Parallel C (Montse Farreras (Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya)) 2012-10-11 16:00: Urban*: Crowdsourcing for the good of London (Daniele Quercia (University of Cambridge)) 2012-10-11 19:00: Food Detectives - Some curious cases with a chemical twist (Dr Ellen Norman, Reading Scientific Services Ltd (RSSL)) 2012-10-12 10:00: Dynamically Enforcing Knowledge-based Security Policies (Michael Hicks, University of Maryland) 2012-10-12 12:00: A New Twist on Methodologies for ESL Grammatical Error Detection (Joel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service) 2012-10-12 12:00: The Dog That Didn't Bark: How Computational Analysis of Complex Cell Signaling Data Can Find Surprising Critical Regulatory Nodes (Doug Lauffenberger (MIT)) 2012-10-12 13:15: Deciphering gene regulatory circuitry underlying early steps of neural crest development (Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford) 2012-10-12 14:00: The response of submerged structures to blast in deep water (Andreas Schiffer, University of Oxford) 2012-10-12 14:00: Innovation in Cambridge Engineering – how to foster it? (Pieter Knook, Sam Beale and Rick MItchell) 2012-10-12 14:00: Dynamic arrest in polymer gels (Johan Mattsson, Soft Matter Physics Group School of Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds) 2012-10-12 16:00: Eulerian dispersive shock waves and instabilities (Mark Hoefer (North Carolina State)) 2012-10-15 19:00: Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover (Professor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics) 2012-10-16 14:00: From the Information Extraction Pipeline to Global Models, and Back (Sebastian Riedel, UCL) 2012-10-16 14:30: Bayesian hierarchical models and recent computational development using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation, with applications to pre-implantation genetic screening in IVF (Gianluca Baio, University College, London) 2012-10-16 16:00: Distributed, Real-Time Bayesian Learning in Online Services (Ralf Herbrich (Facebook)) 2012-10-16 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge)) 2012-10-17 13:30: Boeing research and technology (William Krechel, Boeing Research and Technology) 2012-10-17 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-10-17 19:00: Leaves, Loops and Leonardo: The Generation of Biological Forms (Prof. Enrico Coen (JI Professor of Biology, East Anglia)) 2012-10-18 11:15: Modeling and Predicting Emotion in Music (Erik M. Schmidt (Drexel University)) 2012-10-18 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Alexander Aulehla - EMBL Heidelberg) 2012-10-18 14:30: Phase-shifted gene-activity oscillations during embryo development - a real-time imaging approach. (Dr Alexander Aulehla from EMBL Heidelberg ) 2012-10-18 14:30: Completely Random Measures in Bayesian Nonparametrics (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge), Creighton Heaukulani) 2012-10-18 16:00: From geek-dream to mass-market: Will privacy-preserving technologies ever be adopted? (Hamed Haddadi (Queen Mary, University of London)) 2012-10-18 16:00: What is evidence-based reproductive medicine and what part did the Physiology Department in Cambridge play historically in its development? (Professor Martin Johnson. Cambridge University. ) 2012-10-19 12:00: Handling obsolete information in classification: is there a one-size-fits-all strategy? (Christoforos Anagnostopoulos, Imperial College London) 2012-10-19 13:15: Balancing cell potency and specification in stem cells and in the early embryo (Veronique Azuara, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London) 2012-10-19 14:00: Coarse-grained modelling of DNA for biophysics and nanotechnology (Dr Ard Louis, Rudolph Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK) 2012-10-19 16:00: CANCELLED: Double-diffusive convection (Pascale Garaud (UCSC)) 2012-10-22 11:00: Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulations (Jes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen)) 2012-10-22 17:30: How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns (Professor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2012-10-23 14:00: Towards ad hoc interactions with robots (Subramanian Ramamoorthy, University of Edinburgh) 2012-10-24 14:00: Dual-Tree Complex Wavelets - their key properties and a range of image-processing applications (Prof Nick Kingsbury, Signal Processing and Communications Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2012-10-24 17:30: Preventing cancer with vaccines: progress in the global control of cancer (Dr Mark Kane) 2012-10-25 11:15: Conference talks' practice run (Prof. Neil Dodgson, Marwa Mahmoud) 2012-10-25 14:00: TIRM - A Risk Based Approach for Building Business Cases for DQ/IQ Improvement (Alexander Borek and Philip Woodall, DIAL) 2012-10-25 14:30: Provisional Title - A Life in Science : from academia to industry to political decision making and back (Sr Peter Williams CBE FREng FRS (The Royal Society)) 2012-10-25 14:30: A life in science: from academia to industry and back. (Sir Peter Williams from The Royal Society ) 2012-10-25 14:30: Identification of causal effects (Nevena Lazic) 2012-10-25 16:00: The seven deadly sins of cloud computing research (Malte Schwarzkopf (University of Cambridge)) 2012-10-25 16:00: Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memory (Dr Mayank Mehta. UCLA.) 2012-10-25 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith (Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) 2012-10-26 12:00: A fast and simple algorithm for training neural probabilistic language models (Andriy Mnih, University College London) 2012-10-26 13:15: Dissection of the cellular and molecular hierarchy of the bronchioalveolar epithelium in homeostasis and disease (Juan-Jose Ventura, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2012-10-26 14:00: Bioactive glasses and their hybrids as scaffolds for regenerative medicine (Dr Julian Jones, Department of Materials, Imperial College London, UK) 2012-10-26 14:30: Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibre – a new sort of stuff? (Professor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science) 2012-10-26 14:30: "Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibre - a new sort of stuff" (Professor Alan Windle, Department of Materials Science) 2012-10-26 16:00: Measurements of roughness noise (William Devenport (Virginia Tech)) 2012-10-29 19:00: CSAR Green Energy Debate (Professor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson) 2012-10-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2012-10-30 19:00: Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviour (Dr Mario de Bono (Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge)) 2012-10-30 19:30: 'Losing your world while falling asleep' (Dr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2012-10-31 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-10-31 16:30: Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) College of Scholar Presentations & Networking Event (Prof Alan Heaton) 2012-10-31 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Lord Young of Graffham (Lord Young of Graffham) 2012-10-31 19:00: Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Diagnostics (Prof. Chris Lowe (Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, Cambridge)) 2012-11-01 11:15: First-year presentations ( Vaiva Imbrasaite, Alistair Stead, Henrik Lieng) 2012-11-01 14:30: PTEN phosphatase-independent maintenance of apical membrane integrity during colorectal glandular morphogenesis. (Professor F. C. Campbell from the Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University, Belfast ) 2012-11-01 16:00: Auxin, self-organisation and the colonial nature of plants (Dr Ottoline Leyser. Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge. ) 2012-11-01 16:00: Deduplication in VM Environments (Frank Bellosa (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)) 2012-11-01 16:00: From VB Wigglesworth to H-factors. Lessons from my first 50 years of research (Peter A. Lawrence, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-02 13:15: The role of Dicer and miRNAs in regulating neural stem cell multipotency (Therese Andersson, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.) 2012-11-02 14:00: Colloidal Dispersions in External Fields (Professor Stefan Egelhaaf, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany) 2012-11-02 14:00: Some spiral structures in biology (Professor Chris Calladine, CUED) 2012-11-02 16:00: Exotic behavior of hexagonal patterns in Faraday surface waves (Laurette Tuckerman (ESPCI)) 2012-11-05 17:30: Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings (Professor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) 2012-11-06 16:00: Coding with Dendrites (Panayiota Poirazi) 2012-11-07 16:15: Naiad: a system for incremental, iterative and interactive parallel computation (Frank McSherry (MSR Silicon Valley)) 2012-11-07 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Seeing is believing: how a Century after its discovery, Bragg's Law allows us to peer into molecules that read the information in our genes (Dr Venki Ramakrishnan FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2012-11-07 19:00: Using selfish genes to reduce malaria (Prof. Charles Godfray (Hope Professor, Oxford and President, British Ecological Society)) 2012-11-08 11:00: Whole life management of service knowledge in aerospace domain (Tariq (DIAL)) 2012-11-08 11:15: Computer mediated living in the Roger Needham building (Tim Regan (Microsoft Research)) 2012-11-08 13:30: Distributional compositional models of semantics (Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory)) 2012-11-08 14:00: A computer-checked proof of the Odd Order theorem (Georges Gonthier, MSRC) 2012-11-08 14:30: Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model. (Dr Pavel Tomancak from MPI for Cell Biology, Dresden ) 2012-11-08 16:00: Breaking for Commercials: Characterizing Mobile Advertising (Narseo Vallina Rodriguez (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-08 16:00: Ephrin and netrin synergy in spinal motor neuron axon guidance (Dr. Artur Kania, Neural Circuit Development research unit Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM)) 2012-11-08 19:00: Fireworks and Waterworks! Spectacular demonstration lecture. (Dr Andy Szydlo, Highgate School, London) 2012-11-08 19:00: PhD or no PhD? (PhD Students) 2012-11-09 11:00: MIT Media Lab's Information Ecology Group (Henry Holtzman, MIT Media Lab) 2012-11-09 12:00: Compositionality modelling and non-compositionality detection with distributional semantics (Diana McCarthy, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-09 13:15: How variable clones build an invariant retina (Benjamin Simons, Cavendish Laboratory/ Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-09 14:00: Mechanics of soft membranes and interfaces: anisotropy; nonlinearity; buckling (Dr Pietro Cicuta, Cavendish Laboratory) 2012-11-09 14:00: Influence of the Glass Transition on the Liquid-gas Spinodal Decomposition (Professor Walter Kob, Universite Montpellier 2, France) 2012-11-09 16:00: Flow control using Galerkin projection and system identification (Peter Schmid (LadHyX)) 2012-11-09 17:30: Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality? (Matias Attwel - Director of Social and Mobile Media of Terra Latinoamérica; Nico Perez - Co-founder of Mixcloud; Professor Jon Crowcroft (host) - Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge) 2012-11-12 11:00: TypeScript: JavaScript development at scale (Mads Torgersen, Microsoft) 2012-11-12 13:00: Terabit traffic vs. von Neumann - Ensoft Technical Talk (Simon Chatterjee, CTO Ensoft) 2012-11-12 16:30: Genetic Dissection of the Fly Visual Course Control (Axel Borst) 2012-11-12 19:00: Are We Alone? (Dr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-13 11:00: Linked Data / Open Data and Semantic Web standards and tools for meaningful integration of information (Mark Harrison (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-14 15:00: Finite Volume Methods for Wave Propagation in Elastic and Poroelastic Materials (Randall J LeVeque, Applied Mathematics Dept, University of Washington) 2012-11-14 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-11-14 19:00: Evolution of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian Devils (Dr Elizabeth Murchison (Junior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge)) 2012-11-15 11:15: Some thoughts on DesignScript and Exploratory Programming (Luke Church (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-15 11:30: Learning of Milky Way Model Parameters Using Matrix-variate Data in a New Gaussian Process-based Method (Dr Dalia Chakrabarty (University of Warwick)) 2012-11-15 14:30: Systems-based, quantitative analyses of genomic function and variation. (Dr Bart Deplancke from EPFL Lausanne ) 2012-11-15 14:30: Modern Neural Networks: the Hinton Camp (Richard Turner, Mark van der Wilk) 2012-11-15 16:00: Combinatorial and Dynamic Control Logic within pathogen-responsive Gene Regulatory Networks (Professor Alexander Hoffmann. University of California San Diego. ) 2012-11-15 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Lord O'Donnell (Lord O'Donnell, Former Cabinet Secretary) 2012-11-15 19:30: The Bioregional Economy: A public talk based on the new book by renowned green economist Molly Scott Cato (Molly Scott Cato, Roehampton University) 2012-11-15 19:30: The Bioregional Economy: A public talk based on the new book by renowned green economist Molly Scott Cato (Molly Scott Cato, Roehampton University) 2012-11-15 19:30: The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato (Molly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud.) 2012-11-16 10:00: A histone tail: Pre-messenger RNA splicing and the coordinated control of gene expression (Dr Tracy Johnson. UC San Diego.) 2012-11-16 12:00: Predict, Price and Cut: Column and Row Generation for Structured Prediction ( Sebastian Riedel, University College London) 2012-11-16 13:00: Next Wave of Telco´s Innovation (Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica) 2012-11-16 13:15: Decoding the Notch signal (Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-16 14:00: Social Fluids (Professor Matthew Turner, University of Warwick, UK) 2012-11-16 14:00: Optimal kernel choice for kernel hypothesis testing (Arthur Gretton, UCL) 2012-11-16 14:30: Aspects of science, technology and government (Professor Roderick Smith, Imperial College) 2012-11-16 14:30: Aspects of science, technology and government (Professor Roderick Smith, Imperial College) 2012-11-16 15:00: Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Discovery Mechanism for Frequency Allocation (Magnus Skjegstad (University of Oslo)) 2012-11-19 16:30: Adrian Lecture Cancelled (Eve Marder. Brandeis University, Mass. USA) 2012-11-19 17:30: Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open (Dr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2012-11-20 13:00: The combinatorial structure underlying a beta processes is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemes (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-20 14:30: Dimension reduction based on sliced inverse regression (SIR): a look at the special case when n ‹p (Jérôme Saracco, Bordeaux Institute of Technology & Bordeaux Institute of Mathematics (Probability and Statistics team)) 2012-11-20 18:30: 'Travelling Salesman' - first UK screening (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-11-21 19:00: The RNAi therapeutics roller coaster (Mr Dirk Haussecker (Author of the RNAi Therapeutics blog)) 2012-11-22 11:15: Marwa's summer school experience (Marwa Mahmoud (University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-22 14:00: Applying Pervasive Positioning for Crowd Behavior Recognition and Eco-Feedback (Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard (Aarhus University)) 2012-11-22 14:30: Mechanisms of Transcriptional Repression during Development. (Dr Barbara Jennings from the Transcriptional Regulation Group, UCL Cancer Institute ) 2012-11-22 14:30: Spectral Clustering (Mr Roger Grosse (MIT); Alex Matthews) 2012-11-22 16:00: Fast run-time type checking for whole programs (Stephen Kell (University of Lugano)) 2012-11-22 16:00: An as-if model of economic decision making (Dr Ian Krajbich. Department of Economics, University of Zurich ) 2012-11-22 19:00: Summer Studentships Event (Former Summer Students & Careers Advisor) 2012-11-23 13:15: Functional nuclear organization of the genome: from cell populations to single cell analyses (Peter Fraser, Babraham Institute) 2012-11-23 14:00: How One Cell Eats Another - Physical Principles in Phagocytosis (Dr Robert Endres, University College London, UK) 2012-11-23 14:00: High resolution electron microscopy of superalloys (Dr. Catherine Rae, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) 2012-11-23 14:00: Making Geo-Replicated Systems Fast as Possible, Consistent when Necessary (Allen Clement (MPI)) 2012-11-23 14:00: Compressed Sensing in Cancer Biology? (A Work in Progress) (Prof. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas) 2012-11-23 16:00: CANCELLED: Forecast skill and predictability of observed Atlantic sea surface temperatures (Laure Zanna (Oxford)) 2012-11-26 11:00: Computing and Autism: How a real-world challenge drives a computing research agenda (Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech) 2012-11-26 14:00: Automating Separation Logic Reasoning (Juan Antonio Navarro Pérez, UCL) 2012-11-26 19:00: The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles (Professor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence) 2012-11-27 14:30: Generating partially synthetic data to protect confidentiality in survey microdata (Robin Mitra, University of Southampton) 2012-11-27 14:30: Spectral Edge: Making the Invisible Visible (Graham Finlayson, UEA) 2012-11-28 14:00: Practical progress and research challenges in wireless technology. (Dr Antony Rix, Senior Consultant, TTP ) 2012-11-28 14:00: Handling Multitude of Nash Equilibria in Voting Games (Omer Lev, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2012-11-28 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Michaelmas IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-11-29 11:15: ASC-Inclusion (Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge), Ian Davies (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)) 2012-11-29 14:00: Information theoretic view on Privacy preservation (Kavé Salamatian (University of Savoie)) 2012-11-29 14:30: Bayesian and Gradient Reinforcement Learning (Yanyue (University of Cambridge); Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge); ) 2012-11-30 12:00: Machine translation from the user's perspective: what is it good for? (Lucia Specia, University of Sheffield) 2012-11-30 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Julie MacPherson, University of Warwick, UK) 2012-11-30 16:00: The impact of fluid motion on microbial ecology: phytoplankton patchiness and bacterial biofilm development in porous media (Mack Durham (Oxford)) 2012-12-04 10:30: Scaling wireless services (Wenjun Hu, Microsoft Research Asia) 2012-12-04 14:00: From motion capture of interacting hands to video based rendering. (Luca Ballan, Institute of Visual Computing in ETH Zurich) 2012-12-06 11:00: LCD-Net: Lowest Cost Denominator Networking - Enabling donated lunches in the Internet (Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge)) 2012-12-06 11:15: Joint Contour Nets: Theory & Applications (Hamish Carr (University of Leeds)) 2012-12-06 14:00: Industrial Applications of Low Frequency Ultrasound (Phil Catton (University of Cambridge)) 2012-12-06 14:30: NIPS Recap (Speaker to be confirmed) 2012-12-06 19:30: A Scientific Wine Tasting with Dr James Hutchinson (RSC) (Dr James Hutchinson (RSC)) 2012-12-07 14:00: Pre CDC talk (Richard Pates, David Hayden and Panos Brezas from Control Group, Engineering Department) 2012-12-10 16:00: Towards the Profiling of Twitter Users for Topic-Based Filtering + Collaborative Filtering For Recommendation (Sandra Garcia Esparza + Steven Bourke (University College Dublin)) 2012-12-10 17:00: Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history. (Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany) 2012-12-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Luigi Acerbi) 2012-12-12 16:30: Statistics Clinic Winter 2012 (Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge) 2012-12-13 17:00: Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history (Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany) 2012-12-14 15:00: Dynamic flow algorithms for real-time evacuation guidance (Ken Brown (University College Cork)) 2012-12-15 15:00: Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse (Dr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist) 2012-12-17 11:00: Dynamic Fair Division of Multiple Resources (Nisarg Shah, CMU) 2013-01-07 14:00: Predictive control of mechatronic systems (Mr Abhishek Dutta, PhD student at University of Gent, Belgium) 2013-01-10 12:00: What you get is not only what you see! A distributional analysis of semantic features from congenital blind subjects (Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa) 2013-01-10 14:00: Value of Sensing (Professor Duncan McFarlane (University of Cambridge)) 2013-01-10 14:30: Perspectives on Next Generation DNA Sequencing. (Dr Harold Swerdlow from Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ) 2013-01-11 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW (Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr) 2013-01-16 13:00: Internetworking with DTN (Vassilis Tsaoussidis (DUTH) ) 2013-01-16 14:00: Evolution of post-translational networks (Dr. Pedro Beltrao, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute) 2013-01-17 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3) (Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2013-01-17 14:30: NIPS Recap (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-01-17 16:00: The human endometrium - dynamics and disorders (Professor Philippa Saunders. University of Ediburgh. ) 2013-01-18 13:15: Dissecting the role of stem cells in tissue development and maturation (Kim Jensen, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-01-18 14:00: Leverhulme Lecture: The translocation of polymers across nanometer sized pores in membranes (Prof Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern University)) 2013-01-18 14:00: Predictive control of mechatronic systems (Abhishek Dutta, PhD student, Ghent University) 2013-01-18 16:00: An optimization framework for adaptive PDE solutions applied to fluid dynamics (David Darmofal (MIT)) 2013-01-18 17:30: Foresight in Ancient Civilisations (Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge) 2013-01-21 14:00: New paradigms in complex networks science: time dependence, networks of networks, spatial features, multiplexity (Albert Diaz-Guilera (University of Barcelona)) 2013-01-21 16:30: Inhibition and Odour discrimination in mice (Andreas Schaefer Heidelberg) 2013-01-21 19:00: Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost? (Professor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change) 2013-01-22 14:30: Causal inference and stratified medicine: an illustration of trial designs incorporating biomarker information for mechanisms evaluation (Richard Emsley, University of Manchester) 2013-01-22 15:00: The charge of the light cyber brigade? (Särelä Mikko (Aalto University)) 2013-01-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2013-01-22 19:30: Climate Science in the Media: could it be done better, and how much does it matter? (Dr. Rosie Robison, Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.) 2013-01-23 13:00: Not just Pi in the sky: low-tech solutions for social innovation (Catalyst Team (University of Lancaster)) 2013-01-23 14:00: Integration of functional genomics and pathway information to elucidate deregulation of signal transduction and drugs' mode of action (Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute) 2013-01-23 16:00: “The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy” (Prof Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics) 2013-01-23 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent I (Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge) 2013-01-24 14:30: Hox Control of a Drosophila Feeding Circuit. (Professor Dr Ingrid Lohmann from The Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg ) 2013-01-24 15:00: Advanced Sampling (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge); Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT)) 2013-01-24 16:00: Pituitary hypoplasia and decreased GnRH neurogenesis in Sox2-deficient Mice (Dr. Juan Pedro Martinez-Barbera. UCL Institute of Child Health) 2013-01-24 19:00: Ethical issues in genomic research and practice: the Sanger Institute Deciphering Developmental Disorders project as a case study (Michael Parker [Ethox Center, Oxford] & Caroline Wright [Sanger Center, Cambridge]) 2013-01-25 13:15: Spindle orientation and cell division in Drosophila epithelial cells (Dan Bergstrahl, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2013-01-25 14:00: Programming Cells: Computing with DNA (Dr. Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research ) 2013-01-25 14:00: Superconducting Materials for Engineering Applications (Dr J Durrell, CUED) 2013-01-25 14:00: Molecular bionics: copying Nature to control Nature (Prof Beppe Battaglia (University of Sheffield)) 2013-01-25 16:00: Topological Jumps in Fluid Mechanics (Keith Moffatt (Damtp)) 2013-01-25 17:30: Foresight in Journalism (Ms Bridget Kendall, BBC) 2013-01-28 16:00: Circulating tumour DNA as a biomarker of genetics alterations in cancer (Florent Mouliere (IRCM U896 Inserm, Montpellier, France)) 2013-01-28 16:30: Memory codes and their transformation in bee brain (Randolf Menzel, Frieie University of Berlin) 2013-01-28 17:30: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful (Professor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre) 2013-01-30 11:00: Structural Expectation Propagation (SEP): Bayesian structure learning for networks with latent variables (Nevena Lazic (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2013-01-30 13:00: The Role of Initial Experience in the Design of Inclusive User Interfaces (Patrick K. A. Wollner and Tanya Goldhaber (University of Cambridge)) 2013-01-30 14:00: Ecological niche modeling and infectious disease ( Dr. Daniel Henk, University of Bath) 2013-01-30 16:00: Quantification and modeling of spindle positioning and size regulation in the C. elegans embryo (Dr. Akatsuki Kimura, National Institute of Genetics, Japan ) 2013-01-30 16:45: The mitotic checkpoint - a structural perspective. (Dr. Victor Bolanos Garcia, Oxford Brookes University, UK ) 2013-01-30 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger (Baroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue) 2013-01-30 19:00: The day within: circadian clock genes, cells and circuits (Dr Michael Hastings, FRS [MRC LMB, Cambridge]) 2013-01-30 19:30: Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer (Haley Frend, Department of Pathology) 2013-01-31 11:15: Systems Modelling and Simulation: ARENA® vs. SIMIO® With Examples (Alexander Komashie (EDC, University of Cambridge)) 2013-01-31 14:30: Cell specification in the mouse blastocyst inner cell mass: interplay between Nanog, Gata6 and the Fgf signalling pathway. (Dr Claire Chazaud from Laboratoire GReD, France ) 2013-01-31 15:00: Discrete Optimization (Colorado Reed (University of Cambridge)) 2013-01-31 19:00: Evolution of Biological Complexity (Raymond Goldstein [Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Cambridge]) 2013-02-01 10:00: Stratosphere: Massively parallel dataflow programming (Kostas Tzoumas, Technical University of Berlin) 2013-02-01 13:15: Transcriptional Control of Cell Fate Choice in Blood Stem Cells (Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-01 14:00: Observations of a mathematician running a wet-lab: decades of pharmacology, MICs, efflux pumps, drug interactions and antibiotic resistance in the context of models and genomics (Prof Robert Beardmore (Exeter University)) 2013-02-01 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2013-02-01 14:30: Heart valve tissue engineering (Professor Frank Baaijens, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2013-02-01 16:00: Elastocapillary flows (Camille Duprat (ESPCI)) 2013-02-01 17:30: Foresight and Fiction (Robert J Sawyer, Author) 2013-02-04 16:00: Evolution of cellular networks: from interactions to phenotypes (Pedro Beltrao (EMBL-EBI)) 2013-02-04 16:30: Neuropharmacology of visual attention in visual cortex (Alex Thiele University of Newcastle) 2013-02-04 19:00: The Shift in the Balance of Economic and Financial Power: what does it really mean? (Dr. Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist and Group Head of Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank) 2013-02-05 09:00: Land use / land cover change and malaria risk in the Amazon region (Denis Valle, Levine Science Research Center (LSRC)) 2013-02-05 14:30: Conditional Density Estimation through Enriched Dirichlet Process Mixture Models (Sara Wade, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sina Tootoonian, CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge) 2013-02-06 09:00: How do we model global plant physiology? A case study of leaf phenology (Silvia Caldararu, University of Edinburgh) 2013-02-06 11:00: Detecting Sybils without Graphs (Ben Zhao, University of California) 2013-02-06 13:00: Unikernels: Library Operating Systems for the Cloud (Anil Madhavapeddy (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-06 14:00: Genome-wide approaches to study alternative splicing using RNA-seq data (Dr. Kathi Zarnack, London Research Institute and EMBL-EBI) 2013-02-06 14:00: MPhil in Computational Biology Open Afternoon (various) 2013-02-06 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent II (Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-06 19:00: What's a brain for? A moving story (Dr Daniel Wolpert, FRS [CBL, Cambridge]) 2013-02-07 10:00: Automated Error Diagnosis Using Abductive Inference (Thomas Dillig, College of William and Mary, Virginia) 2013-02-07 11:15: Perception of image-based rendering (Christian Richardt (Inria Sophia Antipolis)) 2013-02-07 14:00: Carbon Emission - A general approach to road freight transportation (Ivian Casali Duarte (University of Espirito Santo, Brazil)) 2013-02-07 15:00: RCC Planning (Colorado Reed (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-07 16:00: The microvasculature - an early marker/driver of CVD risk across the life-course (Professor Geraldine Clough. University of Southampton. ) 2013-02-07 17:15: Space Exploration: Is Manned Space Travel Worth The Cost? (Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)) 2013-02-08 13:15: Cytoplasmic streaming in the female germline and stem cell fate in the male germline of Drosophila (Isabel Palacios, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-08 14:00: Elasticity and (dis)orders in networks and cellular patterns (Dr Marc Durand, Université Paris Diderot) 2013-02-08 14:00: Euler's elasticas and their applications to DNA, nucleosomes and chromatin fibers (Prof Helmut Schiessel (Leiden)) 2013-02-08 16:00: The stability of buoyancy-driven fluid filled cracks (Richard Craster (Imperial)) 2013-02-08 17:30: Foresight in Scientific Method (Professor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-11 09:00: Modelling road networks in the Amazon (Sadia Ahmed, Imperial College London) 2013-02-11 16:30: Circuit mechanisms of oscillations and representation of space in the entorhinal cortex (Matt Nolan, University of Edinburgh) 2013-02-11 17:30: Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland (Dr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-13 13:00: Productive parallel programming with Unified Parallel C (Montse FARRERAS (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)) 2013-02-13 14:00: Methodological Challenges in the Pursuit of the Tree of Life (Dr. Christophe Dessimoz, EMBL-EBI) 2013-02-13 19:00: Nuclear reprogramming (Sir John Gurdon, FRS [Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge]) 2013-02-14 11:15: Interactive Data Mining - Towards Mixed Initiative Approaches (Martin Spott, BT Research and Innovation) 2013-02-14 14:30: Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Fate (Professor Margaret Buckingham from Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, Paris) 2013-02-14 16:00: Food for thought: nutrients and neural stem cells in Drosophila (Dr Alex Gould. MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London.) 2013-02-15 12:00: Linguistic Indicators for Estimating the Quality of Machine Translations (Mariano Felice, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-15 13:15: Coping with life changing events: Stem cells, regeneration, and plasticity (Robin Lovell-Badge, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London) 2013-02-15 14:00: Nano-optics of complex media (R. Sapienza, King's College London) 2013-02-15 14:30: Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models (Professor René de Borst, University of Glasgow) 2013-02-15 14:30: Multiscale mechanics and cohesive-surface models (Professor René de Borst, University of Glasgow) 2013-02-15 16:00: Capillary interaction between anisotropic colloids at fluid-fluid interfaces (Lorenzo Botto (Imperial)) 2013-02-15 17:30: Foresight in Music (Professor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-18 14:00: Daniel’s Adventures in Computer Vision Land (Daniel Freedman, Microsoft Research – Advanced Technology Labs Israel) 2013-02-18 16:00: Metabolic regulation of the stress response and the cancer cell's Warburg effect (Markus Ralser (University of Cambridge, Dept of Biochemistry)) 2013-02-18 16:30: On the Evolution of Reward Signals: A Computational Just-So Story (Andy Barto, University of Massachusetts) 2013-02-18 19:00: Graphene Future Emerging Technology (Professor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering) 2013-02-19 14:00: New probabilistic methods for inference of natural selection on regulatory sequences in the human genome (Adam Siepel, Cornell University) 2013-02-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jonathan O'Keeffe ) 2013-02-20 13:00: Analysing co-installability of software components (Roberto Di Cosmo (IRILL)) 2013-02-20 14:00: Machine learning approaches to predicting protein-ligand binding (Dr. Pedro J. Ballester, MRC Methodology Research Fellow and EMBL-EBI) 2013-02-20 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent III (Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-20 19:00: The Pharma Industry & the Opportunity for Precision Medicine (Ruth McKernan [VP & CSO of Pfizer Neusentis, MRC Councillor]) 2013-02-21 11:15: Technologies for learning and wellbeing (Rafael A. Calvo) 2013-02-21 14:30: How to maintain a stable genome: A Passenger Perspective. (Dr Susanne Lens from University Medical Centre Utrecht) 2013-02-21 15:00: Conditional Density Estimation (Sara Wade ( Bocconi University)) 2013-02-21 16:00: Depolarizing GABA actions in development and disease: back to the future (Professor Kai Kaila. Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki. ) 2013-02-22 11:00: Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes Processes (Charles Blundell (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2013-02-22 12:00: Distributional Semantics and Kernels (Tamara Polajnar, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-22 13:15: Using bacterial pathogens to explore immunity and development in the nematode C. elegans (Jonathan Hodgkin, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford) 2013-02-22 14:00: Materials and Sustainable Technology (Professor M F Ashby CUED Emeritus) 2013-02-22 14:00: Polymer and hybrid nanostructures for applications in organic solar cells investigated with advanced x-ray techniques (Prof. Peter Müller-Buschbaum (Technische Universität München )) 2013-02-22 16:00: Computing steady vortex flows of prescribed topology (Paulo Luzzatto-Fegiz (Damtp)) 2013-02-22 17:30: Foreseeing Space Weather (Dr Jim Wild, Lancaster University) 2013-02-25 16:30: Tools for the Brain: Using neural interfaces to restore motor function (Andrew Jackson, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Insitute of Neuroscience) 2013-02-25 17:30: A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy (Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge) 2013-02-27 11:30: Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxes (Tamara Broderick (UC Berkeley)) 2013-02-27 13:00: METIS: Exploring mobile phone sensing offloading for efficiently supporting social sensing applications (Kiran Rachuri (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-27 14:00: Reasoning About Client Side Web Programs (Gareth Smith, Imperial College London) 2013-02-27 14:00: Genome sequencing of transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils (Elizabeth Murchison (Sanger) ) 2013-02-28 11:15: Isogeometric analysis for subdivision solids (Pieter Barendrecht, TU Eindoven) 2013-02-28 14:00: Real Time Real Estate Management for Smart Buildings (Barry O'Brien (ARUP)) 2013-02-28 14:15: Digitisation of modern and traditional dances using motion capture technology (Dr Andreas Aristidou, Graphics and Virtual Reality Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus) 2013-02-28 14:30: Linking the mitotic spindle to the plasma membrane during cytokinesis. (Dr. Mark Petronczki from Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories ) 2013-02-28 15:00: Fragmentation Coagulation (Hong Ge (University of Cambridge)) 2013-02-28 16:00: Mechanisms underlying the developmental origins of health and disease (Dr Sue Ozanne) 2013-03-01 10:30: Haplotype sharing and time to common ancestor: resolving various genetics problems including the studies of rare variants and disease susceptibility variants (Dr Augustine Kong, deCODE genetics) 2013-03-01 12:00: Natural Language Generation as Planning under Uncertainty for Statistical Interactive Systems (Verena Rieser, Heriot Watt University) 2013-03-01 13:15: Chromatin organisation in embryonic stem cells (Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2013-03-01 14:00: Fibre Network Materials : Architecture, Mechanics and in vitro Cell Responses (Dr Athena Markaki, CUED) 2013-03-01 14:00: Extreme Mechanics of Marginal Matter (Martin van Hecke, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, University of Leiden) 2013-03-01 16:00: The granular silo as a visco-plastic flow (or why sandglasses do not flow like water-clocks) (Lydie Staron (CNRS/Bristol)) 2013-03-01 17:30: Foresight and Self-Control (Professor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University) 2013-03-04 16:00: The logic and variation in genomic regulatory networks (Mikhail Spivakov (Babraham Institute)) 2013-03-04 19:00: CSAR Book Evening (Dr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton) 2013-03-06 12:00: Two Approaches to Grammar Induction: From Plain Text to Semantic Supervision (Omri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ) 2013-03-06 13:00: Multipath? What multipath? Positioning and communication using low frequency magneto-induction (Andrew Markham (University of Oxford)) 2013-03-06 14:00: Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data (Dr. Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry) 2013-03-06 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent IV (Statistics Clinic Team, University of Cambridge) 2013-03-06 17:30: Why "shaken but not stirred"? (Professor Richard Zare, Stanford University) 2013-03-07 11:15: Short Talks (Flora Ponjou-Tasse) 2013-03-07 14:30: Molecular mechanisms that mediate the adaptation to hypoxia in Drosophila. (Professor Pablo Wappner from Instituto Leloir, Argentina ) 2013-03-07 15:00: Machine Learning in Speech Recognition (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-03-07 16:00: Some assembly required: In vitro reconstitution of cellular structures (Professor Dan Fletcher. University of California Berkeley. ) 2013-03-08 11:00: Using Context and Insight for the Analysis of LittleData? (Philipp Moritz (U Cambridge)) 2013-03-08 16:00: Stochastic parametrization of ocean mesoscale eddies (Laure Zanna (Oxford)) 2013-03-08 17:30: Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia (Professor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley) 2013-03-11 10:00: Achieving High Data Rates in Distributed MIMO Systems (Horia Vlad Balan, USC) 2013-03-11 11:30: An application of HDP And IBP for stream-based action recognition and high dimensional data (Ava Bargi : University of Technology, Sydney) 2013-03-11 14:00: Warped Mixture Models for Meaningful Clustering and Bayesian Manifold Learning (David Duvenaud, University of Cambridge) 2013-03-11 16:30: Imaging Tools To Reverse Engineer The Brain (Winfried Denk. Director of Max Planck Institute for Medical Research) 2013-03-11 17:30: Low Carbon Road Freight Transport (Professor David Cebon, Department of Engineering) 2013-03-12 14:30: Statistical inference of virus phylodynamics (Oliver Ratmann, Imperial College London) 2013-03-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2013-03-12 19:30: Making a difference across the globe (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian) 2013-03-13 19:00: A new approach to small-molecule drug development (Prof. Chris Abell [Department of Chemistry, Cambridge]) 2013-03-14 10:00: Optimal Payments in Dominant-Strategy Mechanisms (Victor Naraditskiy, University of Southampton) 2013-03-14 11:15: Part II Student Presentations (Part II Students) 2013-03-14 14:30: Tips at the Edge: Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics at the Cell Cortex. (Professor Dr Anna Akhmanova from Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, Utrech University ) 2013-03-14 15:00: Probabilistic Programming (James Lloyd (University of Cambridge)) 2013-03-14 18:30: 'Travelling Salesman' - film screening (plus.maths.org/PvsNP) 2013-03-14 19:00: Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins (Sarah Teichmann [MRC LMB, Cambridge]) 2013-03-15 12:00: Unsupervised Domain Tuning to Improve Word Sense Disambiguation (Judita Preiss, University of Sheffield) 2013-03-15 14:00: Peeling adhesive tape: A case study for understanding the effective properties of heterogenous materials (Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology) 2013-03-15 14:00: Peeling adhesive tape: A case study for understanding the effective properties of heterogenous materials (Professor Kaushik Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology) 2013-03-15 16:00: Biochemical hydrodynamics of protein solutions with high pressure relaxation kinetics (Gregory Vilensky (UCL)) 2013-03-18 14:30: University Lectureship in Computational Neuroscience candidate talks (Claudia Clopath (Columbia), Yan Karklin (NYU), Jakob Macke (MPI Tuebingen), Kanaka Rajan (Princeton), Henning Sprekeler (Humboldt)) 2013-03-18 16:00: Inferring causal mediators from omics data in the context of genetic and environmental variations (Oliver Stegle (EBI)) 2013-03-19 14:00: Semantics\sqcap Scalability\models\bot? Are Semantics and Scalability Incompatible? (Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford) 2013-03-19 14:00: The Future of Construction and Infrastructure Information: BIM, the Death of the Document, the Importance of Information Retrieval and Future-proofing in Design (Peter Demian (Loughborough University)) 2013-03-20 10:00: Privacy and Integrity of Remote Storage and Computation (Olga Ohrimenko, Brown University) 2013-03-20 11:00: Mechanism design: dealing with interdependencies among agents. (Sofia Ceppi, Politecnico di Milano) 2013-03-20 20:00: Our Fluid Earth (Professor Dan McKenzie) 2013-03-21 10:00: Trust and Mistrust on the Internet (Pranav Dandekar, Stanford University) 2013-03-21 10:30: "Biased excitable networks: how cells direct motion in response to gradients (a control perspective)" (Professor Pablo Iglesias, John Hopkins/Max Planck Dresden) 2013-03-21 15:00: Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (Rowan McAllister & Karolina Dziugaite) 2013-03-22 10:00: Wireless Networking Using Smart Radios (Aveek Dutta, University of Colorado) 2013-03-22 12:00: How to Give a Technical Presentation in Computer Science (Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge) 2013-03-22 18:00: Behavioural Economics and Public Policy (Professor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School) 2013-03-23 14:00: Mathematics and Smallpox (Professor Tom Körner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics) 2013-03-25 11:00: Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family (James Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience) 2013-03-26 10:00: Syntactic Foundations for Machine Learning (Sooraj Bhat, Georgia Institute of Technology) 2013-03-26 11:00: Proving Termination of Heap-Manipulating Java Programs (Marc Brockschmidt, RWTH Aachen) 2013-03-26 14:00: Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family (James Hensman, University of Sheffield) 2013-03-27 10:00: Hypervisor Scheduler Enhancement Using OS-Hardware Interactions (Hwanju Kim, KAIST) 2013-03-27 13:00: Rethinking the Stack for Distributed Runtime Systems (Tim Haris (Oracle Labs) ) 2013-03-27 14:00: Austerity in MCM - Land : Cutting the computational Budget (Max Welling, University of Amsterdam) 2013-03-28 10:00: CRASH/SAFE: Clean-slate Co-design of a Secure Host Architecture (Catalin Hritcu, University of Pennsylvania ) 2013-03-28 11:00: Stressing Out Cells: flow-induced migration of endothelial cells and cell adhesion on hydrogels (Prof Gerry Fuller, University of Stanford) 2013-03-28 14:00: The impact of uncertainty on cost for Industrial Product-Service Systems (Dr. John Ahmet Erkoyuncu (Cranfield University)) 2013-03-28 15:00: An Introduction to Sum Product Networks (José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge)) 2013-03-28 15:00: Toward an Atlas of the Physical Internet (Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison)) 2013-04-02 10:00: Towards Algebra-Oriented Programming (Bruno Oliveira, National University of Singapore) 2013-04-02 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge)) 2013-04-03 10:00: Programming The Parallelism Zoo (Geoffrey Mainland (Microsoft Research)) 2013-04-03 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter Break (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-04-05 10:00: Graph-Based Reasoning in Separation Logic for Fun and Profit (Christoph Haase, LSV at ENS Cachan) 2013-04-08 11:00: Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State Segmentation (Will Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB)) 2013-04-08 14:00: Signal Identification for Rare and Weak Features: Higher Criticism or False Discovery Rates (Prof. Korbinian Strimmer, University of Leipzig) 2013-04-09 10:00: Static Verification for Web Scripting Languages (Ravi Chugh, UC San Diego) 2013-04-10 10:00: The Ramifications of Sharing in Data Structures (Jules Villard, University College London) 2013-04-10 10:00: MSR-Lecture: Gaussian Processes for Pattern Discovery, Speaker: Andrew Wilson (Andrew Wilson, Cambridge Universtiy) 2013-04-10 13:00: Omega: flexible, scalable schedulers for large compute clusters (Malte Schwarzkopf (University of Cambridge)) 2013-04-11 09:45: Understanding and Improving Device Access Complexity (Asim Kadav, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 2013-04-11 10:00: Intelligent Location-Privacy Preserving Mechanisms (Reza Shokri, EPFL ) 2013-04-11 11:00: Big Data Analytics with All-or-Nothing Parallel Jobs (Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, University of California) 2013-04-11 11:15: From Bounded to Unbounded Proofs of Correctness (Aws Albarghouthi, University of Toronto) 2013-04-11 15:00: Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric Statistics (Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge)) 2013-04-12 14:00: Chemotaxome – A new member with complex biological entities in systems biology. (Kohidai, Laszlo MD, PhD, Med.Habil. Cell Biology, Assoc. Professor Chemotaxis Research Group – SRI Core Facility Department of Genetics, Cell- & Immunobiology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary) 2013-04-15 11:00: Bayesian nonparametric methods for non-exchangeable data (Nick Foti (Dartmouth College)) 2013-04-15 11:15: Understanding and Improving the Efficiency of Failure Resilience for Big Data Frameworks (Florin Dinu, Rice University) 2013-04-15 13:00: Cryptoforma: Computer-Aided Cryptographic proofs with EasyCrypt (Gilles Barthe) 2013-04-16 09:00: Theory and Practice of Mix-Nets (Douglas Wikström, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan) 2013-04-16 13:00: Reconstruction and Applications of Collective Storylines from Web Photo Collections (Gunhee Kim, Carnegie Mellon University) 2013-04-16 15:00: Modular reasoning for modular concurrency (Aaron Turon, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) 2013-04-16 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2013-04-17 10:00: Can we leverage a Software Defined Networking (SDN) approach on Video streaming to benefit both the Network and its Users? (Panagiotis Georgopoulos (Lancaster)) 2013-04-18 10:00: On the efficient implementation of large round-robin arbiters (Emanuel Savin (Intel)) 2013-04-18 11:00: Sensor fusion and parameter inference in nonlinear dynamical systems (Thomas B. Schön, Associate Professor, Linköping University) 2013-04-18 14:00: Cluster management at Google (John Wilkes (Google)) 2013-04-18 15:00: Sparsity: Beyond L1 (Amar Shah (University of Cambridge)) 2013-04-18 16:00: Open Access: common good or uncommon danger? (Stephen Curry (Imperial Collge London)) 2013-04-22 16:30: The self-tuning neuron- homeostatic plasticity in visualcortical circuitry (Gina Turrigiano. Brandeis University, Massachusetts) 2013-04-23 14:00: Scalable network modelling for personalized medicine (Sach Mukherjee, Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI)) 2013-04-24 09:00: The Ninth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute (various speakers) 2013-04-24 12:00: Demixing scents: Sampling-based inference in olfaction. (Agnieszka Grabska Barwinska, The Gatsby Unit, UCL) 2013-04-24 14:30: Sequence-based discovery of transcriptional targets. (Dr Stein Aerts, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven University) 2013-04-24 15:00: Is the brain in a critical state? (Peter Latham ( Gatsby, UCL)) 2013-04-24 18:00: The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants (Dr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences) 2013-04-24 18:30: The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore? (Dr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology) 2013-04-25 11:15: Cyber-physical Programming: Livecoding beyond the audiovisual (Henry Gardner and Andrew Sorensen) 2013-04-25 15:00: Information and Communications Technology for Development: Current Trajectories (Melissa Densmore (MSR Bangalore)) 2013-04-25 16:00: Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty (Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, Cambridge)) 2013-04-25 17:15: Secrets behind the Cambridge Phenomenon: Good fortune or outstanding strategy? (Prof. Sir John Bell, Harriet Fear, Chris Green and Derek Jones) 2013-04-25 18:00: Redefining Equality (Peter Kellner, President YouGov) 2013-04-25 18:30: Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED (Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden) 2013-04-26 13:15: Regulation of neural and intestinal stem cell differentiation (Axel Behrens, CR-UK London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London) 2013-04-26 14:00: Plug-and-Play Synthesis and Computation of Predictive Controllers (Dr. Colin Jones, Assistant Professor, Automatic Control Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)) 2013-04-26 14:00: Multiscale and multiphysics modelling in wood (Dr Karin de Borst , University of Glasgow) 2013-04-26 14:00: Patchy colloids: a simple model for complex fluids (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-04-26 16:00: Effective constitutive relations and variational principles for waves in composites (John Willis (Damtp)) 2013-04-29 11:00: Large sample results for tiny significance levels (Professor Kenneth Rice, University of Washington) 2013-04-29 16:00: Mapping tumor heterogeneity and developmental trajectories using 40 markers at single cell resolution: (Dana Pe'er (Columbia University, NYC)) 2013-04-29 17:30: MRC Centenary Lecture: Failings in hierarchies of evidence for controversial health-policy decisions (Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, of NICE) 2013-04-29 19:00: Volcanology Applied to Emergencies (Professor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol) 2013-04-30 10:00: Language-Integrated Quantum Operations: A Software Architecture for Quantum Computing (Dave Wecker, Microsoft Research, Redmond) 2013-04-30 11:00: Approaches to statistical modeling of network data (Maxim Nazarov (Bocconi University)) 2013-04-30 14:00: Building Better Questionnaires with Probabilistic Modelling (Ricardo Silva, UCL) 2013-04-30 14:30: Causal mediation analysis with multiple mediators (Rhian Daniel, LSHTM) 2013-04-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge)) 2013-05-01 13:00: Chatty Tenants and the Cloud Network Sharing Problem (Hitesh Ballani (MSR Cambridge)) 2013-05-01 15:00: Deep Gaussian Processes (Prof. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield)) 2013-05-01 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-05-02 11:15: Enhanced Texture-Based Terrain Synthesis on Graphics Hardware (Flora Tasse) 2013-05-02 14:00: Distributed intelligence in warehouse management: A case study (James Hyde (SixWorks Ltd)) 2013-05-02 16:00: Sheep Models of Human Neurodegenerative Disease. How, where and why? (Prof Jenny Morton. PDN, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-02 16:00: Life, death and resurrection in the Early Carboniferous (Jenny Clack (Department of Zoology, Cambridge)) 2013-05-03 10:00: MSR-Lecture: Generative Models of Images of Objects (Ali Eslami, University of Edinburgh) 2013-05-03 13:15: A fine balance: Self-renewal and differentiation of single stem cells amidst tumour heterogeneity (David Kent, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-03 14:00: Magnesium alloys microstructures: coupling experiments and simulations (Dr Antoine Jerusalem, University of Oxford) 2013-05-03 14:00: Mesenchymal stem cell response to nanotopographical features (Matthew Dalby (Univ Glasgow)) 2013-05-03 16:00: The interplay of waves and turbulence (Peter Davidson (Engineering, Cambridge)) 2013-05-07 15:00: Moana: A Case for a Global Information Network (Yan Shvartzshnaider (University of Sydney , NICTA)) 2013-05-07 17:15: The Role of Evidence in Policy (David Nutt, Barbara Sahakian and Mark Stokes) 2013-05-09 11:15: The Larch Environment: Python Programs as Visual Interactive Documents (Geoffrey French) 2013-05-09 14:00: First Year PhD DIAL Talk (Torben Jess and JiaQiang Wang) 2013-05-09 14:30: Tracking transmission and evolution of bacterial pathogens with high-throughput genomics. (Dr Julian Parkhill, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ) 2013-05-09 16:00: Matrix Concentration Inequalities via the Method of Exchangeable Pairs (Professor Michael I Jordan (UC Berkeley)) 2013-05-09 19:00: Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry (Prof Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge) 2013-05-10 12:00: Zipf's law and the grammar of languages: A (potential) cross-linguistic measure of syntheticity (Christian Bentz, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-10 13:15: Nutrient sensing in the central brain of Drosophila larvae controls feeding behavior (Pierre Léopold, Institute of Biology Valrose, University of Nice, France) 2013-05-10 14:00: Unified study of glass and jamming rheology in soft particle systems (Peter Sollich, Department of Mathematics, King's College London) 2013-05-10 14:00: Stress Generation in the Storage Particles of Lithium-Ion Batteries (Professor Robert McMeeking, University of California Santa Barbara) 2013-05-10 14:00: Research Challenges in Applying Control to Wheel-Rail Contact Problems (Professor T X Mei, Chair in Control and Mechatronics, University of Salford) 2013-05-10 16:00: Cytoplasmic streaming from microfilament self-organisation (Francis Woodhouse (Damtp)) 2013-05-13 16:00: Genome-wide association studies: Lessons from studying a large clinical cohort (Sven Bergmann (Lausanne)) 2013-05-13 16:00: The Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley,) 2013-05-13 19:00: Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology (Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-14 14:30: Semi Markov models under panel observation (Andrew Titman, University of Lancaster) 2013-05-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2013-05-15 13:00: An Objective Measure of Network Resilience (Fletcher D Wicker (Aerospace)) 2013-05-15 14:00: Electric field induced ferromagnetic phase transition in semiconductors and metals (Dr Daichi Chiba, Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo ) 2013-05-15 16:00: Energy Efficient Electronics; Searching for the milli-Volt Switch (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley ) 2013-05-15 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-05-16 10:00: Dendritic computation in pyramidal neurons. 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PDN, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-16 16:00: Museums and Science (Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London)) 2013-05-17 11:00: SPOC: GPGPU Programming with OCaml (Mathias Bourgoin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6) ) 2013-05-17 12:00: Improved Information Structure Analysis of Scientific Documents Through Discourse and Lexical Constraints (Yufan Guo, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-17 13:15: Organ morphogenesis: Cell movement and communication in liver development (Elke Ober, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London) 2013-05-17 14:00: Artificial Cells in Picoliter Droplets (Prof Wilhelm Huck (Nijmegen - Radboud Universiteit)) 2013-05-17 14:00: Engineering and medicine: Opportunities in type 1 diabetes (Dr. Roman Hovorka, Director of Research, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories) 2013-05-17 14:00: Climb-enabled discrete dislocation plasticity (Professor Vikram Deshpande, CUED) 2013-05-17 16:00: Seeing quantum mechanics by the naked eye in quantum fluids of light (Natasha Berloff (Damtp)) 2013-05-17 16:00: The Two Conflicting Narratives of Metal-Optics; aka Plasmonics (Professor Eli Yablonovitch of UC Berkeley) 2013-05-20 16:00: Petri nets as semi-quantitative modeling method to explore systems behavior of disease-related pathways (Ina Koch (Frankfurt University)) 2013-05-21 15:00: Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions (Mirco Musolesi (University of Birmingham)) 2013-05-22 10:20: Google's Approach to Building Relationships with Universities: Presentation and Talk by Dr David J Harper (Dr David J Harper ) 2013-05-22 13:00: The neighbourhood game (Panayotis Antoniadis (ETH)) 2013-05-22 17:30: MRC Centenary Lecture: Numbers are weapons: a self defence guide (Tim Harford, of More or Less) 2013-05-23 11:15: Subdivision Curves and Surfaces with (Semi-)Sharp Creases (Jiri Kosinka) 2013-05-23 14:30: Epigenetic regulation of tissue growth in Drosophila. (Dr Anne Kathrin Classen, LMU Munich ) 2013-05-23 15:00: Adaptive Hamiltonian-based MCMC samplers (Shakir Mohamed ) 2013-05-23 16:00: Actin cortex mechanics in animal cell morphogenesis (Prof Ewa Paluch. MRC LMCB, University College London) 2013-05-23 16:00: Fifty Years of Computers, statistics and the Tree of Life (Anthony Edwards (University of Cambridge)) 2013-05-24 09:30: Optimal compensation for neuron death (David Barrett (ENS Paris)) 2013-05-24 12:00: Individual variation and the roles of L1 and proficiency in the L2 development of English grammatical morphemes (Akira Murakami, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-24 13:15: A genomic survey of the machineries that control & link cell shape, microtubules & cell cycle progression (Rafael Carazo Salas, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2013-05-24 14:00: Approaching biology discretely (Professor Timothy Newman (Univ. 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(Professor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE) 2013-05-29 13:00: Integrating Scale Out and Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing using Operator State Management (Eva Kalyvianaki (City University London)) 2013-05-29 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-05-30 11:15: Detecting engagement and positive emotions from facial expressions (Hamed Monkaresi) 2013-05-30 14:00: Demodulation and time-frequency analysis as inference (Dr Rich Turner, CUED.) 2013-05-30 16:00: Live imaging of inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Prof Paul Martin. 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(Dr Bree Aldridge, Tufts University, Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Boston ) 2013-06-06 15:00: Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (Yue Wu (University of Cambridge) and Andrew McHutchon (University of Cambridge)) 2013-06-07 10:00: Reaping the Benefits of Partial SDN Deployment in Enterprise Networks (Marco Canini, T-Labs) 2013-06-07 14:30: Reaping the Benefits of Partial SDN Deployment in Enterprise Networks ( Marco Canini (T-Labs)) 2013-06-07 16:00: New solutions of Laplace Tidal Equations over a sphere (Nathan Paldor (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem)) 2013-06-10 19:00: Building Business in the Sunshine (Stuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar) 2013-06-12 13:00: Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité: Regain control over your end systems (Marcel Waldvogel (University of Konstanz)) 2013-06-12 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Easter IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-06-13 10:45: 16th Cambridge/Oxford Applied Mathematics Meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-06-13 14:00: The customer's role in a product intelligence approach (Vaggelis Giannikas (University of Cambridge)) 2013-06-13 14:00: Probabilistic modelling of time-frequency representations with application to music signals (Dr Roland Badeau, Télécom ParisTech / CNRS LTCI, France.) 2013-06-13 14:30: Feedback control of the anaphase-telophase transition. (Dr Helder Maiato, Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto ) 2013-06-13 16:00: MeCP2 in the brain and beyond: from biology to disease (Dr Stuart Cobb. Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology, University of Glasgow) 2013-06-13 16:00: The end of taxonomy as we know it? (Alfred Vogler (University of East Anglia)) 2013-06-14 14:00: The influence of matrix geometry and stiffness on cancer invasion (Erik Sahai (Cancer Research UK, London)) 2013-06-14 16:00: The fluid mechanics wave-particle duality (Emmanuel Fort (Langevin Institute, ESPCI, Paris)) 2013-06-17 12:00: Using Grammars in On-line Education: Automatic error correction to improve writing skills (Dan Flickinger, CSLI, Stanford University) 2013-06-17 14:00: Dynamic Order Picking Strategies in Warehouse Management (Wenrong Lu (University of Cambridge)) 2013-06-18 14:30: Phase II/III clinical trials: Recent developments in methodology for trial design and analysis (Sue Todd, University of Reading) 2013-06-20 11:00: Warranty - The Visible Cost of Failure (Michael Gibson (Aston Martin, UK)) 2013-06-20 11:15: Body Movement and touch behaviour as means to recognize and enhance affective experience (Nadia Berthouze, UCL) 2013-06-20 14:00: Estimation with Incomplete State Information in the Smart Grid (Iñaki Esnaola, Princeton University) 2013-06-20 18:30: MRC Centenary Lecture: Putting life into numbers - how statistical science has transformed health care (Professor David J. Spiegelhalter OBE FRS) 2013-06-21 14:00: Economic Model Predictive Control: basic theory and future directions (Dr. David Angeli, Senior, Senior Lecture, Control and Power Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department., Imperial College) 2013-06-21 16:00: Taming the butterfly effect - towards computational engineering of chaotic systems (Qiqi Wang (MIT)) 2013-06-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Neil Houlsby , CBL) 2013-06-25 17:00: Global microRNA level regulation of EGFR-driven cell-cycle protein network in breast cancer (Stefan Wiemann (DKFZ Heidelberg)) 2013-06-26 10:30: Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine (Dr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge) 2013-06-26 13:00: Impact of Social Mapping in OpenStreetMap (Desi Hristova (University of Cambridge)) 2013-06-26 19:30: Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’ (Professor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry) 2013-06-27 14:00: Model-based Dependability Analysis & System Architecture Optimisation Using HiP-HOPS: (Prof. Yiannis Papadopoulos (University of Hull)) 2013-06-27 15:00: Survival analysis and stage at diagnosis: population based studies using Cancer Registry data (Dr David Greenberg (Eastern Cancer Registration and Information Centre)) 2013-07-01 11:00: Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies (Dr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute)) 2013-07-01 11:00: Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies (Dr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute)) 2013-07-02 19:30: Secrets of Antarctica (Anne Miller) 2013-07-04 15:00: Random Forests: One tool for all your problems. 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Ober, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas) 2013-07-09 11:00: Very high speed networking in VMs and bare metal (Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa) 2013-07-10 13:00: Very high speed networking in VMs and bare metal (Luigi Rizzo (University of Pisa)) 2013-07-11 11:15: Interactive software studio (William Billingsley, National ICT Australia) 2013-07-11 14:00: Fault-diagnostic Process and Fault-data Management for Locomotive System (Sushant Agarwal (DIAL)) 2013-07-15 16:00: Inference in non-linear dynamical systems -- a machine learning perspective (Carl Edward Rasmussen and Andrew McHutchon, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge) 2013-07-16 14:00: Noise estimation by PDE-constrained optimisation (Schönlieb Carola-Bibiane, Cambridge University) 2013-07-17 13:00: How to improve performance of ad-hoc networks? (Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)) 2013-07-17 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-07-18 14:00: Automated Analysis of Probabilistic Programs (Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen) 2013-07-18 17:30: Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards (Professor Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College, Atlanta) 2013-07-19 14:00: Stochastic Geometry in Dynamic State Estimation (Professor Ba-Ngu Vo, University of Western Australia) 2013-07-22 16:00: Multiscale modeling of neocortex: the microcircuitry canon from above and below (Professor William Lytton, Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, SUNY Downstate, New York) 2013-07-23 12:00: Apposition Extraction and Named Entity Linking (Will Radford) 2013-07-24 14:00: “When is fair sharing optimal?” (Yair Zick, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 2013-07-25 11:00: Bridging the Discrete and the Continuous in Reasoning about Programs (Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University) 2013-07-25 15:00: A demonstration of 'excess death plots' using Cancer Registry data (Peter Treasure (University of Cambridge)) 2013-07-26 10:00: Data Structures for Efficient Inference and Optimization in Expressive Continuous Domains (Scott Sanner, NICTA and the Australian National University) 2013-07-26 12:00: Spicy adjectives and nominal donkeys: Capturing semantic deviance using compositionality in distributional spaces (Eva Maria Vecchi, University of Trento) 2013-07-30 10:00: Validating SAT Refutations (Nathan Wetzler, UT Austin) 2013-07-30 11:00: SWAN: Software-driven wide area network (Ratul Mahajan, Microsoft Research) 2013-07-31 14:00: Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality (Richard Socher - Stanford University) 2013-08-02 11:00: Annealing Between Distributions by Averaging Moments (Chris Maddison (U Toronto)) 2013-08-02 11:00: Efficient Multi-dimensional Parametric Mincuts for Constrained MAP Inference (Kyomin Jung, KAIST) 2013-08-02 12:00: Where did it all go wrong? New Tools for Automatic Error Analysis in NLP (Jonathan Kummerfeld) 2013-08-02 15:00: Lifts of Convex Sets and Cone Factorizations (Rekha R. Thomas, University of Washington, Seattle) 2013-08-05 11:00: KAT on a Wire: A Foundation for Network Programming (David Walker, Princeton University) 2013-08-06 11:00: Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency Situations (Hannah Pauline Keiler (Columbia University and DIMACS)) 2013-08-08 11:00: Non-Parametric Conditional Random Fields in Computer Vision and Image Processing (Jeremy Jancsary (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2013-08-14 14:00: Control of PDE and Delay Systems Inspired by Applications in Fluids and Structures (Professor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego) 2013-08-14 14:00: The cost of principles (Abigail See , Research Intern, Microsoft Research Cambridge ,UK) 2013-08-16 12:00: Chinese CCGbank: Deep derivations and dependencies for Chinese CCG parsing (Daniel Tse, The University of Sydney) 2013-08-16 14:00: Datalog for Program Analysis: Beyond the Free Lunch (Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology) 2013-08-19 11:00: Fast and Guaranteed Learning of Overlapping Communities via Tensor Methods (Anima Anandkumar, University of California Irvine) 2013-08-20 13:30: Strategies for General Recognition (Derek Hoiem, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2013-08-21 11:00: The Relationship Between Separation Logic and Implicit Dynamic Frames (Dr Alexander Summers, ETH Zurich) 2013-08-21 14:00: Improving Time-of-Flight Range Data Quality (Andreas Kolb, Seigen University Germany) 2013-08-21 14:30: 3D Reconstruction using Point-Based Fusion (Damien Lefloch, Seigen University Germany) 2013-08-21 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-08-22 15:00: Whose fault is it anyway? – Feeding back on Data Quality: who adds the value? 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Let's Re-Think The Design Approach (Angela Sasse, University College London) 2013-09-11 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic Summer III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-09-13 11:00: Clustering Based on Predictive Variances in Gaussian Process Regression Models (Dr Hyun-Chul Kim ) 2013-09-13 11:00: Is The Rise of Cloud Storage, Cloud Computing and Social Networks a Consequence of a Failed OS (Operating System) Design? (Yvo Desmedt, University of Texas) 2013-09-13 16:00: QUIC Graphs: Relational Invariant Generation for Containers (Arlen Cox, University of Colorado Boulder/ENS Paris) 2013-09-16 16:00: Colon CSCs are sensitized by HDACinhibitors in a FOXO-dependent fashion (Jan Paul Medema (Amsterdam Medical Center)) 2013-09-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sina Tootoonian (University of Cambridge)) 2013-09-18 10:00: Disciplined Approximate Computing: From Language to Hardware, and Beyond (Luis Ceze, University of Washington) 2013-09-18 13:00: ParkSense: A Smartphone Based Sensing System For On-Street Parking (Sarfraz Nawaz (University of Cambridge)) 2013-09-18 14:30: Big Data and Dark Silicon: Taming Two IT Inflection Points on a Collision Course (Babak Falsafi, EPFL - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) 2013-09-19 11:15: Accurate Geometry Drawing with Tangibles (Beryl Plimmer, University of Auckland) 2013-09-19 14:00: Auctioning based Coordinated TV White Space Spectrum Sharing for Home Networks (Mahesh Marina, University of Edinburgh) 2013-09-21 11:00: Cambridge Museum of Technology Guided Tour (Museum Guide) 2013-09-24 10:00: Inextensibility constraints for 3D reconstruction of deformable objects (Sara Vicente, University College London) 2013-09-25 14:30: Naiad: A Timely Dataflow System (Derek Murray (MSR Silicon Valley)) 2013-09-26 15:00: Radiotherapy for benign disease - challenges of estimating risks of malignancy (Neil Burnet (University of Cambridge)) 2013-09-27 11:00: CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India)) 2013-09-27 11:30: Bandlimited Intensity Modulation (Prof. Erik Agrell, Department of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) 2013-09-27 12:00: Designing an Optical Internet Router with a Preview of an Optical Turing Machine for Network Processing (Joe Touch (USC/ISI)) 2013-09-27 14:00: How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! Strategies (Gerald Tesauro, IBM TJ Watson Research Center) 2013-10-01 14:00: Robust Models of Mouse Movement on Dynamic Web Search Results Pages (Fernando Diaz, Microsoft Research New York) 2013-10-02 14:00: Managing the Network with Merlin (Nate Foster, Cornell University) 2013-10-03 11:00: Active Pedestrian Safety: from Research to Reality (Dariu M. Gavrila, Daimler R&D (Ulm, Germany) and Univ. of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)) 2013-10-04 10:30: Five machine learning research topics at Oxford CS (Nando de Freitas, University of British Columbia) 2013-10-07 14:00: Compositionality in Vision and Language (Siddharth Narayanaswamy, Purdue University) 2013-10-08 15:00: Anomaly Detection in the Field (Christian Callegari, University of Pisa) 2013-10-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-09 13:00: Anomaly Detection in the Field (Christian Callegari (University of Pisa)) 2013-10-09 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-10-10 11:00: Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationships (Oliver Stegle (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute)) 2013-10-10 14:30: How does the kinetochore orchestrate a functional checkpoint signal? (Professor Jakob Nilsson from The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen ) 2013-10-10 19:00: Practically Making the Philosophers' Stone: Recreating Alchemical Experiments (Dr Jennifer Rampling (Dept of History of Science, Cambridge University)) 2013-10-11 12:00: Nonparametric Bayesian statistics with exchangeable random structures (Daniel Roy) 2013-10-11 14:00: Multiscale Modelling of Nonwoven Fabrics (Dr Emrah Demirci, Loughborough University) 2013-10-11 14:00: Stochastic signal encoding strategies in single cells (James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-11 16:00: Symmetry breaking in fluid-structure interaction systems (Professor Alessandro Bottaro, DICCA, Scuola Politecnica Universita di Genova) 2013-10-14 16:30: Imaging Neuronal and Behavioural Activity in the Freely Moving Animal: What are they looking at? (Jason Kerr, Max Planck Institute of Biological Sciences) 2013-10-14 18:00: Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation (Professor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics) 2013-10-14 18:00: Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology, from the Schrodinger Equation. (Professor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics) 2013-10-15 11:00: A Framework for Automatically Enforcing Privacy Policies (Jean Yang, MIT) 2013-10-15 13:00: Reflection methods for user-friendly submodular optimization (Francis Bach, ENS Paris, France ) 2013-10-16 13:00: Geo-Spotting: Mining Online Location-based Services for Optimal Retail Store Placement (Dmytro Karamshuk (KCL)) 2013-10-16 15:00: Type Refinement in the Abstract (Noam Zeilberger, MSR-INRIA) 2013-10-16 18:00: BioSoc Freshers' Squash (Join BioSoc - light refreshments provided) 2013-10-16 19:00: Teenagers: A Natural History (Dr David Bainbridge (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-17 11:15: Introduction to the Rainbow Group (Alan Blackwell with others) 2013-10-17 15:00: Eliminating Network Protocol Vulnerabilities Through Abstraction and Systems Language Design (Jasson Casey (Texas A&M University)) 2013-10-17 16:00: Studies on the evolutionary and functional morphology of mammalian ear ossicles (Prof Dr Wolfgang Maier (Chair of Systematic Zoology (emeritus) University of Tübingen)) 2013-10-18 14:00: Discrete modelling of fibrous networks (Dr Ron Peerlings, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2013-10-18 14:00: Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function (Lucy Colwell, Chemistry Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-18 16:00: Optimal locomotion of microorganisms (Dr Eric Lauga, DAMTP) 2013-10-21 16:00: Analysis of a large cancer gene screen in myelodysplastic syndromes (Moritz Gerstung (Sanger)) 2013-10-21 16:30: Functional Modules: How do we get them and what good are they? (Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School) 2013-10-21 19:30: Applied and not-yet-applied (Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-22 16:00: What the Rat's Whiskers Tell the Rat's Brain (Dr Rasmus Petersen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester) 2013-10-23 13:00: Integrating Scale Out and Fault Tolerance in Stream Processing using Operator State Management (Eva Kalyvianaki (City University London)) 2013-10-23 19:00: Some challenges in modelling influenza (Dr Julia Gog (CCBI and DAMTP, University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-24 11:15: Conference Talks (Zhen and whoever interested) 2013-10-24 15:00: Bayesian and Bandit Optimization (Dr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-24 15:30: Changing presentation of prostate cancer in a UK population – 10 year trends in prostate cancer risk profiles in the East of England (Vincent Gnanapragasam, Departments of Urology and Oncology, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-25 13:00: A Bigger and Faster Bitcoin: an Analysis of High-Rate Bitcoin Transaction Processing (Aviv Zohar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2013-10-25 13:15: Chiefs call in the Reserves: Differentiated Troy+ Chief cells act as ‘Reserve’ stem cells to generate all lineages of the stomach epithelium (Bon-Kyoung Koo, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-25 14:00: Compressive failure of fibre composites with random waviness (Dr Michael Sutcliffe, CUED) 2013-10-25 14:00: Accelerating localisation microscopy (Susan Cox, Department of Biology, King's College London) 2013-10-25 14:00: Incorporating Domain-Specific Knowledge in Learning Control using Multiple Dynamics Models (Joe Hall, University of Cambridge) 2013-10-25 14:00: Memristors: The Future of Computer Memory and Neuromorphic Circuits? (Panayiotis Georgiou, Imperial College London) 2013-10-25 16:00: The hydrodynamics of large lakes and the implications for carbon sequestration (Professor Jörg Imberger, Centre for Water Research, UWA, Perth) 2013-10-28 11:00: A talk of two distinct parts: 1) a parametric empirical Bayesian approach to integration of fMRI, EEG and MEG data, 2) prediction error in episodic memory encoding (Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2013-10-28 12:00: Agent Based Modelling (Elisabete Silva) 2013-10-28 18:00: Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns (Mr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey ) 2013-10-28 19:30: The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positive (Dr Gerard Lyons, Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London) 2013-10-29 14:00: Manufacturing and information management research at Loughborough University (Prof Tom Jackson, Loughborough University) 2013-10-30 13:00: Adaptive and Resource-Efficient Rural Area Networks (Veljko Pejovic (University of Birmingham)) 2013-10-30 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-10-30 19:00: Multiprotein assemblies, structural biology and drug discovery: Gaining selectivity through allostery (Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-31 11:15: Conference talk by Isak Herman (Isak Herman) 2013-10-31 14:00: Understanding Audio and Video at Google (Dr. Thomas C. Walters, Google) 2013-10-31 14:00: Optimising Maintenance of Multi-Component Systems with Continuous State Degradation Interactions (Nipat Rasmekomen (University of Cambridge)) 2013-10-31 15:00: Towards Programmable Wide-Area Virtual Networks (Panagiotis Papadimitriou (Universität Hannover)) 2013-10-31 15:00: Herding: Driving Deterministic Dynamics To Learn And Sample Probabilistic Models (Yutian Chen (University of California at Irvine)) 2013-11-01 12:00: BrainNet: Using Brain (and Corpus) Data to Investigate Conceptual Knowledge (Massimo Poesio, University of Essex) 2013-11-01 13:15: Nuclear actin and nuclear actin-binding protein as new players in embryonic development and reprogramming (Kei Miyamoto, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-01 14:00: Near-Field Electrospinning of Biomimetic Niche (Dr Yan Yan Shery Huang, CUED) 2013-11-01 14:00: Engineered Nanoparticles: the Bionano Interface in a Biological Environment (Francesca Baldelli-Bombelli, Department of Pharmacy, University of East Anglia) 2013-11-01 16:00: Stabilization of absolute instability in spanwise wavy wake/Stability of a downflowing gyrotatic microorganism suspension in a two-dimensional vertical channel (Dr Yongyun Hwang, DAMTP) 2013-11-04 16:30: Peripheral Pain Mechanisms (John Wood, University College Londaon (UCL) ) 2013-11-04 19:00: How can mice using iPads help cure Alzheimer's disease? (Professor Tim Bussey (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-04 19:30: The CSAR Debate (Speakers to be announced) 2013-11-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-06 13:00: Urban Technologies: Feeling your emotions (Daniele Quercia (Yahoo! Labs Barcelona)) 2013-11-06 13:30: Contrastive Learning Using Spectral Methods (James Zou (Harvard)) 2013-11-06 14:00: Physical constraints can encode bacterial promoter regulatory logic (Daphne Ezer (Department of Genetics)) 2013-11-06 19:00: PhD Information Event ([Careers Service and current PhD and MPhil students]) 2013-11-07 11:15: 3D, Augmented Reality, and Future of Human Computer Interface (Prof. Hakan Urey from Koç University) 2013-11-07 14:00: Interoperability on the Internet of Things (Pilgrim Beart) 2013-11-07 15:00: Random Projections (David Lopez-Paz, David Duvenaud) 2013-11-07 16:00: Tales from Television: bringing the natural world to your living room (George McGavin (University of Oxford)) 2013-11-07 19:00: The Science of Fireworks and Explosives – Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture (Prof Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2013-11-08 11:15: Neuronal processing of continuous sensory streams (Robert Gütig, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany) 2013-11-08 12:00: Data Management, Integration and Retrieval in Life Sciences Using Semantic Web Technology (Sarinder Kaur Kashmir-Singh, University of Malaya) 2013-11-08 13:15: Drosophila p53, growth control and metabolism (Marco Milan, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona) 2013-11-08 14:00: X-ray phase contrast imaging - detecting the undetectable (Sandro Olivo, Dept of Medical Phys & Bioengineering, University College London) 2013-11-08 14:00: Discovering the Structure of Visual Categories from Weak Annotations (Subhransu Maji, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) 2013-11-08 16:00: On resurging a bore-soliton-splash rogue wave (Professor Onno Bokhove, Mathematics, University of Leeds) 2013-11-11 16:00: Measuring within-tumour diversity as a universal biomarker for cancer prognosis (Trevor Graham (Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary Univ London)) 2013-11-11 18:00: The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough? (Professor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology ) 2013-11-12 10:00: Multimodal Gaze-Supported Interaction (Sophie Stellmach, Technische Universität Dresden) 2013-11-12 16:00: Learning sensory and spatial representations from interacting excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity (Henning Sprekeler (University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-13 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-11-13 18:00: Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute (Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry) 2013-11-13 19:00: Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty (Professor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-14 11:15: Live Programming: Origins and Directions (Steve Tanimoto ) 2013-11-14 14:00: Optimal Control with Noisy Time (Andrew Lamperski, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-14 14:30: Motors, rulers and clocks in chromosome segregation. (Dr Helder Maiato from Chromosome Instability & Dynamics Lab., Universidade do Porto) 2013-11-14 15:00: Spectral Learning ( Maxim Rabinovich, Aman Sinha) 2013-11-14 16:00: Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution (Rebecca Stott (University of East Anglia, Norwich)) 2013-11-14 16:00: Communication by Statistical Regression (Andrew Barron, Professor of Statistics, Yale University) 2013-11-14 17:15: Digital Connectivity in Cities: The Role of Policy (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-11-15 11:00: Exploiting (Commercial) Hot-Spots for Device-to-Device Communication (Jörg Ott (Aalto University)) 2013-11-15 12:00: Learning to Generate Natural Source Code (Daniel Tarlow, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2013-11-15 13:15: Patterning ensembles of mouse ES cells: the embryo redux (Alfonso Martinez Arias, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-15 14:00: VIRUS ASSEMBLY AND GENOME TRANSLOCATION: ORGANIZING PRINCIPLES FROM POLYMER PHYSICS (Murugappan Muthukumar, Dept Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2013-11-15 14:00: Smartphones, Crowds, and the Cloud: Population Guided Sensing Systems (Nic Lane (Microsoft Research Asia)) 2013-11-15 14:30: Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality (Professor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford) 2013-11-15 14:30: Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality (Professor Alain Goriely, University of Oxford) 2013-11-15 16:00: Hydrodynamics and phase behaviour of active suspensions (Dr Suzanne Fielding, Physics, Durham University) 2013-11-15 16:00: Systematic Literature Reviews (Part 1) and Academic literature and reviews - ways to cheat the system (Part 2) (Philip Woodall (University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-15 20:00: Watching Single Molecules (Professor David Klenerman) 2013-11-16 10:00: Cambridge Maths Circle (Volunteer staff and students, Faculty of Mathematics) 2013-11-18 14:00: Algebraic methods in computer vision and automatic generation of efficient algebraic solvers (Zuzana Kukelova, Center for Machine Perception/Martin Bujnak, Capturing Reality s.r.o.) 2013-11-18 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: But The Spell Remains: the role of emotions in public policy (Hilary Cottam, design strategist and founder/ principal partner of Participle) 2013-11-18 19:15: Notes on Notes: The musicology of performance (Professor John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ronald van den Berg, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-20 13:00: IOFlow: A Software-Defined Storage Architecture (Eno Thereska (MSR)) 2013-11-20 16:00: Three Stories on Aggregated Search (Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam) 2013-11-20 19:00: Are you your brain? (Professor Steven Rose (The Open University)) 2013-11-21 11:15: Facial landmark detection in unconstrained environments (Tadas) 2013-11-21 14:00: Condition-Based Maintenance Model for Complex Assets with Fault Propagation (Zengling Liang (University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-21 14:30: Widespread translation of small Open Reading Frames from coding regions, UTRs and non-coding RNAs. (Professor Juan Pablo Couso, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex ) 2013-11-21 15:00: Callisto: Co-scheduling Parallel Runtime Systems (Martin Mass (UC Berkeley)) 2013-11-21 19:00: Internship Information Event ([Careers Service and Former Summer Students and Interns]) 2013-11-22 13:15: The sins of your maternal grandparents: Transgenerational epigenetic effects of folate metabolism on development (Erica Watson, Centre for Trophoblast Research, University of Cambridge) 2013-11-22 14:00: Artificial evolution strategy for pet reconstruction (Franck Vidal, School of Computer Science, Bangor University ) 2013-11-22 16:00: Language based web security: the operational semantics approach (Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College) 2013-11-22 16:00: Language based web security: the operational semantics approach (Sergio Maffeis, Imperial College) 2013-11-25 11:00: Minimum Seeking for Unstable Unmodeled Systems (Professor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego) 2013-11-25 16:30: Sifting Circuits for Motor Control. (Tom Jessell. Columbia University, New York City) 2013-11-25 18:00: Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2013-11-26 10:00: Randomized tree ensembles: output kernels and variable importances (Pierre Geurts, University of Liège) 2013-11-26 11:30: Depot: from Byzantine fault tolerance to eventual consistency in a single system (Allen Clement, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems ) 2013-11-27 13:00: What makes mobile apps tick? lessons learned in collaborative app analysis (Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki)) 2013-11-27 16:00: TBC (muscle metabolism in extreme environments) (Dr Lindsay Edwards, GlaxoSmithKline, Director (Metabolism and Systems Biology)) 2013-11-27 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Michaelmas IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-11-27 19:00: Fat fish are a forest product (Dr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-28 11:00: PREDICTING SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN SITUATION-GAMES FROM CROWDSOURCING EXPERIMENTS (Corentin Vande Kerckhove (Université Catholique de Louvain) ) 2013-11-28 11:15: Automatic Multimodal Descriptors of Rhythmic Body Movement (Marwa, Jingjing) 2013-11-28 14:00: Dynamic State Estimation using Dirac Mixture Approximation and Directional Statistics (Igor Gilitschenski, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) 2013-11-28 14:30: Immune-metabolic interaction in Drosophila. (Dr Marc Dionne from the Peter Gorer Dept of Immunobiology, King's College London ) 2013-11-28 15:00: Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) (Sara Wade (University of Cambridge)) 2013-11-28 15:00: Misinterpretation of the origins and composition of staging data and its impact on colorectal cancer survival - A demonstration of the vital importance of cancer registration (Michael Eden, National Cancer Registration Service (Eastern)) 2013-11-28 19:00: Moving to low carbon energy provision – do we have a choice? (Prof Geoffrey Maitland (Imperial College London)) 2013-11-29 10:00: Automatic DifferentiationPart One: A Revisionist History and the State of the Art (Barak A. Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth) 2013-11-29 12:00: A Standard Document Score for Information Retrieval (Ronan Cummins, University of Greenwich) 2013-11-29 13:15: Molecular alchemy: How to make one cell type into another (David Tosh, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath) 2013-11-29 14:00: Light, camera, action: watching single DNA/RNA polymerases at work in living cells (Achillefs Kapanidis, Dept Physics, University of Oxford) 2013-11-29 16:00: Direct numerical simulations of motile bacteria in the turbulent ocean (Dr Romain Watteaux, DAMTP) 2013-12-02 10:00: Image Classification Using a Background Prior (Daniel Keren, Department of Computer Science University of Haifa) 2013-12-02 16:00: Incorporating Prior Biological Knowledge into Genetic Association Studies (David V. Conti (USC)) 2013-12-02 19:30: Do We Really Need Pandas? The impact of human intervention on natural selection (Dr Ken Thompson, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield) 2013-12-03 14:00: IMAGiNG and MATHEMATiCS workshops (Hendrik Dirks (DAMTP Cambridge/University of Münster), Kirsty Wan (DAMTP, Cambridge), Joan Lasenby (Engineering Department, Cambridge), Patrice Mascalchi (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Siru Virtanen (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Isabel Peset Martin (CRUK CI, Cambridge)) 2013-12-03 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge)) 2013-12-03 19:00: Epigenetics: Myths, Mysteries and Molecules (See Abstract) 2013-12-04 11:00: Programming Approximate Systems (Adrian Sampson, University of Washington) 2013-12-04 16:00: Gender, Science and Myths of Merit (Marlene Zuk (University of Minnesota)) 2013-12-04 17:15: The Flawed Dominance of Economics: Engaging more Social Sciences in Government (Speaker to be confirmed) 2013-12-05 14:00: INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS VIA NONPARAMETRIC MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (Prof. Richard Samworth, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2013-12-05 14:00: Hardware Neural Network Accelerators (Olivier Temam, Inria) 2013-12-06 10:00: Principles and Techniques of Automatic Differentiation (Laurent Hascoët, INRIA) 2013-12-06 11:00: Reasoning about Eventual Consistency (Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain) 2013-12-06 12:00: Parsing Jazz: Harmonic Analysis of Music Using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (Mark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory) 2013-12-06 16:00: Asymptotic theory for acoustic instability of premixed combustion (Professor Xuesong Wu, Mathematics, Imperial College London) 2013-12-11 10:00: Typed functional probabilistic programming: ready for practical use? (Tom Nielsen, OpenBrain) 2013-12-12 14:00: Condition monitoring for infrastructure assets: Building the business case (Phil Catton, DIAL, IfM) 2013-12-12 19:00: The Science of Whisky - A tasting tour of Scotland's finest (Alex Woolgar-Toms) 2013-12-16 10:00: Real time control with lots of humans in the loop (University of Southampton) 2013-12-16 10:00: Grappa: Scale-out Performance on Commodity Hardware for Irregular Applications (Mark Oskin (University of Washington)) 2013-12-17 14:00: Bayesian Machine Learning for Controlling Autonomous Systems (Marc Deisenroth, Imperial College) 2013-12-18 14:00: Discrete-Time Extremum-Seeking for Wiener-Hammerstein Plants with Applications to Online Engine Optimisation (Dr. Rohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne) 2013-12-19 10:00: A Combinatorial Prediction Market for the US Elections (Sebastien Lahaie, Microsoft Research, New York) 2014-01-06 11:00: Efficient Preconditioning of Laplacian Matrices for Computer Graphics (Dilip Krishnan, MIT) 2014-01-09 09:30: COLOUR (Organised by Professor John Mollon FRS) 2014-01-10 11:00: Sparse discriminative latent characteristics for predicting cancer drug sensitivity (David Knowles (Stanford University)) 2014-01-15 11:00: Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic Programs (Jan-Willem van de Meent (Columbia University)) 2014-01-15 19:30: The Saga of Alemtuzumab in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (Professor Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2014-01-16 14:30: Structural insights into the molecular mechanisms of accurate chromosome segregation. (Dr. A. Jeyaprakash Arulanandam, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh) 2014-01-16 15:00: Approximate Bayesian Computation and Complex network models (Damien Fay (Bournemouth University)) 2014-01-16 15:00: Bayesian State-Space Modelling on High-Performance Hardware Using LibBi (Dr Lawrence Murray, CSIRO Australia) 2014-01-16 15:00: Information Theory and Method of Types: Channels, Quantizers, and Divergences (Antonio Artés-Rodríguez (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li) 2014-01-16 16:00: All for one and one for all: single-cell properties in the service of circuit-level computations (Dr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2014-01-17 11:00: Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3) (Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-17 12:00: GPstruct: Bayesian non-parametric structured prediction model (Novi Quadrianto, Machine Learning, University of Cambridge) 2014-01-17 14:00: On energy and momentum transfer to deformable structures from underwater explosions and air blast (P J Tan, University College London) 2014-01-17 14:00: Physico-chemical properties of colloids, their interaction with cells, and some applications (Prof Wolfgang Parak, Biophotonics Group, University of Marburg, Marburg Germany) 2014-01-17 16:00: A global stability analysis of tonal noise in the flow around an aerofoil: instability and receptivity mechanisms (Miguel Fosas de Pando, LadHyX, Ecole polytechnique) 2014-01-17 17:30: Plagues & Medicine (Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge) 2014-01-20 16:00: Systems biology of stem cell fate (Ben MacArthur (University of Southampton)) 2014-01-20 19:30: Validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance (Professor John Gruzelier, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London) 2014-01-22 15:00: Auto-ID Labs activities (Mark Harrison (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-22 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-01-22 17:30: Troubled by Culture: Global Reflections in a World of Change (Professor Aida Hernandez, Dr Susan Bayly and Professor Sarah Radcliffe) 2014-01-23 14:30: Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance. (Professor Jurek Paszkowski, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge ) 2014-01-23 15:00: User-level networking: The hard problems (David Riddoch (Solarflare)) 2014-01-23 15:00: Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-23 15:00: Understanding GP Referral Styles (Steph Peart, Macmillan Cancer Support) 2014-01-23 16:00: Dendritic Potassium Channel Regulation by Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein (FMRP) (Dr HyeYoung Lee, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California in San Francisco) 2014-01-24 12:00: Spectral Learning and Decoding for Natural Language Parsing (Shay Cohen, University of Edinburgh) 2014-01-24 13:15: CANCELLED: Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control (Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London) 2014-01-24 14:00: Reversible Control of NON-Volatile Magnetic Memory Using Soft Materials: Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Nanocomposites (Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH Zurich) 2014-01-24 14:30: Nonlinearity in musical instruments (Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED) 2014-01-24 14:30: Nonlinearity in musical instruments (Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED) 2014-01-24 16:00: Siqueiros used a hydrodynamic instability to create provocative images in painting (Roberto Zenit Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) 2014-01-24 17:30: Plagues & History (Professor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge) 2014-01-27 16:00: Profiling the Subclonal Copy Number Architecture from Whole Genome Sequencing of Heterogeneous Tumours (Gavin Ha, BC Cancer Research Centre) 2014-01-27 16:30: The first steps in vision: computation and repair. (Botond Roska. Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel, Switzerland.) 2014-01-27 18:00: Fluid mechanical processes during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide (Professor John Lister, DAMTP) 2014-01-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-29 17:30: Water: Commodity or human right? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-01-30 11:15: Group progress reports (Rainbow Group) 2014-01-30 14:00: The persistence of structure: Layers, time, and the estimation of optical flow (Michael J. Black , Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) 2014-01-30 14:15: Research Areas (Duncan McFarlane (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-30 14:30: Deconstructing Greatwall Kinase. (Dr Helfrid Hochegger, University of Sussex ) 2014-01-30 15:00: Joint Source-Channel Coding with Fading Channel and Side Information (Dr. Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London) 2014-01-30 15:00: Security-Oriented Analysis of Application Programs (Khilan Gudka (University of Cambridge)) 2014-01-31 12:00: Categorical compositional distributional semantics: state-of-the-art! (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London) 2014-01-31 13:15: Axis specification in Drosophila: mRNA transport and translational control (Timothy Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2014-01-31 14:00: Bioinspired materials and devices (Dr Elisa Mele, The Italian institute of Technology ) 2014-01-31 14:00: Growth and form of the gut (Dr Thierry Savin, CUED) 2014-01-31 16:00: Phyllotaxis, pushed pattern fronts and optimal packing (Alan Newell, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona) 2014-01-31 17:30: Silicon Plagues (Mikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist) 2014-02-03 10:00: FaRM: Fast Remote Memory (Aleksandar Dragojevic, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2014-02-03 11:00: Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric Bayesian credible sets (Botond Szabo (Eindhoven University of Technology)) 2014-02-03 14:00: Declarative Static Program Analysis (Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Athens) 2014-02-03 16:00: Using time-resolved genetic data to study the evolution of drug resistance. (Ville Mustonen (Sanger Institute)) 2014-02-03 16:30: It takes two to tango: The cerrebellum simplified into two types of modules with two encoding schemes (Professor Chris de Zeeuw. Erasmus MC, Rotterdam and the Netherands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam) 2014-02-03 19:30: Can Research Prevent Crime? (Professor Lawrence Sherman, Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-04 16:00: Source-sensitive routing (Matthieu Boutier (Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7) ) 2014-02-05 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-02-05 19:00: Socio-ecology and Conservation of Asian Apes (Dr David Chivers (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-06 11:00: EU Horizon 2020 (Vaggelis Giannikas (University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-06 14:15: Part II student presentations (Part II students) 2014-02-06 14:30: Checks and Balances in Drosophila Muscle and Heart Differentiation Programs. (Dr Mike Taylor, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff) 2014-02-06 15:00: An introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo (Thang Bui (University of Cambridge), Jes Frellsen) 2014-02-07 13:15: The development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Clare Baker, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-07 14:00: Are CMOS image sensors (and CCDs) dinosaurs? (Dr Renato Turchetta, STFC-RAL Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2014-02-07 14:30: Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research (Professor Mark Miodownik, University College London) 2014-02-07 14:30: Experiments in multidisciplinary materials research (Professor Mark Miodownik, University College London) 2014-02-07 16:00: Fingers, bulges and wrinkles - some contact line problems (Neil Balmforth, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia) 2014-02-07 17:30: The Nature of Plagues (Professor Angela McLean, University of Oxford) 2014-02-10 11:00: Topological Data Analysis: potential applications to computer vision (Vitaliy Kurlin, Durham University) 2014-02-10 14:00: Multi Physics Modelling for Automotive Control Development (Akira Ohata, Toyota Motor Corporation) 2014-02-10 16:30: Choice and value: a behavioural ecologist's perspective on animal preferences (Alex Kacelnik. Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) 2014-02-10 18:00: The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action (Dr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences) 2014-02-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.)) 2014-02-12 11:00: Probabilistic machine learning for knowledge extraction from videos and text (Kevin Murphy (Google)) 2014-02-12 19:00: Biophysical insights into protein aggregation (Dr Tuomas Knowles (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-13 11:15: Conference Report - Electronic Imaging 2014 (Neil Dodgson (University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-13 14:30: Vaccinia virus has evolved the Bcl-2 family of proteins to thwart the host innate immune system. (Dr Stephen Graham, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge ) 2014-02-13 15:00: Enhancing Network Structure to Increase Resilience and Survivability (James P.G. Sterbenz (University of Kansas)) 2014-02-14 13:15: Extrinsic forces and cell shape changes in gastrulation (Bénédicte Sanson, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-14 14:00: An introduction to bi-level programming in control (Professor Morten Hovd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2014-02-14 14:00: Biomimetic routes to colloidal self-assembly (Jasna Burjic, NYU, Physics and Soft Matter Center) 2014-02-14 16:00: Flying through volcanic umbrella clouds (Herbert Huppert, ITG/DAMTP & Bristol & UNSW) 2014-02-14 17:30: Plagues, Populations & Survival (Professor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University) 2014-02-17 11:00: Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power Disaggregation (Isabel Valera (University Carlos III in Madrid)) 2014-02-17 16:00: The Resistant Cancer Cell Line (RCCL) collection – cancer cell lines with acquired drug resistance as a pre-clinical and basic science model (Martin Michaelis (University of Kent)) 2014-02-17 16:30: Ten Ways To A Better Brain (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-17 19:30: The Grand Challenges and Accomplishments of Engineering Research (Professor Lord Alec Broers, Former Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-18 11:00: Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideas (Yura Perov, Oxford University) 2014-02-18 18:15: “Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry” (Joanna Kerr and India Weidle) 2014-02-19 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-02-19 19:00: Imaging biology in the cancer patient (Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci (CRUK and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-20 10:00: Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint Modeling (Changyou Chen (ANU)) 2014-02-20 11:15: Facial Affect Mapping Engine (Leonardo Impett (University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-20 14:00: The Ribosome Flow Model: Theory and Applications (Michael Margaliot, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University) 2014-02-20 14:00: Is the Gaussian distribution "Normal"?: Signal processing with alpha-stable distributions (Dr. Ercan E Kuruoglu, ISTI-CNR Pisa Italian National Council of Research and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin) 2014-02-20 14:00: Holonic Control and Intelligent Products ( Roxana Hossu ) 2014-02-20 14:30: Studying the invasive migration of Drosophila immune cells. (Professor Daria Siekhaus, IST Austria (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)) 2014-02-20 15:00: A Cyber Security Lab: from teaching, to a security evaluation platform, to a novel configuration management paradigm? (Olaf Maennel (Loughborough University)) 2014-02-20 15:30: An Online Allocation Mechanism with Pre-Commitment and its Application to Electric Vehicle Charging (Valentin Robu, University of Southampton) 2014-02-20 16:00: Insights into human biology from patterns of genetic variation (Dr Chris Tyler-Smith - The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2014-02-21 12:00: A Quest Towards Understanding the Challenges of Spoken Content Retrieval (Gareth Jones, Dublin City University) 2014-02-21 13:15: Molecular mechanisms of Wnt signalling (Mariann Bienz, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2014-02-21 14:00: Working under confinement (Miguel Rubi, Universitat de Barcelona & Leverhulme Professor at Imperial College London) 2014-02-21 14:00: Particle filters and curse of dimensionality (Patrick Rebeschini (Princeton)) 2014-02-21 15:00: Postdoctoral Symposium Welcome (C. P. Caulfield) 2014-02-21 15:05: Folding of cell monolayers – inversion in the green algae Volvox sp. (Stephanie Hoehn (DAMTP)) 2014-02-21 15:18: Symmetry breaking and helicity dynamics in the Ekman boundary layer (Enrico Deusebio (DAMTP)) 2014-02-21 15:31: Oblique coherent structures in plane Couette flow (Conor Daly (DAMTP)) 2014-02-21 15:44: Shear-thinning effects on microswimmers (Tom Montenegro-Johnson (DAMTP)) 2014-02-21 16:12: Spectral analysis of the transition to turbulence from a dipole in stratified fluid (Pierre Augier (DAMTP)) 2014-02-21 16:25: A stochastic Arctic sea ice model (Woosok Moon (DAMTP)) 2014-02-21 16:38: The capillary trapping by a pair of horizontal cylinders (Himantha Cooray (DAMTP)) 2014-02-21 17:30: The Human Plague (Professor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research) 2014-02-24 11:00: Generative probabilistic programming: applications and new ideas (Yura Perov (Oxford)) 2014-02-24 16:30: The different perceptual worlds in which we live (Prof. John Mollon, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-24 18:00: Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running (Professor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore) 2014-02-25 09:00: Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-02-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ronald van den Berg, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-26 19:00: Sex and the Brain (in fruit flies) (Dr Gregory Jefferis (MRC LMB, University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-27 11:00: Computational foundations of Bayesian inference and probabilistic programming (Daniel Roy, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-27 11:15: Thoughts on half-box spline subdivision (Pieter Barendrecht (University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-27 11:40: Conversion of Trimmed NURBS Surfaces to Subdivision Surfaces (Jingjing Shen (University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-27 14:00: Research Proposal Process ( Petra Kasmanova (University of Cambridge)) 2014-02-27 14:00: Classification on the Grassmann Manifold: Performance Limits of Compressive Classifiers (Dr. Miguel Rodrigues, University College London) 2014-02-27 14:00: Moment relaxations for the global resolution of optimal control problems (Mathieu Claeys, University of Cambridge) 2014-02-27 14:30: Molecular insights into the ecology, epidemiology and evolution of bat rabies. (Dr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow) 2014-02-27 15:00: FaRM: Fast Remote Memory (Aleksandar Dragojevic (MSR Cambridge)) 2014-02-27 15:30: The Screening Histories Information Manger (SHIM) Project: linking breast cancer diagnosis and screening information (Emily Steggall, East of England Screening QARC & Cambridgeshire County Council) 2014-02-27 16:00: Allosteric and genetic modulation of brain inhibition (Prof Trevor Smart; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College London) 2014-02-27 19:30: The peculiarities of the naked mole-rat – what can we learn from them? (Dr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology) 2014-02-28 11:00: Bayesian canonical correlation analysis (Seppo Virtanen (Aalto University)) 2014-02-28 12:00: Constructing topical hierarchies for Expertise Mining (Georgeta Bordea, DERI, NUI Galway) 2014-02-28 12:00: Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights. 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(David Attwell, University College, London) 2014-03-03 19:00: Energetic constraints on the evolution of life (Dr Nick Lane (Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London)) 2014-03-03 19:30: Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wings (Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-04 11:00: Bayesian nonparametric dynamic-clustering and genetic imputation (Lloyd Elliott (Gatsby Unit, UCL / Oxford)) 2014-03-05 13:00: Engineering flies. ( Professor Hugo J Bellen, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine) 2014-03-05 15:00: A Drosophila resource to study human pathology. (Dr Shinya Yamamoto, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine) 2014-03-05 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013-2014 Lent IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-03-05 17:30: The Nation's Hidden Art College Revealed (Andrew Ellis, Director of the Public Catalogue Foundation) 2014-03-06 11:15: End-User Development of Mashups with NaturalMash (Saeed Aghaee) 2014-03-06 14:00: Smart Factory. How to realize it? (Jumyung Um (University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-06 14:30: Targets of T cell responses against malaria liver infection: immunology meets experimental genetics. (Dr Julius Hafalla, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Immunology and Infection) 2014-03-06 15:00: A new open and flexible way to test next-generation (OpenFlow) switches (Gianni Antichi (University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-06 15:00: Whither discrete-time model predictive control? (Gabriele Pannocchia, University of Pisa) 2014-03-06 16:00: Cortical HCN channels: function, trafficking and plasticity (Dr Mala Shah; Department of Pharmacology, UCL School of Pharmacy) 2014-03-07 12:00: The semantics of poetry: a distributional reading (Aurelie Herbelot) 2014-03-07 13:15: Arc stress: a novel mechanism for epithelial bending (Jeremy Green, Department of Craniofacial Development, King’s College London) 2014-03-07 14:00: Living Clusters in Suspensions of Active Colloids (Bortolo Mognetti, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles) 2014-03-07 14:30: Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness (Professor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas) 2014-03-07 14:30: Modeling Ductile Fracture Toughness and Fracture Surface Roughness (Professor Alan Needleman, University of North Texas) 2014-03-07 16:00: High Rayleigh number convection in a porous medium (Duncan Hewitt ITG/DAMTP) 2014-03-07 17:30: Plagues & Metaphor (Dr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-10 10:00: Rethinking State-Machine Replication for Multicore Architectures (Parisa Jalili Marandi, University of Lugano) 2014-03-10 16:00: The State of the Art in (Linux) Congestion Control (Dave Taht (Teklibre)) 2014-03-10 16:30: Adaptive Coding in the Auditory System (Andrew King, University of Oxford) 2014-03-10 18:00: Electric and Hybrid Powered Aircraft – making energy go further (Dr Paul Robertson, Department of Engineering) 2014-03-11 11:00: Learning to Learn for Structured Sparsity (Nino Shervashidze (INRIA)) 2014-03-11 14:00: Babel -- a modular routing protocol (Juliusz Chroboczek (Université de Paris 7)) 2014-03-12 10:00: Designing Controller Abstractions for Software-Defined Networks (Joshua Reich, Princeton University) 2014-03-12 19:00: G-quadruplex: the DNA quadruple helix (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS (CRUK and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-13 10:00: Achieving the Full Potential of State Machine Replication: High Throughput, Low Latency, Constant Availability (Julian Moraru, Carnegie Mellon University) 2014-03-13 11:00: Mechanism design for Cloud Computing and Crowdsourcing (Angelina Vidali, Duke University) 2014-03-13 12:00: Origin and evolution of novel microRNAs. (Dr Antonio Marco, University of Essex) 2014-03-13 14:00: Differentially positive systems (Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge) 2014-03-13 14:00: Dual-to-kernel learning with ideals (Dr. Franz Kiraly, University College London) 2014-03-13 15:00: Recommending Investors for Crowdfunding Projects (Jisun An (University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-13 16:00: Regulation of lymphocyte development and activation by RNA binding proteins and non-coding RNA (Dr Martin Turner; Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute) 2014-03-14 09:00: Trouble-makers: Audio-video distortions as a relational resource in couples’ video calls (Sean Rintel, University of Queensland) 2014-03-14 12:00: Exploiting Query Logs to Build Adaptive Domain Models for Search and Navigation (Udo Kruschwitz) 2014-03-14 14:00: Recent advances in lattice materials (Professor Norman Fleck, CUED) 2014-03-14 14:00: Living photonic devices from patchy colloids: Inspiration from cephalopods (Alison Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania) 2014-03-14 16:00: Balancing a ball on a moving vertical wall covered in viscous fluid (Tom Mullin, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester) 2014-03-14 16:00: Alpha-Stable Poisson-Kingman Processes: Some Applications and Methodologies (Yee Whye Teh, University of Oxford) 2014-03-14 19:00: Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE? (Dr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde)) 2014-03-17 11:00: The Performance of Deferred-Acceptance Heuristic Auctions (Paul Duetting, Stanford University) 2014-03-17 11:30: Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric Optimization (Suvrit Sra (Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and CMU)) 2014-03-17 14:15: Characterizing nanoscale friction and work of adhesion using measurements followed by modeling (Professor G G Adams, Northeastern University, Boston) 2014-03-17 19:30: New Book Evening (Profs. Spiegelhalter, Ahmed and Longair) 2014-03-18 10:00: Part Detection and Species Identification (David Jacobs, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland) 2014-03-18 11:00: Data Driven Student Feedback For MOOCs: Global Scale Education for the 21st century (Jonathan Huang, Stanford University) 2014-03-19 11:00: Using ConvNets, MALIS and crowd-sourcing to map the retinal connectome (Srini Turaga, Gatsby Unit & Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UCL) 2014-03-20 11:15: Pervasive Gaze Estimation for Attentive User Interfaces (Erroll Wood (University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-20 14:00: Holonic Control and Intelligent Products ( Roxana Hossu) 2014-03-20 15:00: TCP in the Wild (Richard Clegg (UCL)) 2014-03-21 10:00: Scaling Deep Learning (Misha Denil, University of Oxford) 2014-03-21 13:00: Exploiting Large Corpora for Parsing (Dominick Ng, University of Sydney) 2014-03-21 14:00: Analyzing and Abstracting Scans of Man-made Environments (Dr Niloy MItra, Reader, Dept of Computer Science, UCL) 2014-03-21 19:30: Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster (Luke Webster) 2014-03-24 14:00: Switched differential systems (Paolo Rapisarda (joint work with Jonathan C. Mayo-Maldonado), University of Southampton) 2014-03-25 10:00: Automatic Differentiation - Part One: A Revisionist History and the State of the Art (Barak A. Pearlmutter, NUI Maynooth) 2014-03-25 10:00: Performance Optimizations for Compiler-based Error Detection Methodologies (Konstantina Mitropoulou, University of Edinburgh) 2014-03-25 14:00: Forecasts and Control: Theory and Practice. (Francesco Borrelli, University of California at Berkeley) 2014-03-25 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2014-03-26 09:00: Characterizing and Improving Last-Mile Performance Using Home Networking Infrastructure (Srikanth Sundaresan, College of Computing, Georgia Tech) 2014-03-26 10:00: Globally Optimizing Graph Partitioning Problems Using Message Passing (Elad Mezuman, Hebrew University) 2014-03-26 11:00: Rich semantic representations for detailed visual recognition (Subhransu Maji, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) 2014-03-26 14:00: IC3 Modulo Theories via Implicit Predicate Abstraction (Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler) 2014-03-27 14:00: Management of Energy Systems (Mohsen Jafari (Rutgers University)) 2014-03-27 15:00: Cosmic Rays Don't Strike Twice: Understanding the Nature of DRAM Errors and the Implications for System Design (Ioan Stefanovici (University of Toronto)) 2014-03-28 10:00: Decision Making and Inference under Limited Information and Large Dimensionality (Stefano Ermon, Cornell University) 2014-03-28 10:00: Incremental Parallel and Distributed Systems (Pramod Bhatotia, MPI-SWS) 2014-03-28 11:00: Policy Evaluation with Temporal Differences (Christoph Dann (Technische Universität Darmstadt)) 2014-03-28 12:00: Design decisions in web corpus construction and their impact on distributional semantic models (Felix Bildhauer, Freie Universität Berlin) 2014-03-28 14:00: Engineering tissue morphogenesis in vitro (Dr Alison P McGuigan, University of Toronto Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry) 2014-03-31 09:00: Publish/Subscribe for Large-Scale Social Interaction: Design, Analysis and Resource Provisioning (Vinay Setty, University of Oslo) 2014-03-31 11:30: Non-Traditional Modelling (Brian Wyvill, University of Bath & University of Victoria) 2014-03-31 16:00: Single molecule approaches for studying gene expression in intact mammalian tissues. (Shalev Itzkovitz (Weizmann Institute)) 2014-04-02 11:00: Machine Learning and Order Book Dynamics (Tristan Fletcher ) 2014-04-02 13:30: Probabilistic computing for Bayesian inference (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT)) 2014-04-02 14:00: Bandits with Switching Costs: T^{2/3} Regret (Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research Redmond) 2014-04-02 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter Break (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-04-03 13:00: Visco-plastic lubrication: from theory to application (Sarah Hormozi (Universite Paris Est, Laboratoire Navier)) 2014-04-03 15:00: Loopy belief propagation (Alexander Matthews (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li) 2014-04-04 11:00: Probabilistic computing applications: BayesDB and stochastic digital circuits (Vikash K. Mansinghka (MIT)) 2014-04-04 12:00: Using Semantics to help learn Phonetic Categories (Stella Frank, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) 2014-04-07 11:00: Sustainable IT and IT for Sustainability (Zhenhua Liu, California Institute of Technology) 2014-04-07 16:00: Variations in genetic and phenotypic diversity during breast cancer progression. (Vanessa Almendro (Harvard University)) 2014-04-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge)) 2014-04-08 18:00: Perception and belief in psychosis (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-04-10 14:30: Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics (Professor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University) 2014-04-10 14:30: Mechanics of Stretchable Electronics (Professor Yonggang Huang, Joseph Cummings Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University) 2014-04-10 15:00: Neural Network Language Modelling (Chunyang Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2014-04-11 12:00: Adjective modification in compositional distributional semantics (Eva Maria Vecchi, Computer Lab, Cambridge) 2014-04-14 19:30: Self-Assembling Molecular Structures, Novel molecular structures and materials (Professor Daan Frenkel, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2014-04-15 10:00: Crafting Visualizations (Boris Müller, Fachhochschule Potsdam) 2014-04-15 11:00: Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks (Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2014-04-16 16:00: Measuring and Analyzing Online Advertising (Paul Barford (the University of Wisconsin)) 2014-04-17 16:00: The Art of Corporate Storytelling (Steve Clayton, Microsoft) 2014-04-18 16:00: (How) can we secure Internet routing? (Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2014-04-23 10:00: The shadowy life of many webcams (Robert Pless, Washington University in St. Louis) 2014-04-23 18:00: Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP (Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade) 2014-04-24 11:15: First person sketch-based terrain editing (Flora Tasse (University of Cambridge)) 2014-04-24 14:30: Computational insights into stem cell differentiation using dynamic hybrid modelling. (Dr Ben Hall from Microsoft Research, Cambridge ) 2014-04-24 15:00: Efficient Image Scene Analysis and Applications (Ming-Ming Cheng, University of Oxford) 2014-04-24 15:00: The Bernoulli Factory problem and some connections with Computable Analysis (Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge)) 2014-04-24 16:00: Molecular regulation of skeletal muscle stem cells in distinct cell states (Shahragim Tajbakhsh - Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development) 2014-04-25 13:15: Getting in Shape: in vivo and in silico studies of tissue mechanics in growth control (Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London) 2014-04-25 14:00: Particles and fluids (Dr Mark Haw, Department of Engineering, University of Strathclyde) 2014-04-25 16:00: Experimental study of turbulent multiphase flows: inertial particles, collisions and bubble dynamics (Alberto Aliseda, University of Washington) 2014-04-28 10:00: Protecting Programs During Resource Retrieval (Trent Jaeger, Penn State University) 2014-04-30 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-05-01 11:15: Educational Programming Languages: The Motivation to Learn with Sonic Pi (Arabella Jane Sinclair (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-01 14:15: Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation (Richard Mason, University of Oxford) 2014-05-01 14:30: From stripes to blood flow: cell fates of the lateral plate. (Professor Christian Mosimann from the Institute of Molecular Life Sciences (IMLS), University of Zürich) 2014-05-01 15:00: Radio Aspects of the Home Area Network for Smart Metering (Dr. William Harrold, Thing Connect Ltd.) 2014-05-01 15:00: Functional Programming (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-02 12:00: Natural Language Parsing -- for what purpose? (Milos Jakubicek) 2014-05-02 13:15: Liver and pancreas Stem/progenitor cells and organoid cultures (Meritxell Huch, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-02 14:00: If the fittest never arrive, then they can't survive: on the topology of evolutionary search. (Prof. Ard A Louis, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University) 2014-05-02 14:05: Passive diffusion of helical bacteria (Lyndon Koens, DAMTP) 2014-05-02 14:18: Attraction of bacteria to algae: finding your partner in a microbial world (Francois Peaudecerf, DAMTP) 2014-05-02 14:31: Linear optimal perturbations of a stratified shear layer (Alexis Kaminski, DAMTP) 2014-05-02 14:44: Elastic viscous fingering (Gunnar Peng, ITG/DAMTP) 2014-05-02 14:57: The discharge of rivers into the North Sea (Tom Crawford, DAMTP) 2014-05-02 15:10: Green's function in swirling flow (James Mathews, CCA) 2014-05-02 15:23: The spectral Dirichlet-Neumann map for Laplace's equation in a smooth convex domain (Parousia Rockstroh, CCA) 2014-05-02 15:36: Fronts and Frontogenesis (Callum Shakespeare, DAMTP) 2014-05-02 16:10: Flow dynamics of confined ice shelves (Martin Wearing, ITG/DAMTP) 2014-05-02 16:23: Inferring regulatory networks from transcriptomic data using gaussian graphical models (Clare Pacini, DAMTP) 2014-05-02 16:36: Wax walls: a way to buffer temperature variations, keep us comfy, and save energy (Rachael Bonnebaigt, DAMTP) 2014-05-02 16:49: Granular flow around an obstacle (Josh Caplan, DAMTP) 2014-05-02 17:02: Isospectral Flows and Inverse Eigenvalue Problems (Marcus Webb, CCA) 2014-05-02 17:15: Variational Problems with Linear Growth (Giles Shaw, DAMTP) 2014-05-05 16:00: Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation (Professor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2014-05-05 19:30: Tunnelling Under Cities, Advances in Research and Practice (Professor Robert Mair, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-07 11:00: Mid-level Likelihoods and Constraints for 3D Scene Interpretation (David Fouhey, The Robotics Institute) 2014-05-07 16:00: Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively. (Professor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2014-05-08 11:00: Stable Poisson-Kingman species sampling priors generated by general ordered size biased generalized gamma mixing distributions (Prof. Lancelot James (HKUST)) 2014-05-08 14:00: A Riemannian approach to large scale constrained least squares with symmetries (Bamdev Mishra, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge) 2014-05-08 14:30: Molecular mechanisms of Mediator complex recruitment by transcription factors. (Alexis Verger from Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université de Lille ) 2014-05-08 15:00: The story of figure 12b - trials, terrors and tribulations in applied systems research (Matthew Grosvenor (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-08 16:00: Stability analysis for pattern forming systems with slowly evolving base states (Andreas Muench (University of Oxford)) 2014-05-08 16:00: Hippocampal network dynamics underpinning the emergence and persistence of spatial memories (David Dupret - Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford) 2014-05-08 16:00: The Art of Corporate Storytelling (Steve Clayton, Microsoft) 2014-05-08 19:00: Twilight of the Scientific Age (Dr Martín López Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands)) 2014-05-09 12:00: Identifying Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Text (Shomir Wilson, University of Edinburgh and Carnegie Mellon University) 2014-05-09 13:15: Going round in circles: development of the zebrafish vestibular system (Tanya Whitfield, MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield) 2014-05-09 14:00: Contact Line – Quo Vadis? (Professor Dirks Aarts, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford) 2014-05-09 15:00: ALADDIN current progress (Philip Woodall (University of Cambridge), Mark Harrison (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-09 16:00: Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter. (Professor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2014-05-09 16:00: Particle entrainment into avalanches: Driven by pore pressures? (Barbara Turnbull, University of Nottingham) 2014-05-12 16:30: Insights into the moecular basis of of neurodegenerative disease. (Prof. Graham Collingridge, University of Bristol) 2014-05-13 14:00: Invariant Kalman Filtering (Silvere Bonnabel, Mines Paris-Tech) 2014-05-13 17:30: Thinking for Programmers: Rising Above the Code (Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research) 2014-05-14 11:00: Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families (Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-14 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-05-14 18:00: Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota (Dr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences) 2014-05-14 18:30: The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices (Dr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences) 2014-05-15 14:00: Joint optimization of preventive maintenance plan, production schedule and quality control policy in a discrete manufacturing plant (Azman Aziz (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-15 14:00: AR Identification of Latent Graphical Models (Mattia Zorzi, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge) 2014-05-15 14:30: Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling. (Dr. Giorgos Pyrowolakis from BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies & Institute for Biology, University of Freiburg) 2014-05-15 15:00: Examining Region-Specific Third-Party Web Tracking Services (Hamed Haddadi (Queen Mary University of London)) 2014-05-15 15:00: Statistical model criticism (James Lloyd (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-15 19:00: 2050: Sustainable UK? (Dr John Emsley) 2014-05-16 10:30: Bayesian inference for integer-valued Lévy processes with Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck volatility modelling (Andrea Cremaschi (Kent)) 2014-05-16 11:00: From Big Data to banality of evil : toward an epistemological approach to ethics in Internet Era (Kavé Salamatian (University of Savoie)) 2014-05-16 13:15: A bistable transcriptional switch modulated by signalling drives the choice between embryonic and extraembryonic cell fate (Christian Schroeter, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-16 14:00: Watching single molecules (Professor David Klenerman FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-16 14:00: Cellular models for Tissue Engineering: potential and limitations (Professor C. James Kirkpatrick, Johannes Gutenberg University) 2014-05-16 16:00: Flight of the fruit fly (Itai Cohen, Cornell University) 2014-05-19 19:30: Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Taste and Flavour (Professor Peter Barham, School of Physics, University of Bristol) 2014-05-20 11:00: Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt. (Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook)) 2014-05-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-21 13:00: Some problems concerning the dynamics of interfaces: (i) Marangoni motions of soluble surfactants and (ii) Bubble bursting at a compound interface (Howard Stone, Princeton University) 2014-05-22 10:30: Adaptation, coding and Bayesian computations in single neurons and neural populations (Alessandro Ticchi, Imperial College London) 2014-05-22 14:00: A scalable approach to the design of large networks (Richard Pates, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-22 14:00: Inclination analysis can yield early-warning signals of economic recessions (Alena Puchkova (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-22 14:30: (At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome. (Professor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen ) 2014-05-22 15:00: Branch Consistency or how to design a version controlled database (Thomas Gazagnaire (University of Cambridge)) 2014-05-22 15:00: On designing robust cost functions – applications to pattern analysis (Dr. Rozenn Dahyot, Assistant Professor in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin) 2014-05-22 15:00: A Collapsible Approach to Higher Order Verification (Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London) 2014-05-22 15:00: Advanced Gaussian Process approximation methods (Dr. Richard Turner, Thang Bui) 2014-05-22 16:00: Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Control in Mammals (Dr. Duncan Odom - Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute at University of Cambridge.) 2014-05-23 10:00: Computer Vision for Movie Making and Infographics (Chris Bregler, NYU & ILM) 2014-05-23 11:00: Algebra of Parameterised Graphs (Andrey Mokhov, Newcastle University) 2014-05-23 12:00: Advanced Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing Approaches and Recent Trends towards Joint Syntactic and Morphologic Disambiguation (Bernd Bohnet, University of Birmingham) 2014-05-23 13:15: Mechanisms controlling primary germ layers specification in human (Ludovic Vallier, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-23 14:00: Biomolecular machines on and of DNA (Professor Dr Ralf Seidel, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Germany) 2014-05-23 14:00: Atomistic studies of interfacial failure in optical multilayer coatings (Dr Paul Bristowe, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy) 2014-05-23 16:00: Simple geometries and unusual (multiphase) flow phenomena (Howard Stone, Princeton University) 2014-05-27 17:30: Gradient methods for huge-scale optimization problems (Prof Yurii Nesterov, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) 2014-05-28 16:00: Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy (Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA) 2014-05-28 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-05-29 14:00: SCATTERING CONVOLUTION NETWORKS and DUAL-TREE WAVELETS (Prof. Nick Kingsbury, Signal Processing and Communications Group, CUED) 2014-05-29 15:00: I'm the repro man: a rant and some incremental improvements on reproducibility in systems research (Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews)) 2014-05-29 15:00: ​​Time-varying dynamic Bayesian network reconstruction with information sharing​ (Frank Dondelinger ) 2014-05-29 16:00: GL Brown Lecture: Calcium in the heart: from physiology to disease (Professor David Eisner - Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester) 2014-05-30 12:00: Robust multilingual syntactic parsing (Ryan McDonald, Google) 2014-05-30 13:15: Good night and good luck: the role of sleep in dementia (Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2014-05-30 14:00: Reverse Engineering the Forces that Drive Embryogenesis (Professor G. Wayne Brodland, University of Waterloo) 2014-05-30 14:00: Tuning Protein Aggregation Pathways by Charges (Prof. Dr. Frank Schreiber, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen, Germany) 2014-05-30 16:00: Heterogeneity in lahars and debris flows (Chris Johnson, University of Bristol) 2014-05-30 16:00: Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction (Prof. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute) 2014-06-02 11:00: Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence? (Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley)) 2014-06-02 15:00: Unsynchronized Visual Communication (Wenjun Hu (Yale University)) 2014-06-02 19:30: Should We Engineer The Climate? The SPICE Project (Dr Hugh Hunt, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-03 11:00: Bayesian monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley)) 2014-06-03 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge)) 2014-06-04 18:20: What is Life? A philosophical perspective (Samir Okasha, University of Bristol) 2014-06-04 18:50: Why the origin of life had to be inorganic (Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow) 2014-06-04 19:20: Astrobiology: the search for life on other worlds (Lewis Dartnell, University College London) 2014-06-05 11:15: Authoring in the Fluidic group of projects (Antranig Basman, University of Colorado at Boulder) 2014-06-05 12:00: Grammatical error correction using hybrid systems and type filtering (Mariano Felice, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge) 2014-06-05 12:30: Looking for hyponyms in vector space (Marek Rei, SwiftKey ) 2014-06-05 13:00: Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing with a Dependency Model (Wenduan Xu, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-05 15:00: The CHERI capability model: Revisiting RISC in an age of risk (Jonathan Woodruff (University of Cambridge)) 2014-06-05 16:00: The first heart beat: initiation of cardiac contractile activity (Dr. Shankar Srinivas - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics - University of Oxford) 2014-06-05 18:30: Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden (Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden) 2014-06-06 12:00: Multilingual Models for Distributed Semantics (Karl Moritz Hermann, Oxford University) 2014-06-06 14:00: Novel energetic materials based on intermetallic reactions (Dr Chris Braithwaite, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-06-06 16:00: Instability of a two-layer density front in a rotating stratified fluid (Jan-Bert Flor, LEGI-CNRS Grenoble) 2014-06-10 11:00: Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian Processes (Roman Garnett, University of Bonn) 2014-06-10 13:00: Droplet splashing (Michael Brenner, Harvard University) 2014-06-11 11:00: Compressible priors for high-dimensional statistics (Prof. Volkan Cevher, EPFL) 2014-06-11 15:30: Vehicular App Development: Opportunities and Challenges (Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology)) 2014-06-11 16:30: Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-06-12 11:00: Sonocytology: Manipulation and Sensing Particles (Dr Anne Bernassau, University of Glasgow) 2014-06-12 14:30: The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions. (Professor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna ) 2014-06-12 15:00: Engineering a Market: Concepts and Research on the HAT (Irene Ng (University of Warwick)) 2014-06-12 15:00: Unsupervised Representation Learning (Amar Shah (University of Cambridge)) 2014-06-12 16:00: The Reward Prediction Error of Dopamine Neurons: What information does it convey and how is it generated? (Dr. Christopher D. Fiorillo - Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST - Daejeon, Korea) 2014-06-13 12:00: The Cancer Genome Atlas: oncogenic signature classes and the design of combinatorial therapy (Chris Sander (MSKCC)) 2014-06-13 14:00: Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences (Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London) 2014-06-13 14:00: Flexible Metal Forming: A Mathematical Perspective (Dr Chris Cawthorn, DAMTP) 2014-06-13 14:00: Signal Processing via Sampled-Data Control - A Challenge to Go Beyond Shannon (Professor Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University) 2014-06-13 14:00: Helping 10% of the people to read and write better (Luz Rello, University Pompeu Fabra) 2014-06-13 16:00: Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics (Robert Brady, Computer Laboratory) 2014-06-16 09:00: Tips and Tools for Scientific Research Success (Speaker to be Confirmed ) 2014-06-16 14:00: Geo-replicated storage with scalable deferred update replication (Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano) 2014-06-16 19:30: Noise in audio and electronics (Dr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge) 2014-06-17 15:00: A fast and robust algorithm to count topologically persistent holes in noisy clouds. (Dr Vitaliy Kurlin) 2014-06-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.)) 2014-06-18 14:00: Nanotopographical (and other nano stuff) control of mesenchymal stem cell mechanotransduction and fate (Dr Matthew Dalby, University of Glasgow) 2014-06-19 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Torben Jess (University of Cambridge)) 2014-06-19 15:00: AWARE: Human & Social Context For Wellbeing (Denzil Ferreira (University of Oulu)) 2014-06-19 18:30: Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre (Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge) 2014-06-20 09:00: Games, Learning and Markets Workshop (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-06-23 11:00: Incoming.tv - Improving User Experience of Mobile Video through predictive prefetching (Max Ott (NICTA)) 2014-06-23 16:00: Symbiotic Relations: Control Theory and Practice (Professor Keith Glover, University of Cambridge) 2014-06-24 10:00: A Modular Integration of SAT/SMT Solvers to Coq through Proof Witnesses (Chantal Keller) 2014-06-24 16:30: A multi-function approach to passivity-based control: The linear case. (Dr Fernando Castanos, Cinvestav Mexico) 2014-06-26 15:00: Factors associated with time to diagnosis and stage at diagnosis for lung and colorectal cancer: results from a prospective cohort study (Dr Fiona Walter (University of Cambridge)) 2014-06-27 10:30: Local Temporal Reasoning (Eric Koskinen, New York University) 2014-06-30 14:00: Tracking the odd: Meter inference in musical audio using particle filters (Dr Andre Holzapfel, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul) 2014-06-30 16:00: Spectral Edge Image Fusion: Theory and Applications (Mark S Drew, School of COmputing Science, Simon Fraser University) 2014-07-01 11:00: Scalable Deep Gaussian Processes (James Hensman (University of Sheffield)) 2014-07-01 11:00: How to Write a Great Research Paper (Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2014-07-01 16:00: Nervous system variability and robustness from cellular feedback control (Tim O'Leary, Brandeis University) 2014-07-02 11:00: Implicit Representation Networks (David Barber (University College London)) 2014-07-03 11:00: Enriching Electronic Textbooks (Krishnaram Kenthapadi (MSR SVC)) 2014-07-03 14:00: The Once and Future Internet (Jon Crowcroft, Computer Lab) 2014-07-03 15:30: How to Give a Great Research Talk (Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2014-07-03 17:00: The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space (Professor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago)) 2014-07-04 11:00: Sampling Theory of Large Graphs (John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong)) 2014-07-08 14:00: Use of Recommender Systems for Industrial Data Management (Vijay Dodwani (IIT Bombay)) 2014-07-08 14:00: Robust Model Predictive Control with Waysets (Rohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne) 2014-07-08 14:00: FSCL: homogeneous programming and execution for heterogeneous platforms (Gabriele Cocco, Biobeats) 2014-07-09 11:00: Practical Techniques for Auto-Active Verification (Nadia Polikarpova, ETH Zurich) 2014-07-10 10:00: Steps toward usable verification (Francesco Logozzo, MSR Redmond) 2014-07-10 11:00: The Brave New World of Next-Generation NoSQL Data Stores (Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University) 2014-07-10 15:00: Daily Habits of Happy People: Accelerometers (Neal Lathia (University of Cambridge)) 2014-07-11 10:00: Image representation for synthesis and recognition using multilinear algebra (Demetri Terzopoulos, Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory, University of California) 2014-07-11 14:00: Mechanical properties of highly particle-filled composites (Prof Pengwan Chen, Head of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology) 2014-07-14 11:00: Network-Design Sensitivity Analysis (Matthew Roughan (University of Adelaide)) 2014-07-16 10:00: Environmental challenges to the implementation of ceramic composites in gas turbines (Carlos G. Levi, Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara) 2014-07-16 11:00: Gaussian process regression on graphs (Peter Sollich (King's College London)) 2014-07-17 11:15: Two talks on visual analytics (Advait Sarkar, Rainbow Group) 2014-07-17 15:00: Better Strategies for Data Collection in Sensor Networks (Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of The Negev)) 2014-07-17 15:00: Performance-driven TCO evaluation for decision-making support in physical asset management (Irene Roda (Politecnico di Milano)) 2014-07-18 12:00: Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time Expressions (Jesse Dodge, CMU) 2014-07-18 14:00: Software Model for Preventive Maintenance (Shiven Rastogi (IIT Delhi)) 2014-07-19 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Lior Weizman, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology) 2014-07-21 10:00: Byte Night Cambridge (Michelle Lamprecht, MathWorks) 2014-07-23 16:30: Statistics Clinic - Summer I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-07-23 18:00: Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine (James Grime) 2014-07-24 10:00: A Verified Compiler for Probability Density Functions (Tobias Nipkow, Institute of Informatics Technical Institute of Munich) 2014-07-24 15:00: Consistency and Reliability in Cloud-backed Storage Systems (Alysson Bessani (University of Lisbon) ) 2014-07-24 15:00: Building a national Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Registration Service (Christine Harvey, Congenital Anomaly and Rare Disease Register) 2014-07-31 14:00: The application of compressed sensing for longitudinal MRI (Dr Lior Weizman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) 2014-07-31 14:00: Valuing Information using Prediction Markets (Martyna Sikora (Queen Mary University)) 2014-07-31 15:00: Modeling, Specifying, and Verifying X86 Hardware and Software (Anna Slobodova (Centaur Technology) and Warren Hunt (University of Texas Austin)) 2014-08-01 12:00: Distributional semantics and beyond: Composition, generation and alignment (Georgiana Dinu, University of Trento) 2014-08-05 11:00: FsLab: Doing data science with F# (Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge) 2014-08-07 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Ella Peltonen (University of Helsinki)) 2014-08-11 11:00: On the Bethe approximation (Adrian Weller (Columbia University)) 2014-08-12 10:00: The Integral Image Method for Fisheye Images (Maria Mikhisor, Department of Computer Science, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand) 2014-08-12 14:00: Ideas for the FireBox Software Stack (Martin Maas (UC Berkeley)) 2014-08-12 14:00: Systems, Science and FreeBSD (George Neville-Neil, Neville-Neil Consulting) 2014-08-14 14:00: Dynamic Response of Coatings on Substrates Subjected to Impulse Loading (Professor Matthew Begley, Mechanical Engineering Materials University of California, Santa Barbara) 2014-08-15 12:00: Unsupervised learning of rhetorical structure with un-topic models (Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge) 2014-08-15 12:30: Detecting Learner Errors in the Choice of Content Words Using Compositional Distributional Semantics (Ekaterina Kochmar, University of Cambridge) 2014-08-18 11:00: Computational Video: Methods for Video Segmentation and Video Stabilization, and their Applications. (Irfan Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology) 2014-08-20 16:30: Statistics Clinic - Summer II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-08-26 14:00: Controller Design of a Grid-tie Inverter to Enhance Fault-Ride-Through Capability (Yoshito Ohta, Kyoto University) 2014-08-26 15:00: Computational Neuroscience for Technology: Event-based Vision Sensors and Information Processing (Dr Jorg Conradt, Institute of Automation and Control Engineering, TU Munich) 2014-08-27 14:00: The Architecture of Innovation: Tracking Face-to-Face Interactions with UbiComp Technologies (Christos Efstratiou (University of Kent)) 2014-08-28 11:00: Towards Zero Latency Photonic Switching (Dr Philip Watss, UCL) 2014-09-03 15:00: Representing microbial communities in Earth system models (Dr Steve Allison, University of California) 2014-09-04 10:00: Compositional Models (Alan Yuille, UCLA) 2014-09-04 11:00: Beyond Mindless Labeling: *Really* Leveraging Humans to Build Intelligent Machines (Devi Parikh, Virginia Tech) 2014-09-04 11:15: Summer projects (Vlad Gavrila, Sam Haines & Mariusz Różycki) 2014-09-04 14:00: Hedging Against Uncertainty via Multiple Diverse Predictions (Dhruv Batra, Virginia Tech) 2014-09-05 10:30: End of Internship Talk: F# Type Providers: DBpedia and the Combinator Framework (Andrew Stevenson, PPT Intern) 2014-09-11 10:00: Micro-Policies: A Framework for Tag-Based Security Monitors (Benjamin C. Pierce, University of Pennsylvania) 2014-09-11 11:00: Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging community (Philipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen)) 2014-09-11 19:00: "Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!" How Chemistry Changed the First World War (Dr Michael Freemantle) 2014-09-12 11:00: Unsupervised Many-to-many Object Matching (Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT)) 2014-09-12 12:00: Language and Demographics on Twitter: Inferring Latent User Attributes from Streaming Communications (Svitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University) 2014-09-15 11:00: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India)) 2014-09-15 16:00: Therapeutic landscape of cancer drivers (Nuria Lopez-Bigas) 2014-09-16 10:00: A Study of Certain Models of Synaptic Plasticity in the Cerebellum and Neocortex (David Higgins (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)) 2014-09-16 11:15: Design of Polyhedral Meshes (Amir Vaxman, TU Vienna) 2014-09-17 11:00: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India)) 2014-09-17 16:30: Statistics Clinic - Summer III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-09-22 16:00: Discovery and allele frequency estimation of somatic twilight zone insertions and deletions (Alexander Schönhuth (CWI Amsterdam)) 2014-09-24 11:00: A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture models (Maria Lomeli-Garcia (Gatsby Unit, UCL)) 2014-09-25 11:00: New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine Learning (Jasper Snoek (Harvard University)) 2014-09-25 15:00: The Brain Tumour Patient Information Portal - 12 months on (Sarah Stevens, Public Health Consultant, NHS Bedfordshire CCG) 2014-09-26 11:00: A Case for using Trend Filtering over Splines (Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University ) 2014-09-29 09:30: CASIM VI: Discussion 1 - Local Computational Resources and Issues (Led by Misha Kapushesky (Genestack), Aylwyn Scally (Genetics), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute)) 2014-09-29 11:00: CASIM VI: Discussion 2 - Long Read / New Technologies (Led by Rory Stark (CRUK Cambridge Institute), David Jackson (WT Sanger Institute)) 2014-09-29 11:45: CASIM VI: Rising stars 1 - Data Analysis and Data Sharing Methods (Chaired by Richard Smith-Unna) 2014-09-29 13:30: CASIM VI: Discussion 3 - Single Cell Sequencing (Led by Simon Andrews (Babraham Institute), Boris Adryan (CSBC), Misha Kapushesky (Genestack)) 2014-09-29 14:15: CASIM VI: Rising stars 2 - Sequencing Applications in Health and Disease (Chaired by Jelena Aleksic, WT/MRC Stem Cell Institute) 2014-09-29 15:30: CASIM VI: Keynote Address - Using Hi-C to Determine 3-D Structures of Whole Genomes in Single Cells (Tim Stevens, Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2014-10-01 14:00: On the geometry of maximum entropy problems (Professor Michele Pavon, University of Padova) 2014-10-01 16:00: Discursis: A Computational Methodology for the Analysis of Communication Data (Dr Daniel Angus, The University of Queensland) 2014-10-02 14:00: Horizon 2020 Opportunities in Big Data (Renata Schaeffer, European Policy Manager, Research Operations Office) 2014-10-03 10:00: Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep? (Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research ) 2014-10-03 15:00: NetCheck: Network Diagnoses from Blackbox Traces (Justin Cappos (NYU)) 2014-10-06 13:00: First-person Hyperlapse Videos (Johannes Kopf, Microsoft Research ) 2014-10-06 16:00: Modelling the transcriptional response to ER signalling in breast cancer cells (Magnus Rattray (Manchester)) 2014-10-07 10:00: A link between lambda calculus and maps (Noam Zeilberger, MSR-INRIA Joint Centre) 2014-10-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2014-10-08 15:00: Dynamic pricing in social networks: The Word of Mouth effect (Ali Jadbabaie Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science, University of Pennsylvania) 2014-10-09 10:00: Lottery Auctions (Nicola Dimitri, Department of Political Economy & Statistics, University of Siena, Ital) 2014-10-09 11:00: RDFox — A Modern Materialisation-Based RDF System (Boris Motik, Oxford University) 2014-10-09 14:00: Logic programming beyond Prolog (Maarten van Emden, University of Victoria, Canada) 2014-10-09 15:00: A crowdsourced approach for mobile sensing: How distributed data mining meets mobile devices (Ella Peltonen (University of Helsinki)) 2014-10-09 15:00: Ancient lives, new discoveries: eight mummies, eight lives, eight stories (Dr Daniel Antoine, Curator of Physical Anthropology, British Museum) 2014-10-09 16:00: A Deadly Game of “Tag”: Insect Aerial Predation as a Model for Sensorimotor Processing (Dr. Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience) 2014-10-09 19:00: Are we star dust or nuclear waste? Astronomy lecture (Dr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) 2014-10-10 12:00: Internal Seminar 1 (NLIP Speakers) 2014-10-10 16:00: The Art & Science of Sculpturing Fluids (Jean-Marc Chomaz: Ecole Polytechnique) 2014-10-13 16:00: Faithful Reproduction of Network Experiments (Dimosthenis Pediaditakis (University of Cambridge)) 2014-10-13 16:30: The neuroeconomics of complex social valuation (Colin Camerer. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA) 2014-10-13 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe (Professor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA) 2014-10-14 09:30: Sensory processing in neocortical networks: randomness, specificity and learning (Sadra Sadeh, Imperial College, London, UK) 2014-10-15 13:15: Mobile Application Development at Bloomberg (Denis Kim, Bloomberg) 2014-10-15 14:00: Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants (Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory) 2014-10-15 16:30: Statistics Clinic I - Michaelmas 2014 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-10-15 17:15: The Digital Agenda for Europe: More Innovative, More Sustainable, More Inclusive? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-10-15 19:00: Informal discussion on "Small and Large Challenges in Engineering the Biosphere" (Prof. Andrew Fire (Stanford University School of Medicine)) 2014-10-16 13:15: Spanner: Google’s Planet-Spanning Database (Siamak Tazari, Google) 2014-10-16 14:00: Maintenance Optimisation (Zhengling Liang) 2014-10-16 14:00: Nonlinear Consensus and Formation Control for Switching Topologies (Johan Thunberg, University of Luxembourg) 2014-10-16 14:30: C. elegans development: getting the seams right and living a balanced life. (Professor Alison Woollard, Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford) 2014-10-16 15:00: Modelling a Community's Health and Mobility Patterns with Mobile Phone Data (Katayoun Farrahi (Goldsmiths, University of London)) 2014-10-16 16:00: Cyclic Nucleotides and Neural Control of Cardiac Excitability in Cardiovascular Disease (Professor David Paterson, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics) 2014-10-17 12:00: Creative Coding in Education (Sam Aaron (University of Cambridge)) 2014-10-17 14:00: Generalized Grain Cluster Method for Multiscale Modelling of Microstructures (Professor Akke Suiker, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) 2014-10-17 14:00: What is Biological Adaptation and How Can it be Measured? (Dr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge ) 2014-10-17 16:00: Walking grains, rolling colloids and swimming droplets: How universal active matter really is? (Olivier Dauchot: ESPCI) 2014-10-20 10:00: An Approximate Differentiable Renderer (Matthew Loper; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) 2014-10-20 10:45: Robust Distance Queries on Massive Networks (Milan Vojnovic) 2014-10-20 16:00: Dissecting translation efficiency through lab evolution, genome engineering and inspection of the cancerous genome (Yitzhak Pilpel (Weizmann Institute, Israel)) 2014-10-20 16:30: Inhibition and adaptationin the outer retina - Intiguing synaptic mechanisms with unexpected molecular players (Maarten Kamermans, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) 2014-10-20 19:00: The Spark of Life: the story of ion channels (Prof. Frances Ashcroft (University of Oxford)) 2014-10-20 19:30: Learning to Remember: How should we teach history? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-10-21 14:30: Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective. (Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and UCL London) 2014-10-21 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2014-10-22 11:00: The Wireless Ecosystem – An ICT4D Perspective (Marco Zennaro (ICTP)) 2014-10-22 12:00: "Out There" (Alex Taylor, Human Experience & Design Group, Microsoft Research) 2014-10-22 13:15: Haxl: Efficient Data-fetching for Free (Simon Marlow, Facebook) 2014-10-22 14:00: Population genetic models of evolution (Dr Chris Illingworth, Department of Genetics, Cambridge) 2014-10-22 14:00: Reasoning about GADT Pattern Matching in Haskell (George Karachalias, Ghent University) 2014-10-22 17:30: How governing has become harder-- the increasing external, and self-imposed constraints on governments (The Rt Hon Peter Riddell CBE) 2014-10-23 11:15: Rainbow group update (Members of the Rainbow group) 2014-10-23 12:00: First Step toward Neural Machine Translation (Kyunghyun Cho, University of Montreal) 2014-10-23 14:00: A Tutorial on Probabilistic Programming (Prof. Frank Wood (Oxford)) 2014-10-23 14:00: Sequential Monte Carlo for graphical models: Graph decompositions and Divide-and-Conquer SMC (Dr Fredrik Lindsten, CUED) 2014-10-23 14:30: Organisation and Regulation of DNA supercoiling domains in Mammalian Chromatin. (Professor Nick Gilbert, MRC Human Genetics Unit, The University of Edinburgh) 2014-10-23 15:00: 1) Mining Users' Significant Driving Routes with Low-power Sensors 2) DSP.Ear: Leveraging Co-Processor Support for Continuous Audio Sensing on Smartphones (Sarfraz Nawaz and Petko Georgiev (University of Cambridge)) 2014-10-23 15:00: What Might a Lung Cancer Screening Programme in the UK Look Like? (Stephen Duffy, Professor of Cancer Screening at Queen Mary College) 2014-10-24 13:15: Bridging cell-cell contact and cell fate in the early mouse embryo (Chuen Yan Leung (Zernicka-Goetz lab), PDN, University of Cambridge) 2014-10-24 14:00: The complexity, modularity and evolution of self-assembling structures in biology (Dr Sebastian Ahnert, TCM, Cavendish Laboratory) 2014-10-24 14:30: Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys (Professor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL) 2014-10-24 14:30: Quantitative Prediction of Solute Strengthening in Metal Alloys (Professor William Curtin, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL) 2014-10-24 16:00: A Look at the Consequences of Internet Censorship Through an ISP Lens (Sheharbano Khattak (Cambridge University)) 2014-10-24 16:00: Convective mass transfer from a viscous droplet into a thin falling film for cleaning purposes (Julien Landel: DAMTP) 2014-10-27 13:15: EVi (An Amazon Company) Tech Talk - Answering any question, in any language, in one second or less (William Tunstall-Pedoe, Evi) 2014-10-27 16:00: Targeting the brain tumour stem cell phenotype with small molecules (Heiko Wurdak (Leeds)) 2014-10-27 18:00: Perception and belief in psychosis (Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry) 2014-10-29 13:15: Real world lessons from building a search engine for ecommerce (Dhruv Kumar and Shaun Hall, The Hut Group) 2014-10-29 14:00: Computational analyses of high-throughput spatial proteomics data (Dr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.) 2014-10-29 16:30: Statistics Clinic II - Michaelmas 2014 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-10-29 19:00: Active and Passive Immunization against Infectious Disease (Prof. Peter Lachmann (Veterinary Medicine)) 2014-10-30 11:15: Reading User Intentions: Predictive and Proactive Multimodal Interfaces (T. Metin Sezgin (Koç University)) 2014-10-30 14:00: Fault-Tolerant Predictive Control: A Gaussian Process Model Based Approach (Xiaoke Yang, University of Cambridge) 2014-10-30 14:30: Understanding mechanisms of long-range gene regulation. (Dr Greg Elgar, Systems Biology, MRC NIMR, London ) 2014-10-30 15:00: End-to-End Performance Isolation through Virtual Datacenters (Hitesh Ballani (MSR Cambridge)) 2014-10-30 15:00: Kernel Embedding for Distributions (Mark van der Wilk; Felipe Tobar) 2014-10-30 16:00: Collective Cell Migration: A Cellular, Molecular & Modelling Approach (Professor Roberto Mayor, UCL, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology) 2014-10-31 12:00: Internal Seminar 2 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-10-31 13:15: The Zebrafish Mutation Project (Derek Stemple, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge) 2014-10-31 14:00: Multiresolution shape and topology optimisation of shells and solids (Dr Fehmi Cirak, CUED) 2014-10-31 16:00: Stability and breakup of liquid threads (Jens Eggers: Bristol University) 2014-11-03 14:00: Taming GPU threads with F# and Alea.GPU (Dr Daniel Egloff, QuantAlea AG) 2014-11-03 16:00: Whole-genome sequencing of cell-free DNA in maternal plasma (Dineika Chandrananda ) 2014-11-03 19:30: Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes. (Prof. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2014-11-04 13:00: The case for a Computational Neurolinguistics (Brian Murphy, Queen's University Belfast) 2014-11-04 13:15: Functional Languages and Financial Models: an Insight into Graph Programming (Chris Andrews, Morgan Stanley) 2014-11-04 14:00: Statistical Change Detection for Prognosis and Diagnosis (Professor Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark) 2014-11-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-05 10:00: On Basing One-Way Functions on NP-Hardness (Christina Brzuska, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2014-11-05 13:15: Building the news search engine (Ram Aiyengar, Bloomberg) 2014-11-05 14:00: High-content microscopy: big-data biology goes spatio-temporal (Dr Anatole Chessel, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.) 2014-11-05 17:30: The Great War and the British Problem, 1914-2014 (Professor David Reynolds) 2014-11-05 19:00: Internship Event (Sally Todd, Careers Service and student speakers) 2014-11-06 11:15: Presentations by Marwa Mahmoud & Erroll Wood (Marwa Mahmoud & Erroll Wood) 2014-11-06 14:00: Importance Sampling with Particle Flows (Dr Pete Bunch, Cambridge University) 2014-11-06 14:00: Information, Big Data and Performance Measurement (Gerry Frizelle (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-06 14:30: Regulation of Notch signalling by the endosomal pathway. (Professor Dr. Thomas Klein, Institute of Genetics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) 2014-11-06 15:00: A random walk through open data and more (Laura James (Open Knowledge Foundation)) 2014-11-06 15:00: State Space Abstraction for Reinforcement Learning (Rowan McAllister; Thang Bui) 2014-11-06 16:00: Cell Migration & Gradient Sensing: Lessons from Zebrafish Neutrophils (Dr Milka Sarris, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience / Cambridge Immunology Network) 2014-11-06 19:00: As if by Magic...... Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture (Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London)) 2014-11-07 12:00: The Theory and Practice of Compositional Distributed Semantics (Stephen Clark) 2014-11-07 13:15: A blueprint for cell fate: Network biology applied to stem cell engineering (Samantha Morris (George Daley lab), Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School) 2014-11-07 14:00: Design of microstructures for enhanced magnetostriction in active composites (Professor Pedro Ponte, University of pennsylvania, School of Engineering and Applied Science) 2014-11-07 14:00: Enhancing single-molecule detection with DNA origami nanostructures (Prof. Dr. Philip Tinnefeld, Institut für Physikalische & Theoretische Chemie TU Braunschweig) 2014-11-07 16:00: Extreme deformation of complex fluid interfaces (Valeria Garbin: Imperial College) 2014-11-10 10:30: Chaos and entropy production in spiking networks (Rainer Engelken) 2014-11-10 18:00: The changing genome: signatures of mutagenesis in human cells (Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sangar Institute) 2014-11-11 19:00: Breast cancer- tackling 10 diseases (Prof. Carlos Caldas (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)) 2014-11-12 13:00: High Performance Computing: Use of large CPU grids, GPUs and supercomputers for financial computation. (Michael Elliott and Andrey Zhezherun, JPMorgan ) 2014-11-12 14:00: Kafka and Samza: distributed stream processing in practice (Martin Kleppmann - LinkedIn) 2014-11-12 14:00: Using human genome variation to study history and cellular function (Dr Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.) 2014-11-12 14:00: The Physical Web (Scott Jenson, Google) 2014-11-12 16:30: Statistics Clinic III - Michaelmas 2014 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-11-12 18:30: Super-resolution imaging: Getting and understanding microscopy images with more details (Leila Muresan, Martin Lenz (Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre)) 2014-11-13 11:15: The Digital Heritage Demonstrator Project at Birmingham University (Simon Hartley (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-13 14:00: @ is for Activism and Beyond (Joss Hands, Reader in Media and Critical Theory, Department of English and Media, Anglia Ruskin University) 2014-11-13 14:30: The memory of retinal stem cells? (Professor Jochen Wittbrodt, COS Heidelberg, Heidelberg University) 2014-11-13 15:00: Holistic GC: Coordinating Garbage Collection across Rack-scale Systems (Tim Harris (Oracle Lab)) 2014-11-13 15:00: Automatic Differentiation with Theano (Yarin Gal; Christof Angermueller) 2014-11-13 16:00: Fronto-subcortical Circuits in Cognition & Emotion: Modulation by Serotonin, Dopamine and Glutamate (Dr Hannah Clarke, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2014-11-14 11:00: Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometers (Prof. Naonori Ueda (Director Machine Learning and Data Science, NTT Labs)) 2014-11-14 12:00: Exploratory Search and Trend Detection (Gerhard Heyer, Universität Leipzig) 2014-11-14 13:15: Unreliable organizers: Canalization and robustness in C. elegans vulva development (Jeroen van Zon, FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam) 2014-11-14 13:15: Silicon swords to software ploughshares: the software networking revolution (Simon Chatterjee, Ensoft Ltd) 2014-11-14 14:00: Hydrogen uptake and diffusion – implications for evaluating resistance to hydrogen embrittlement (Dr Alan Turnbull, National Physical Laboratory) 2014-11-14 14:00: On growth and flow: bacterial biofilms in porous environments (Mack Durham, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford) 2014-11-14 15:00: Automated Pavement Condition Monitoring (Stefania Radopoulou - PhD) 2014-11-14 16:00: Macroscopic theory for head-on binary droplet collisions in a gaseous medium (Jie Li: BPI, Cambridge University) 2014-11-17 12:00: Modulation spectrum-based approach to high-quality statistical parametric speech synthesis (Shinnosuke Takamichi (NAIST, Japan)) 2014-11-17 19:30: The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligence (Prof. Nicky Clayton FRS, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge and Clive Wilkins) 2014-11-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-18 16:30: Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture Series - Technological Innovation in Healthcare (Professor The Lord Darzi of Denham PC KBE FRS FMedSci HonFREng) 2014-11-19 13:00: Ensembl Plants: Visualising, mining and analysing crop genomics data (Dan Bolser, Ensembl Plants Project Leader, EMBL-EBI ) 2014-11-19 13:15: Can we make light travel faster please? (Yelp) 2014-11-19 14:00: Scientific Data Management (Dr Thomas Heinis - Imperial College London) 2014-11-19 14:00: Biological Databases: More than just stamp collections. (Dr Alex Bateman, European Bioinformatics Institute.) 2014-11-19 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Could computers understand their own programs? (Professor Sir Tony Hoare FRS FREng) 2014-11-20 11:15: Isotropic triangle meshing of NURBS model (Jingjing Shen (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-20 14:00: Organizing circuits and biological behaviors (Dr Alessio Franci, University of Cambridge and University of Liege) 2014-11-20 14:00: Butterfly resampling - convergence and central limit theorems for particle filters with constrained interactions (Dr Kari Heine, University of Bristol) 2014-11-20 14:30: Large scale genomic analyses of complex traits in human populations. (Dr Nicole Soranzo, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton) 2014-11-20 15:00: Bridging the gap between networking and end-host computing (Noa Zilberman (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-20 15:00: LSTM and Recurrent Neural Networks (Shixiang Gu; Andrey Malinin) 2014-11-20 16:00: Self-Organisation of Pluripotent Cells in the Mouse Embryo (Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, University of Cambridge, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience & Gurdon Institute) 2014-11-21 12:00: A Polya Urn Document Language Model for Information Retrieval (Ronan Cummins, University of Cambridge) 2014-11-21 13:15: Order out of chaos - how does membrane traffic help organise the cell? (Sean Munro, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2014-11-21 13:30: Syllable based keyword search: transducing syllable lattices to word lattices (Jim Hieronymus, ICSI (US)) 2014-11-21 14:00: CANCELLED - The transport of active swimmers in shear flows (Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool ) 2014-11-21 14:30: New functional surfaces: from science to application (Professor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken) 2014-11-21 14:30: New functional surfaces: from science to application (Professor Eduard Arzt, INM Saarbrueken) 2014-11-21 15:00: Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty to the public and policy-makers (Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk ) 2014-11-24 16:30: The Philippe Wiener Lecture. "From Human pluripotent stem cells to cortial circuits: towards brain disease modeling and repair." (Pierre Vanderhaeghen. Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Brussels, Belgium) 2014-11-24 18:00: MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare (Dr Andrew Flewitt, Department of Engineering) 2014-11-25 14:00: Information, Big Data and Performance Measurement (Gerry Frizelle (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-25 16:00: From proteins to plants: Using algorithmic information theory to study biological evolution and development (Dr Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge) 2014-11-26 11:00: Oracle Variational Inference (James McInerney (Columbia University)) 2014-11-26 11:00: STFC collaborative R&D funding (Dr Vlad Skarda, STFC External Innovations) 2014-11-26 12:00: Can information and communication technologies save the environment? (Professor Victor O.K. Li from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong) 2014-11-26 13:00: Lambda, the ultimate config format (David House, JaneStreet) 2014-11-26 14:00: Digital Discovery and Design: the new age of materials on demand (Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan) 2014-11-26 14:00: Multi-scale studies on transcription factors (Dr Boris Adryan, Department of Genetics) 2014-11-26 16:00: Trickle down in cities? An empirical analysis on the relation between the share of higher educated residents and employment growth for lower-educated in a panel of cities (Dr Roderik Ponds, University of Groningen) 2014-11-26 16:30: Statistics Clinic IV - Michaelmas 2014 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2014-11-26 16:30: Extreme pattern of genetic diversity in humans (Dr. Vincenza Colonna (Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Naples, Italy)) 2014-11-26 18:30: Creating transparent intact animal organs for high-resolution 3D deep-tissue imaging (Keith Siew (Centre for Clinical Investigation), Filipe Lourenco (Cancer Research UK)) 2014-11-26 19:00: PhD Information Event (Prof. Steve Russell (University of Cambridge), Dr. Tim Weil (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-27 10:00: Coping with the Intractability of Graphical Models (Justin Domke) 2014-11-27 11:15: Preparing good papers (The Rainbow Group) 2014-11-27 14:00: Making sense of linked electronic health records: examples from cardiovascular and psychiatric research (Katherine Morley, King's College London) 2014-11-27 14:00: Plug-and-Play Operation of Microgrids (Florian Dorfler, ETH Zurich) 2014-11-27 14:15: SMC Samplers for Applications in High Dimensions (Dr Alexandros Beskos, University College London) 2014-11-27 14:30: COMT: from single nucleotide polymorphism to whole brain function. (Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford) 2014-11-27 15:00: Life in the Slow Lane (Arjuna Sathiaseelan (University of Cambridge)) 2014-11-27 15:00: Reframing Cancer as an Acute Condition (Marie Louise Tørring (Danish Research Centre for Cancer Diagnosis in Primary Care)) 2014-11-27 15:00: PAC Bayes (Alex Matthews; Nikola Mrksic) 2014-11-28 10:30: Machine Translation with LSTMs (Ilya Sutskever (Google)) 2014-11-28 12:00: Composed, Distributed Reflections on Semantics and Statistical Machine Translation (Tim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne) 2014-11-28 12:00: Cluster Adaptive Training for Deep Neural Networks (Tian Tan (visitor at CUED)) 2014-11-28 13:15: Single molecule studies of mRNA localisation and motor activation (Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2014-11-28 13:15: Compile-time Instruction Scheduling for Modern ARM Processors - Low Level Design Enabling Performance In High Level Applications (James Greenhalgh, ARM) 2014-11-28 14:00: Impact perforation of polymers and polymer-metal laminates (Dr Graham McShane, CUED) 2014-11-28 14:00: Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences (Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London) 2014-11-28 16:00: Dynamic functional principal components (Siegfried Hörmann, Université libre de Bruxelles) 2014-11-28 16:00: Fluid-Solid interaction with flow: Do sound absorbers in aircraft engines generate turbulence? (Ed Brambley: DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2014-12-01 16:30: The Annual Adrian Lecture. "The flow of information underlying a tactile decision." (Dr Karel Svoboda. Janelia Farm, USA.) 2014-12-01 19:30: Building a Climate System Laboratory: Modelling the climate system. (Prof. Dame Julia Slingo DBE, Chief Scientist, UK Met Office) 2014-12-02 10:00: Bringing computer vision to the masses (David Moloney, CTO Movidius) 2014-12-02 12:00: In vivo function-based genomic approaches for cancer drug target discovery (Professor Daniel Peeper, Head, Division of Molecular Oncology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute) 2014-12-02 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.)) 2014-12-03 10:00: Platforms and Applications for "Big and Fast" Data Analytics (Yanlei Diao, UMass Amherst) 2014-12-03 13:00: Dynamics of visual perception and collective neural activity (Professor Jochen Braun, University of Magdeburg) 2014-12-03 14:00: Simulation Approaches to Biomolecular Recognition and Assembly (Dr Peter J Bond, Bioinformatics Institute (BII) A*STAR, Singapore.) 2014-12-03 16:00: 3D power Doppler ultrasound: applying image processing to assess placental function in the first trimester (Gordon Stephenson) 2014-12-03 16:00: Machine Learning in an Exchange Environment (R. Preston McAfee, Microsoft) 2014-12-03 17:30: Cambridge Cleantech: ‘$5 sensors will save the world’ - Discuss (Gary Atkinson, Director, Emerging Technologies, ARM) 2014-12-03 19:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Colin Russell (Department of Veterinary Medicine)) 2014-12-04 11:15: CAE Geometry: Engineering Models That Support Integrated, Automated Simulation (Dr Tom Cashman, TranscenData Europe) 2014-12-04 13:00: women@CL Talklets - Security (Jeunese Payne, Alice Hutchings and Sophie Van Der Zee, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2014-12-04 14:00: Doing Social Research with Social Media: The Question of Participation (Noortje Marres, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Goldsmiths) 2014-12-04 14:00: Order Picking Strategies for Intelligent Warehouse Operations (Wenrong Lu (University of Cambridge)) 2014-12-04 15:00: Deep Probabilistic Models (Wake/Sleep) (Yan Wu; David Barrett) 2014-12-04 15:00: CELAR+SCAN: Moving HPC to the cloud (Chris Smowton (University of Manchester, Cancer Research UK)) 2014-12-04 16:00: "Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Disease: Is It All In Our Head?": Elucidating Mechanisms of Central Metabolic Control (Dr Stefan Trapp, UCL, Centre for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Neuroscience) 2014-12-05 12:00: Mining the Social Web: A series of statistical NLP case studies (Vasileios Lampos) 2014-12-05 13:00: Enlightened Aging: How the Baby Boom Generation can change tomorrow's Long Old Age (Prof. Eric B Larson MD, MPH, MACP Vice President for Research, Group Health Executive Director and Senior Investigator Group Health Research Institute Professor of Medicine and Health Services University of Washington Seattle) 2014-12-05 13:15: Hedgehog signalling and cell polarity in killer lymphocytes (Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge) 2014-12-05 16:00: From suppression of fingering to wrinkly fingers under elastic membranes (Draga Pihler-Puzovic: University of Manchester) 2014-12-05 16:00: Tracking doses to material elements in radiotherapy treatment of cancer (Karl Harrison) 2014-12-08 10:00: Checking microarchitectural implementations of weak memory (Daniel Lustig, Princeton University) 2014-12-08 14:00: An embodied model of clause syntax (Alistair Knott, Dept of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand) 2014-12-09 09:00: Life Sciences & Society Seminars (See website for details of speakers) 2014-12-09 16:00: A ground state for cancer’ (Prof. Richard J. Gilbertson MRCP PhD, Scientific and Comprehensive Cancer Centre Director, Executive Vice President, Director of the Division of Brain Tumour Research - St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis) 2014-12-09 16:00: Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow Lecture: Admitting Uncertainty: On the Role of Probability in Finance (Foellmer, H (Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin)) 2014-12-10 14:00: Using big data to rethink the way we study social determinants of health (Dr. Alex Kogan ( Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2014-12-10 18:30: Apptimistic research: Studying well-being and behaviour change using sensor data from mobile phone apps (Gillian Sandstrom (Dept. Psychology), Neal Lathia (Dept. Computer Science), Felix Naughton (Dept. Public Health and Primary Care) ) 2014-12-11 15:00: First Impressions on the State of Cellular Data Connectivity in India (Zahir Koradia (IITB)) 2014-12-12 11:00: Using metagenomics to identify emerging viral pathogens, and RNA silencing to combat them (Luke Braidwood, Baulcombe Lab) 2014-12-12 15:00: Big data in genetic epidemiology: adventures in time and space (Dr Oliver Davis, UCL) 2014-12-15 10:00: Bedrock: A Software Development Ecosystem Inside a Proof Assistant (Adam Chlipala, MIT) 2014-12-15 10:00: The Blended Paradigm: A Bayesian Approach to Handling Outliers and Misspecified Models (Prof. Steven MacEachern (Ohio State University)) 2014-12-15 19:25: Prospects and Obstacles affecting Cell Replacement in Humans (Prof. Sir John Gurdon, Dept. Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2014-12-18 14:00: How can Public Health England's data be used to protect and improve the public's health through its secondary use for research, audit and service evaluation? (Rachael Brannan & James Freed, Public Health England) 2014-12-18 15:00: The National Cancer Registration Service - looking forward, looking back (Jem Rashbass, National Director of Disease Registration, Public Health England) 2014-12-18 16:30: Do U.S. Financial Regulators Listen to the Public? Testing the Regulatory Process with the RegRank algorithm (Kirilenko, A (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)) 2015-01-09 09:00: Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING (Organiser: Dr Silvia Vignolini) 2015-01-13 14:00: Single Password Authentication (Alptekin Küpçü, Assistant Professor, Cryptography, Security & Privacy Research Group, Koç University) 2015-01-14 11:30: Dynamic PDP vs. Dynamic POR: Are they really different? (Alptekin Kupcu, Koc University) 2015-01-14 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-01-15 14:30: Using zebrafish models to identify novel alleles affecting human behaviour- a proof of principle study using smoking as an example. (Dr Caroline Brennan, The School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of London ) 2015-01-15 15:00: Active Learning (Adrian Weller; Mateo Rojas Carulla) 2015-01-15 16:00: Inflammation-driven angiogenesis - organ fibrosis & the extracellular matrix (Dr Christian Stockmann, INSERM, Université Paris Descartes) 2015-01-15 16:00: Model-Based Prediction Augmented with Sensing Techniques for Battery Management Systems (Professor Anna G. Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan) 2015-01-16 10:00: Democratizing Electronics: Tools, Examples, and Contexts for Supporting the Construction of Personally-Meaningful Interactive Artifacts (David Mellis, MIT Media Lab) 2015-01-16 11:00: Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3) (Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2015-01-16 12:00: A New Corpus and Imitation Learning Framework for Context-Dependent Semantic Parsing (Andreas Vlachos, UCL) 2015-01-16 13:15: Polarization of ciliated node cells along the anterior-posterior axis by graded expression of Wnts and their inhibitors (Hiroshi Hamada, Osaka University, Japan) 2015-01-16 13:30: The Geometry of Machine Translation (Rory Waite (University of Cambridge)) 2015-01-16 14:00: An evolutionary perspective to systems and synthetic biology: From cellular networks to microbial communities (Dr Orkun Soyer, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick) 2015-01-16 14:00: Going for Gold (Professor Tom Welton, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London) 2015-01-16 16:00: On the use of non-local priors for joint high-dimensional estimation and selection (David Rossel, University of Warwick) 2015-01-16 17:30: Reprogramming Animal Development (Professor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge) 2015-01-19 16:30: How developmental origin determines microcircuit function in the hippocampus. (Rosa Cossart Institute for Neuroscence, Montpellier) 2015-01-19 19:30: Innovation in Practise (Prof. Andy Hopper, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2015-01-20 11:30: Transcriptional regulation during developmental transitions: a view from 3D (Eileen Furlong, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany) 2015-01-20 15:00: Computational Privacy: On the privacy-conscientious use of metadata (Yves-Alexandre de Montyoye (MIT Media Lab)) 2015-01-20 17:30: Privacy, public interest and the future of healthcare research (Dr Mark Taylor, Senior Law Lecturer and Programme Director for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics at the University of Sheffield) 2015-01-20 20:00: Copper with Light – the Prospects for Photonic-Enabled-Electronics (Prof Ian White, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2015-01-21 11:30: Relating Native Language Typology to Foreign Language Usage (Yevgeni Berzak) 2015-01-21 13:10: Modelling Every Body - How computer vision, machine learning, 3D modelling and graphics help people shop with confidence online. (Dr Yu Chen, Metail) 2015-01-21 14:00: There is no medicine except in the light of models (Dr Pietro Lio, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory) 2015-01-21 16:00: Neighbourhood change in suburban and ex-urban areas in the Paris metropolitan region: Property-level data and the neighbourhood problem(s) (1996-2012) (Professor Renaud Le Goix, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne) 2015-01-21 19:00: Methods for Lossless Data Compression (Lawrence Esswood, Churchill College) 2015-01-21 19:00: HPV vaccines – are they doing their job? (Prof. Margaret Stanley OBE, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) 2015-01-21 19:00: Unleashing the power of genomics in the clinic (Francesc Coll, Jelena Aleksic, Sergio Martínez Cuesta) 2015-01-22 13:00: Data Flow in Facebook iOS Application (Daria Stroganova, Facebook) 2015-01-22 14:30: Asymmetry in Drosophila neuroblasts: centrosomes & mRNA. (Dr Jens Januschke, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee ) 2015-01-22 15:00: Advanced HMC (Nilesh Tripuraneni; Adam Scibior) 2015-01-22 17:15: The Future of Education: Evidence and Technology in the Classrom (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-01-22 17:30: The Future of Economics and Public Policy (Dr Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge) 2015-01-22 18:30: The Internet of Things - Will it Change our Lives? (Hugo Fiennes, CEO and founder of Electric Imp) 2015-01-23 11:00: Experiments with Non-parametric Topic Models (Prof. Wray Buntine (Monash University)) 2015-01-23 12:00: Frontiers in Named Entity Recognition and Linking ( Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield) 2015-01-23 13:15: Cell-based modelling of epithelial morphogenesis: towards an integrative approach (Alexander Fletcher, Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford) 2015-01-23 14:00: Surgical Imaging, Biophotonics and Endoscopy (Dr Daniel Elson, Reader in Surgical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London) 2015-01-23 14:00: Crustal deformation and Earthquakes (Professor Jean-Phillipe Avouac, BP McKenzie Professor of Earth Sciences) 2015-01-23 15:00: Urban Social Media Demographics (Dhiraj Murthy, Sociology, Goldsmiths) 2015-01-23 16:00: Microorganism billiards (Jean-Luc Thiffeault (University of Wisconsin)) 2015-01-23 17:30: Development of an Athlete (Dr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist) 2015-01-26 10:00: Cutting tail latency in cloud data stores via adaptive replica selection (Marco Canini, Université catholique de Louvain) 2015-01-26 10:00: Genome-wide transcriptional control of blood cell type identity (Felicia Ng, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) 2015-01-26 14:00: The Vocabulary of Big Data (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-01-26 16:30: Molecular Mechanisms of Axon Branching and Synoptogenicsm in Fly and Frog CNS (Dietmar Schmucker. VIB Vesalius Research Centre, KULeuven) 2015-01-26 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motors (Professor Eugene Terentjev, Department of Physics) 2015-01-26 18:30: Cloud operating system for reproducible bioinformatics (Dr. Misha Kapushesky) 2015-01-27 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge)) 2015-01-27 16:30: CNN Seminar - Time Series meet Network Science (Dr Lucas Lacasa (School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University London)) 2015-01-27 17:00: An IDyOM Tutorial: Modelling Auditory Expectations (Dr Marcus Pearce - Queen Mary, University of London.) 2015-01-28 14:00: Interacting with Infrastructure: Home Networking and Beyond (Dr Richard Mortier - University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory) 2015-01-28 14:00: An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts. (Reinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research), Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich)) 2015-01-28 14:00: Mathematical Image Analysis for Cancer Research (Joana Grah, DAMTP) 2015-01-28 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-01-28 18:00: The organised mind: thinking straight in the age of information overload (Daniel J Levitin, James McGill Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal) 2015-01-28 18:00: DNA Sequencing and Other Applications of Engineered Protein Nanopores (Prof. Hagan Bayley FRS, Department of Chemistry, Oxford) 2015-01-29 12:00: Latent Branching Trees (Dr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham)) 2015-01-29 13:00: Causal Inference and Domain Adaptation (Jonas Peters, ETH Zurich) 2015-01-29 13:30: Data pseudonymisation for fuzzy patient matching (Brian Shand (National Cancer Registration Service)) 2015-01-29 14:00: A Bayesian approach to multicanonical Markov chain Monte Carlo (Dr Jes Frellsen, CBL, CUED) 2015-01-29 14:30: Imaging gene activity in living cells. (Dr Jonathan Chubb, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology and MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London) 2015-01-29 15:00: Transfer Learning (Yingzhen Li; Eddy Pei-Hao Su) 2015-01-29 15:00: Advanced Physical Layer Techniques for Wireless Multihop Networks (Adrian Loch (Technische Universität Darmstadt)) 2015-01-29 16:30: Laws of Programming with Concurrency (Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft) 2015-01-29 16:30: Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture - Laws of Programming with Concurrency (Sir Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research) 2015-01-30 12:00: Towards quantum algorithms for natural language processing (Will Zeng, University of Oxford) 2015-01-30 13:15: Genome-wide loss-of-function screening using the CRISPR-Cas9 system (Kosuke Yusa Wellcome, Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge) 2015-01-30 14:00: The transport of active swimmers in shear flows (Dr Rachel Bearon, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool ) 2015-01-30 14:00: Dynamics of fluid driven delamination and fracturing in elastic and magneto-elastic materials (Dr Jerome A Neufeld, BP Institute, Dept of Earth Sciences & Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics) 2015-01-30 14:00: Bayesian Fusion of Hyperspectral and Multispectral images (Qi Wei, University of Toulouse) 2015-01-30 16:00: Bayesian nonparametrics with heterogeneous data (Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia) 2015-01-30 16:00: Convective and absolute instabilities in eccentric Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille flow (Benoit Pier (Ecole Centrale Lyon)) 2015-01-30 17:30: The Development of Galaxies (Professor Richard Ellis, Caltech) 2015-02-02 13:00: Annual Keynote (title TBC) (Christian Fuchs, Professor of Social Media, Communication and Media Research Institute, Centre for Social Media Research, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster) 2015-02-02 16:30: Dissecting computations in the dopamine reward circuit (Naoshige Uchinda, Harvard University) 2015-02-02 17:00: Engineering at Microsoft Research - Open Evening (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-02-02 19:30: Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One (Prof. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering) 2015-02-03 10:00: Predictable and Dependable Low-power Wireless Networks (Marco Zimmerling, ETH Zurich) 2015-02-03 13:00: Manifold correspondence: a signal processing perspective (Michael Bronstein, USI Switzerland) 2015-02-03 15:00: Meta-Interpretive Learning and Program Induction (Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College, London) 2015-02-04 14:00: Genomics of transcription factor redundancy (Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics, Cambridge) 2015-02-04 14:30: The Turing trap. How the universal computer is making the internet less secure. (Will Harwood and Roger Gross, Silicon Safe Ltd) 2015-02-05 09:30: Computational biology (Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2015-02-05 12:00: Some applications of multispectral reflectance imaging in biological materials and industrial surface coatings (Dr. José M. Medina, University of Granada) 2015-02-05 12:30: Computing with emotions (Professor Peter Robinson, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge ) 2015-02-05 13:15: Data With Everything (Dr Tim Whitley, BT Distinguished Engineer, MD, Research & Innovation) 2015-02-05 14:30: Mitotic kinases and phosphatases work together to shape the right response. (Dr. Adrian Saurin, Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee ) 2015-02-05 15:00: GraphChi and GraphChi-DB: large-scale graph computation on just a PC (Aapo Kyrölä (Facebook)) 2015-02-05 16:00: Role of Hypoxia-Inducible Factors and Hepcidin in Iron Homeostasis (Dr Carole Peyssonnaux, INSERM, France) 2015-02-06 10:00: Evolvable Manufacturing Processes and Systems – Towards Open, Adaptable and Context-Aware (Svetan Ratchev (Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, Nottingham University)) 2015-02-06 12:00: A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity (out of and in Context) Based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts (Ivan Vulic, KU Leuven) 2015-02-06 13:15: Capturing pluripotency form early mammalian embryos (Jenny Nichols, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-06 13:30: Human-like singing and talking machines: flexible speech synthesis in karaoke, anime, smart phones, video games, digital signage, TV and radio programs, etc. (Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Institute of Technology / Google)) 2015-02-06 14:00: Embodied intelligence: How the body shapes the way robots behave (Dr Fumiya Iida, CUED) 2015-02-06 16:00: Algorithmic Approaches to Statistical Estimation under Structural Constraints (Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh) 2015-02-06 17:30: Developing a Sense of Self (Professor Bruce Hood, Bristol) 2015-02-09 14:30: Single cell transcriptomics. (Dr Steve Harvey, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge ) 2015-02-09 16:30: Adaptive Codes for flexible behaviour in the human brain. (Zoe Kourtzi. Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-09 18:00: Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health (Professor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy) 2015-02-09 20:30: The anatomy of an influenza pandemic (Dr Paul Birrell (MRC Biostatistics Unit)) 2015-02-10 13:00: #ICT4HR - Expert Panel on the Uses of Information Communication Technology to Foster Accountability for Human Rights Violations (Christof Heyns, Christina Ribeiro, Christoph Koettl, Eliot Higgins, Ella McPherson (chair)) 2015-02-10 14:00: MPhil in Computational Biology Open Day (Professor Simon Tavaré and Dr Stephen Eglen) 2015-02-10 16:00: MATLAB for Solving Optimisation Problems in Industry (Jasmina Lazic, Mathworks) 2015-02-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ryutaro Tanno (University of Cambridge)) 2015-02-10 17:30: CGHR Practitioner Series: Tech Innovators Working in Human Rights (Tanya O'Carroll, Adviser, Technology and Human Rights Team, Amnesty International, and Harlo Holmes, Research Fellow, Head of Metadata, The Guardian Project and technical lead for InformaCam.) 2015-02-10 20:00: Computation, Technology and the New Era of STEM (Conrad Wolfram) 2015-02-11 11:00: Orthologous networks in biological systems (Dr Christopher Penfold (Warwick)) 2015-02-11 14:00: Image analysis tools for cancer biology: how could we make it better? (Patrice Mascalchi. Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.) 2015-02-11 14:15: Modelling by Natural Moves (Peter Minary, University of Oxford) 2015-02-11 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-02-12 00:00: *CANCELLED: TERRY SEJNOWSKI TALK ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR 12 FEB* (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-02-12 09:00: Concurrent Algorithms for Emerging Hardware Platforms (Irina Calciu, Brown University ) 2015-02-12 13:00: women@CL Talklets - NLIP (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-12 14:00: Data-driven Nonlinear Control Design Using Robust Adaptive Dynamic Programming (Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang, New York University) 2015-02-12 14:30: Beyond cancer genetics: dissecting the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in leukaemia. (Professor Chi Wai Eric So, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group, Department of Haematological Medicine, King's College London ) 2015-02-12 15:00: Variance Reduction Techniques and Stochastic Optimisation for Monte Carlo (Matt Hoffman; Yutian Chen) 2015-02-12 15:00: Computers, Clocks and Network Time: Everything you never wanted to know about time (George Neville-Neil (Neville-Neil Consulting)) 2015-02-13 10:00: Modeling, Quantifying, and Limiting Adversary Knowledge (Piotr Mardziel, University of Maryland, College Park) 2015-02-13 12:00: Interpreting Document Collections Using Topic Models (Nikos Aletras, UCL) 2015-02-13 13:15: The collective cell biology of organ formation (Darren Gilmour, European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany) 2015-02-13 14:00: How to solve Ax=b when A is really big: applications in solid mechanics and geophysics (Dr Garth N Wells, CUED) 2015-02-13 14:00: Flagellated bacterial motility in polymer solutions (Dr Vincent A. Martinez, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh) 2015-02-13 16:00: Some ideas in nonparametric estimation (Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics) 2015-02-13 16:00: The phase field crystal method: From convection to the evolution of crystals (Peter Voorhees (Northwestern University)) 2015-02-13 17:30: Development of Climate Science (Professor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office) 2015-02-16 09:00: The Difficulty of Preventing Code Reuse Attacks (Felix Schuster, University of Bochum) 2015-02-16 14:00: Using random linear network coding in dynamic storage environments (Prof. Muriel Medard, Department of EECS, MIT) 2015-02-16 14:30: Quality of data and handling missing data in costing studies. (Dr Adam Wagner, Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group) 2015-02-16 19:30: Some of my Accidents (Prof. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College) 2015-02-17 10:00: Towards Full-Stack Security Analysis of Web Applications (Antoine Delignat-Lavaud) 2015-02-17 16:00: Using maths and computer science to understand customer behaviour and deliver relevant services (Giles Pavey and Marios Michailidis, dunnhunby) 2015-02-17 17:00: Sex By Numbers: Quantitative Methods in Sex Research (Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-18 10:00: Context-aware programming languages (Tomas Petricek, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-18 12:00: Protecting encrypted cookies from compression side-channel attacks (Douglas Stebila, Queensland University of Technology) 2015-02-18 13:15: Knowledge Research (Keteven Tsereteli, Bloomberg) 2015-02-18 14:00: Towards a molecular psychophysics of decision making in neuro-development and repair (Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London) 2015-02-18 14:15: Nested Sampling for bulk materials (Gabor Csanyi, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-18 19:00: An Introduction to Wireless Sensor Systems (Tom Rees, Churchill College) 2015-02-19 09:30: Genomic technologies (Jason Carroll, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2015-02-19 11:15: Perspectives on Designing Optimal User Interfaces (Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge)) 2015-02-19 13:00: "You Had me at Hello, World: 1:1 Mentoring with the Leaders of Tech" (Dona Sarkar, Microsoft) 2015-02-19 14:30: How dynein and its co-factors at the kinetochore ensure chromosome segregation fidelity. (Dr Reto Gassmann, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Portugal ) 2015-02-19 15:00: Aestheticodes: Beautiful Interaction (Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge)) 2015-02-19 16:00: Neural Processing of Naturalistic Features by the Hoverfly Visual System (Dr Karin Nordström, Uppsala University, Sweden) 2015-02-20 09:00: Solving QBF by Counterexample-Guided Abstraction Refinement (Mikoláš Janota, INESC-ID, Lisbon) 2015-02-20 10:00: Un-Computing: Shaking off the ‘Computer’ Baggage (Sarah Gallacher, University College London) 2015-02-20 12:00: Argument Mining from Text for Teaching and Assessing Writing (Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh) 2015-02-20 13:15: Transcriptional networks in the developing Xenopus embryo (Jim Smith, MRC National Institute for Medical Research London) 2015-02-20 14:00: Modelling DNA organisation by DNA-binding proteins: the bridging-induced attraction and chromatin reconstitution (Dr Davide Marenduzzo, Lecturer in Biophysics, University of Edinburgh) 2015-02-20 14:00: Fracturing of geomaterials (Professor Kenichi Soga, CUED) 2015-02-20 16:00: Spectral thresholding in quantum state estimation for low rank states (Madalin Guta, University of Nottingham) 2015-02-20 16:00: Minds Like Ours: An Approach to Artificial Intelligence Risk (Professor Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London) 2015-02-20 16:00: Closed-form Green’s functions for the barotropic vorticity equation: new results on Bessel functions (Leo Maas (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research)) 2015-02-20 17:30: Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design (Michael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture) 2015-02-22 10:00: Trinity Mathematical Society Symposium 2015 (Dr. Nathalie Vriend, Dr. Jonathan Nelson, Prof. Ross Anderson, Dr. Robert Brady and others) 2015-02-22 10:45: All About That Bayes: Making Inference from Data (Mary Fortune) 2015-02-23 11:15: Data is Evil and Must be Deleted (Dr Michael Lush, University of Cambridge) 2015-02-23 16:00: Bayesian inference and primary visual cortex: An introduction (Richard Turner (Department of Engineering)) 2015-02-23 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited (Professor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford) 2015-02-24 10:00: Beyond acceleration: time, narratives, and the design of multiple worlds (Larissa Pschetz, University of Edinburgh) 2015-02-24 11:00: A* Sampling (Chris Maddison (U Toronto)) 2015-02-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alec Greaves-Tunnell (University of Cambridge)) 2015-02-24 17:00: Political Theory and Real Politics in the Age of the Internet (Professor David Runciman (Professor of Politics, POLIS)) 2015-02-25 10:00: Considering Tools for Artists, Creative Processes, and Design Ideation (Michael Golembewski, University of Nottingham) 2015-02-25 12:30: Arts in and as Research: A Kaleidoscope Series of Arts-Based Research Practices and Installations (Faculty of Education research students and staff) 2015-02-25 14:00: Transcriptional Network Control of Blood Cell Development (Professor Bertie Göttgens, Department of Haematology) 2015-02-25 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2015 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-02-25 19:00: Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase (Professor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit) 2015-02-26 13:00: Rainbow Group Part II Student Project Presentations (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-02-26 14:15: Super-resolution imaging of nucleosome organisation (Dr Melike Lakadamyali, Group Leader Advanced Fluorescence Imaging and Biophysics Group ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 3 08860 Castelldefels, (Barcelona), Spain) 2015-02-26 14:30: Causes and Consequences of New Mutations. (Dr Matthew Hurles, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge ) 2015-02-26 15:00: Graphs and Charts - A brief introduction to a graph database representation of cancer registry data and the HDI pathway visualisation tool that uses it (Tim Gentry) 2015-02-26 16:00: Signals and Factors Controlling Stem Cell Activity in the Adult Brain (Dr François Guillemot, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, London) 2015-02-26 16:15: Adapting Cities and Their Infrastructure to Global Change: An Integrated Modelling Approach to Understand Risks and Tradeoffs (Professor Richard Dawson, Earth Systems Engineering, Newcastle University) 2015-02-27 13:15: Programming and reprogramming to the trophoblast lineage (Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2015-02-27 14:00: Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes (Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona) 2015-02-27 14:00: Mechanics affecting the ballistic limit of thin metal plates (Dr Benjamin P Russell, CUED) 2015-02-27 15:00: Automated as-built modelling using machine learning (Ioannis Anagnostopoulos - PhD Student) 2015-02-27 16:00: Complexity analysis of the Lasso regularization path and an application of sparsity to isoform detection in RNA-seq data (Julien Mairal, INRIA, Grenoble) 2015-02-27 16:00: Energetics of vertical dispersion in simple and double-diffusive turbulent stratified fluids (Remi Tailleux (University of Reading)) 2015-02-27 17:30: Economic Development (Dr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge) 2015-03-02 10:00: Death, Identity, and the Social Network (Jed Brubaker, University of California) 2015-03-02 11:00: Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations (Dan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London)) 2015-03-02 16:30: Local Transcriptomes and proteomes in neurons (Erin Schuman. Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) 2015-03-02 19:30: Flying 300 underwater Planes and other Oil Industry Innovations (Dr Simon Bittleston, Vice President Research, Schlumberger) 2015-03-03 09:00: Workshop: Machine Learning in Cambridge 2015 (Sebastian Nowozin, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2015-03-03 10:00: Design and Evaluation of Proxemic-Aware Environments to Support Epistemic Activities (Roman Radle, University of Konstanz) 2015-03-04 11:00: Population Inference for Functional Brain Connectivity (Genevera I. Allen (Rice University)) 2015-03-04 12:00: Dopamine - beyond reward? (Thomas Fitzgerald, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL) 2015-03-04 12:30: The association between multimorbidity, healthcare utilisation and out-of-pocket spending in 22 countries: evidence from WHO SAGE and SHARE (Dr John Tayu Lee, health economist, Research Design Service, Imperial College London.) 2015-03-04 14:00: Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils (Dr Elizabeth Murchison. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge) 2015-03-04 15:00: Second Order Differences for Combined Cyclic and Vector Space Data and their Application to Denoising and Inpainting using a TV-type Approach (Ronny Bergmann) 2015-03-04 19:00: Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperones (Prof. Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London) 2015-03-05 10:00: Programming and Proving with Fine-Grained Concurrent Resources (Ilya Sergey, IMDEA Software Institute) 2015-03-05 11:15: Bird sounds and machine learning (Dan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London)) 2015-03-05 13:15: Reach coding nirvana with test-driven development (Dan Mariash and Tom Godkin from Bank of America Merrill Lynch ) 2015-03-05 14:00: Big Data and Fine Details: The Importance of Qualitative Approaches in the Study of Social Media and Political Phenomena (Paolo Gerbaudo, Digital Humanities, King's College London) 2015-03-05 14:00: Rumors, cascades and word of mouth: observing virality on Facebook (Adrien Friggeri (Facebook)) 2015-03-05 14:00: A Framework for Implementing Value-Based Approach in Asset Management (Irene Roda (Politecnico di Milano)) 2015-03-05 14:30: Rapid microbial evolution: From the lab to the clinic and back again. (Professor Mike Brockhurst, Department of Biology, University of York ) 2015-03-05 16:00: Mechanisms of Hypoxic Pulmonary Vasoconstriction (Professor Norbert Weissmann, ECCPS Professur, University of Giessen, Germany) 2015-03-05 16:00: Learning Markov Networks for Mixed Big Data: Applications to Cancer Genomics (Genevera Allen, Rice University) 2015-03-05 19:15: Statistics and Examinations (Tom Bramley, Cambridge Assessment) 2015-03-06 09:00: Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field Sensing (Tobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD) 2015-03-06 09:00: Supporting Proxemic Interactions with Multi-Scale Electric Field Sensing (Tobias Große-Puppendahl, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD) 2015-03-06 11:00: Automatic differentiation and machine learning (Gunes Baydin, Maynooth University) 2015-03-06 12:00: Are you losing Structures in Distributional Vectors? Smoothed Distributed Tree Kernels and the Convolution Conjecture (Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata") 2015-03-06 13:30: Dynamic Topic Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation (Eva Hasler (University of Cambridge)) 2015-03-06 14:00: Modelling Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanotube Fibres (Dr James Elliot, Department of Materials Science) 2015-03-06 14:00: Growth and form of the gut (Dr Thiery Savin, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University ) 2015-03-06 16:00: Sparse CCA: Statistical and Computational Limits (Chao Gao, Yale University) 2015-03-06 16:00: The latest news on flagellar synchronization (Raymond Goldstein (DAMTP)) 2015-03-06 17:30: Technology Development (Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners) 2015-03-06 17:30: International Development - Where is the Evidence? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-03-08 14:00: Finding Shared Causal Variants Between Diseases (Mary Fortune) 2015-03-09 09:00: Text To Programs: Automating Computer Tasks from Natural Language Descriptions (Nate Kushman, MIT) 2015-03-09 10:00: Content Placement as a Key to Leveraging Geo-Distributed Infrastructures (Abhigyan Sharma, University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2015-03-09 13:00: Capacity Decisions in Electricity Production under Risk Aversion and Risk Trading (Danny Ralph (Cambridge JBS) ) 2015-03-09 16:00: Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation (Quentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology) 2015-03-09 16:30: New perspectives on cochlear nerve degeneration in acquired sensorineural hearing loss (Charles Liberman. Harvard Medical School) 2015-03-09 17:30: WiSETI Annual Lecture 2015 (Professor Rachel McKendry) 2015-03-09 18:00: Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material (Professor Malcolm Bolton FREng, Department of Engineering) 2015-03-10 09:00: Ensembles for Discovery of Compact Structures and Learning Back-propagation Forests. (Madalina Fiterau, Carnegie Mellon University) 2015-03-10 10:00: Supporting the Mobile Nomadic User through Projected User Interfaces (Chridtian Winkler, Mobile HCI Lab, Ulm University) 2015-03-10 11:00: Relational Machine Learning for Knowledge Graphs. (Maximilian Nickel, MIT) 2015-03-10 13:30: Convex low-rank models: from matrices to tensors (Ryota Tomioka, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) 2015-03-10 14:00: Learning visual representations (Dr. Andrea Vedaldi, University of Oxford) 2015-03-10 16:30: CNN Seminar - Epidemics over Mobile Phone Networks ( Dr Katayoun Farrahi, Goldsmiths, University of London) 2015-03-10 18:00: Title to be confirmed (Andrew Phillips (Microsoft Research Cambridge)) 2015-03-11 13:00: Paradise Lost? How the Internet has changed (John Naughton, Vice-president of Wolfson College) 2015-03-11 14:00: Decoding 3-D vision in the human brain (Dr Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology) 2015-03-11 14:00: The Automatic Statistician - an AI for Data Science (Zoubin Ghahramani - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2015-03-12 11:00: An introduction to the Mondrian Process (Matej Balog (Oxford)) 2015-03-12 15:00: On Factors Affecting the Usage and Adoption of a Nation-wide TV Streaming Service (Dmytro Karamshuk (KCL)) 2015-03-12 16:00: Visual information processing and its role in fly and cephalopod behaviour. (Dr Trevor Wardill, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2015-03-12 17:30: Some essential links between maths and the arts - Cambridge Science Festival (FULLY BOOKED) (Professor John D Barrow FRS) 2015-03-13 12:00: Learning Latent Syntactic Representations with Joint Models (Jason Naradowsky, UCL) 2015-03-13 16:00: Liquid drops on soft solids (Jacco Snoeijer (University of Twente)) 2015-03-13 17:00: BIOSCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Q&A SESSION: A personal perspective about life in the Bioscience Industry. (Dr Tim Rink, MD, ScD) 2015-03-13 18:15: Mapping the rapid changes in mammalian genome regulation (Paul Flicek, EMBL - EBI) 2015-03-16 09:00: 2nd Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference (Invited speaker to be confirmed) 2015-03-16 15:00: How and why would you do data science in health? (Dr Philippe Giabbanelli, Investigator Scientist, Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR), University of Cambridge) 2015-03-16 16:00: Imaging Brawny Mice and Hypercarnivorous Canids: Applications of CT and MRI for Soft & Hard Tissues (Dr Nathan Jeffrey, University of Liverpool) 2015-03-16 19:30: Meet the Authors (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-03-17 09:00: Can you convince me why your software works? (Anvesh Komuravelli, Carnegie Mellon University) 2015-03-17 10:00: Social Media Predictive Analytics: Methods and Applications (Svitlana Volkova, Johns Hopkins University) 2015-03-17 16:00: Cell-size control and homeostasis at the single-cell level (Professor Suckjoon Jun, UCSD Physics and Molecular Biology) 2015-03-19 09:00: The Total Archive: Dreams of Universal Knowledge from the Encyclopaedia to Big Data (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-03-19 10:00: Pushing the Limits of Localization and Capacity in Today's Wi-Fi Networks (Jie Xiong, University College London) 2015-03-19 11:00: Evolutionary dynamics in a continuous public goods game (Matthias Bauer ) 2015-03-19 15:00: Saber: Line-Rate Stream Processing on Heterogeneous Architectures (Alexandros Koliousis (Imperial College London)) 2015-03-19 15:00: Combinatorial Stochastic Processes in Bayesian Nonparametrics (Creighton Heaukulani) 2015-03-19 19:00: Driverless Pods on pavements – the technology and the psychology (Speaker to be confirmed - Transport Systems Catapult Ltd, Milton Keynes ) 2015-03-19 19:00: Homeopathy – science fact or science fiction? (at Cambridge Science Festival) (Professor Jayne Lawrence, King's College London) 2015-03-21 12:00: Cambridge Science Festival Maths Public Open Day (Faculty of Mathematics staff and students) 2015-03-24 10:00: Bioinformatics (Balaji Santhanam ; MRC LMB) 2015-03-25 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Break I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-03-26 14:00: Resilient and Reconfigurable Systems: Integration of Data Mining and Process Mining to Simulate Factory-of-the-Future and Hospital-of-the-Future (Dariusz Cegalrek (Warwick University)) 2015-03-26 14:30: The 1000 Genomes Project and Beyond (Laura Clarke1 1000 Genome Project Consortium, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2015-03-26 15:00: Queues don’t matter when you can JUMP them! (Matthew Grosvenor (University of Cambridge)) 2015-03-26 15:00: Deep Gaussian Processes (Richard Turner, Alex Navarro, Thang Bui) 2015-04-02 10:00: Unveiling the Secrets of High-Performance Datacenters (Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2015-04-02 11:00: A Visual Programming Language for building Artificial Biochemistries in Haskell (Lance R. Williams, University of New Mexico) 2015-04-02 14:00: Generalized Gauss and Expectation Inequalities via Semidefinite Programming (Paul Goulart, University of Oxford) 2015-04-02 15:00: Informational Geometry (Nilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu) 2015-04-08 14:00: Who’s Afraid of Fractional Order Laplace? (Clara Ionescu, Ghent University) 2015-04-09 10:00: An Efficient Solver for string and regular expression constraints (Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa) 2015-04-09 12:00: ICASSP presentations (Various) 2015-04-09 12:00: Leveraging a Semantically Annotated Corpus to Disambiguate Prepositional Phrase Attachment (Guy Emerson, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-09 12:40: Hierarchical Statistical Semantic Realization for Minimal Recursion Semantics (Matic Horvat, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-09 14:00: Fractional calculus in control applications (Cristina Muresan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania) 2015-04-09 15:00: Musketeer: all for one, one for all in data processing systems (Ionel Gog (University of Cambridge)) 2015-04-09 16:00: Big Dream Documentary Screening and Q&A Panel (Sara-Jane Dunn, Katja Hofmann, Jasmin Fisher & Sadia Ahmed from Microsoft Research) 2015-04-10 11:00: The SAFE Network from First Principles (Erick Lavoie (McGill University)) 2015-04-13 14:00: Deep Learning of Natural Language Semantics (Prof Yoshua Bengio - Université de Montréal) 2015-04-13 16:00: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of tumours (Prof Quaid Morris (Toronto)) 2015-04-13 19:30: The CSAR debate:"This House believes that the Government should fund discovery of new antibiotics and control their distribution and use" (For: Drs Nick Brown and Zack Hassan; Against: Drs David Williams and Ewan Harrison) 2015-04-14 10:00: Formal verification approach to modelling biochemical systems (Tatjana Petrov, IST Austria) 2015-04-15 11:00: Inference for infinite mixture models and Gaussian Process mixtures of experts using simple approximate MAP Inference (Alexis Boukouvalas (Aston University)) 2015-04-15 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Break II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-04-15 18:30: Genetic screening of the human kinome identifies a cellular signalling network predictive of brain atrophy in Alzheimer's disease & Circadian abnormality in Alzheimer's disease: insights from animal models (Becky Inkster (Dept Psychiatry) & Ko-Fan Chen (Dept Genetics)) 2015-04-16 15:00: Online Reputation Management: Estimating the Impact of Management Responses on Consumer Reviews (Davide Proserpio (Boston University)) 2015-04-16 15:00: Gaussian Process Models for Time Series (Roger Frigola, Carl Edward Rasmussen) 2015-04-16 15:30: Super-resolution imaging - Getting and understanding, microscopy images with more details (Martin O. Lenz, Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience ) 2015-04-17 12:00: The Geometry of Machine Translation (Rory Waite, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-17 13:00: Perceptual Organization of Shape (Dr James Elder, York University, Toronto) 2015-04-17 13:00: Probability and Prejudice: Bridging the Gap Between Machine Learning and Programming Languages (Neil Toronto, University of Maryland) 2015-04-17 14:00: Enabling Connected Cars through Named Data. (Giovanni Pau, University Pierre at Marie Curie) 2015-04-17 16:00: A Framework for Elastic Shape Analysis of Objects (Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University) 2015-04-20 10:00: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Computations on FPGAs (Erich Wenger, Graz University of Technology, Austria) 2015-04-20 11:15: Genotype imputation (Dr Kyriaki Michailidou, University of Cambridge, and Dr Jonathan Tyrer, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-20 14:00: Human-Data Interaction - Big Data/Digital Humanities Seminar (Richard Mortier (University of Cambridge)) 2015-04-21 12:30: From ‘Protectors of Public Health’ to ‘Facilitators of Biomedical Innovation’: Drivers and Impacts of Trends in Pharmaceutical Regulation in the United States and European Union since 1992 (Dr Courtney Davis, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine , Kings College, London) 2015-04-21 14:00: Understanding and Fighting Malicious Activity on Online Social Networks (Gianluca Stringhini, Assistant Professor, University College London) 2015-04-22 13:00: Bayesian inference accounts for a novel psychophysical effect in face perception (Jonathan O’Keeffe (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) ) 2015-04-22 19:00: The Tortoiseshell Cat in the Junk Yard (Nessa Carey) 2015-04-23 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Tuan Anh Le (Oxford)) 2015-04-23 11:15: Sky Modeling and Efficient Sampling (Thomas Bashford Rogers) 2015-04-23 13:00: Egypt's Contentious Media: Transnational Dimensions (Anne Alexander, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-23 14:00: Multiplex Network Approach to the Analysis of (Offline and Online) Social Ties (Desislava Hristova, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-23 14:00: Deploying Modular Automation Systems (Robert Harrison (University of Warwick)) 2015-04-23 14:30: Single-cell dynamics of the proliferation-quiescence decision. (Dr Sabrina Spencer, Meyer Lab, Stanford University Medical Center) 2015-04-23 15:00: Copy Content, Copy Friends: Studies of Content Curation and Social Bootstrapping on Pinterest (Changtao Zhong (KCL)) 2015-04-23 15:00: Causal Inference (Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Amar Shah) 2015-04-23 15:00: Some technical aspects of building SHIM (Graham Phillips, NHS Cancer Screening Programmes) 2015-04-23 16:00: Neuroimmune interactions in early development and the biological embedding of health disparities (Professor Staci Bilbo, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University, USA) 2015-04-23 17:00: Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings (Helen Berry (Newcastle)) 2015-04-24 10:00: "... and then just encode it to SAT." (Martin Brain, University of Oxford) 2015-04-24 12:00: Mathematics of Crime (Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA) 2015-04-24 12:00: Statistical modelling of metaphor (Ekatarina Shutova, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-24 13:15: Cellular strategies for airway epithelial maintenance (Emma Rawlins, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2015-04-24 14:00: Interferometric scattering microscopy: From high-speed nanometry to ultra-sensitive label-free imaging (Professor Philipp Kukura, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford ) 2015-04-24 14:00: From Industry to Academia – How resilient are structural systems to highly transient loading conditions (Dr Ryan Judge, School of Structural Engineering, University of Liverpool) 2015-04-24 16:00: Dynamics of compressible vapour and brine flows in permeable conduits (Herbert Huppert, DAMTP) 2015-04-27 11:00: Declarative query processing in imperative managed runtimes (Stratis Viglas, University of Edinburgh) 2015-04-27 14:10: Migration of Populations via Marriages in the Past (Mason Porter (University of Oxford)) 2015-04-27 16:30: Neural circuits underlying operant learning in larval zebrafish. (Prof. Florian Engert. Harvard University) 2015-04-27 19:30: New Developments in Machine Intelligence (Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge) 2015-04-28 12:00: Current Research on Environment, Energy, Behaviour, and Comfort in Buildings (Prof. Dean Hawkes (University of Cambridge)) 2015-04-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2015-04-29 14:00: Toward Causal Machine Learning (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) 2015-04-29 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-04-29 17:00: Social Mobility and Education (Professor Anna Vignoles) 2015-04-30 11:00: Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance: A collaboration between the Cambridge Machine Learning Group and Cambridge Capital Management (Creighton Heaukulani, Matt Hoffman, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Andrew Baxter, ) 2015-04-30 14:00: Stability, Synchronisation and Model Reduction in Nonlinear Systems (Edward Hancock, University of Oxford) 2015-04-30 14:30: Biogenesis and function of circular RNAs (circRNAs). (Dr Sebastian Kadener, University of Jerusalem) 2015-04-30 14:30: Inferring Cancer Evolution (Florian Markowetz, Cambridge University, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2015-04-30 15:30: Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain (Zoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)) 2015-04-30 16:00: Making, breaking and directing polarity during neural lumen formation and neurogenesis in the zebrafish embryo (Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology) 2015-05-01 09:30: Risk of long-distance airborne spread of infectious plant diseases (Marcel Meyer, 1st yr grad) 2015-05-01 12:00: Modelling implicit language learning with distributional semantics (Dimitris Alikaniotis, DTAL, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-01 12:30: Disfluency detection in spoken learner English (Andrew Caines, DTAL, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-01 13:15: Trafficking and regulation of Wnt proteins in developing epithelia (Jean-Paul Vincent, The Francis Crick Institute - NIMR, London) 2015-05-01 14:00: Indentation of a viscoelastic half-space (Dr J Greenwood, CUED (Emeritus)) 2015-05-01 15:00: Queues don’t matter when you can Jump them! (Matthew P. Grosvenor, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory) 2015-05-01 16:00: Poking and wrinkling of shells and sheets (Dominic Vella (Oxford University)) 2015-05-01 18:15: Analysing Daily Behaviours with Large-Scale Smartphone Data. (Neal Lathia, Computer Laboratory) 2015-05-04 14:00: The Dutch electronic patient record system and beyond - towards physician-controlled decentralized medical record exchange. (Guido van 't Noordende, University of Amsterdam) 2015-05-05 16:00: Innovation Begins at Home (Andy Stanford-Clak, Master Inventor, Member IBM Academy of Technology, Fellow BCS, Honorary Professor University of East Anglia, Visiting Professor University of Newcastle) 2015-05-06 11:00: Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural Networks (Mark Rowland (Cambridge)) 2015-05-07 14:00: Serialisation in the Pharmaceutical Industry – Challenges and new age solutions (Anthony Wainman (Palletech)) 2015-05-07 14:30: Edge-Decompositions of Graphs (Daniela Kühn (University of Birmingham)) 2015-05-07 14:30: New dimensions of antiviral immunity in insects. (Dr Maria Carla Saleh, Institut Pasteur, Paris ) 2015-05-07 15:00: Scalable MCMC (Hong Ge, Jes Frellsen) 2015-05-07 15:30: Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruning (Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) ) 2015-05-07 17:00: Seabirds and Conservation: One Life, Many Islands (Dr Michael Brooke) 2015-05-08 11:00: Analytics on Graphs with a Trillion Edges (Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL)) 2015-05-08 12:00: Injecting Logical Background Knowledge into Embeddings for Relation Extraction (Tim Rocktäschel, UCL) 2015-05-08 13:00: Genetics in drug discovery and development (John Whittaker, Professor and Vice President of Statistical Platforms and Technologies at GSK) 2015-05-08 13:15: Navigating through tissue mazes: how leukocytes find their way to functional destinations (Milka Sarris, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-08 14:00: Perspectives on Designing Optimal User Interfaces (Dr Per Ola Kristensson, CUED) 2015-05-08 14:00: Nanostructure characterization of planar biomimetic membranes with neutron reflectometry (Dr. Marco Maccarini, TIMC/IMAG, Grenoble) 2015-05-08 15:00: Modelling, Sensing and Visualising within the Life-cycle of Civil Infrastructure (Dr Christian Koch - University of Nottingham) 2015-05-08 16:00: General Bayesian updating and model misspecification (Chris Holmes, University of Oxford) 2015-05-08 16:00: Nonlinear thermoacoustics: Flames on the edge of chaos (Matthew Juniper (University of Cambridge)) 2015-05-11 12:30: Railways and population: spatial interactions (Eduard Alvarez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) and Professor Jordi Marti Henneberg (University of Lleida, Spain)) 2015-05-11 14:30: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar (Philip Chen, PhD Student, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research) 2015-05-11 16:30: NMDA receptors: diversity, molecular mechanisms and synaptic regulation. (Prof. Pierre Paoletti. École Normale Supérieure, Paris.) 2015-05-11 19:30: The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings (Dr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter) 2015-05-12 11:00: Probabilistic numerics: treating numerical computation as learning, or; it's Bayes all the way down (Michael Osborne (Oxford University)) 2015-05-12 12:00: "Designing trials to find the right dose" (Dr Adrian Mander - Director of MRC Biostatistics Unit Hub for Trials Methodology Research, Cambridge) 2015-05-12 14:00: Genetic and epigenetic alterations in patients with congenital heart disease (Prof Silke Sperling, MDC, Berlin, Germany) 2015-05-12 14:00: Technology at Work: The Future of Innovation and Employment (Professor Michael Osborne, Oxford Martin programme on Technology and Employment) 2015-05-12 15:00: Group Walk Random Graphs (A. Georgakopoulos (Warwick)) 2015-05-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2015-05-13 12:30: An overview of the not-so-distant future of psychology and cognitive neuroscience: Replication, preregistration, data sharing, open peer review and more (Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2015-05-13 14:00: Cellular Systems Biology of Chromosome Dynamics (Dr Karen Lipkow - Barbraham Institute) 2015-05-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-05-14 11:00: From rats to robot navigation and beyond (Dr Michael Milford, Quuensland University of Technology) 2015-05-14 13:00: women@CL Talklets (Session 3) - SRG (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-14 13:00: Imaging metabolism using hyperpolarized 13C-labelled cell substrates (Prof Kevin Brindle, Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-14 14:00: Subnational peripheries and the comparative method (Thomas B Pepinsky, Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University) 2015-05-14 15:00: Hessian-free Optimisation for Neural Networks (Adnan Haider, Andrey Malinin) 2015-05-14 15:00: Summaries on mobile phones: Context learning and data simplification (Rik Sarkar (University of Edinburgh)) 2015-05-14 15:30: JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tears (Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam)) 2015-05-15 12:00: Model Theory and the Semantics of Natural Languages (Stanley Peters, Stanford University) 2015-05-15 13:15: On growth and form: gastrulation and axis formation by stem cells in the Amniote embryo (Octavian Voiculescu, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-15 14:00: Developing and using atomic force microscopy to understand soft and biological systems, from bacteria to plastic bags (Professor Jamie Hobbs, Physics Department, University of Sheffield) 2015-05-15 16:00: Text Mining in Dynamic Networks of Documents (David Banks, Duke University) 2015-05-15 16:00: Examples of fluid-structure interactions in biology (Christophe Eloy (IRPHE and Ecole Centrale Marseille)) 2015-05-15 16:45: Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: Toward Causal Machine Learning (Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf) 2015-05-18 14:05: Captain Buzz: An all-smartphone autonomous delta-wing drone (Oliver R. A. Chick (University of Cambridge)) 2015-05-18 15:00: Recent Advances in Information Processing (Dr. Henrique Malvar, Chief Scientist and Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Research) 2015-05-18 18:00: Café Synthetique (Ilya levanti (London biohackspace), Peter Murray-Rust (ContentMine and University of Cambridge)) 2015-05-19 10:00: China Digital Marketing Workshop (Various speakers) 2015-05-19 14:00: Facebook as a Research Tool for the Social Sciences (David Stillwell, Deputy Director, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-19 14:00: Information-flow tracking for web technologies (Luciano Bello) 2015-05-19 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Illés Farkas (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)) 2015-05-19 16:00: Personalised Persuasion: Using preference-based predictions of personality for customised advertising on Facebook (Sandra Matz) 2015-05-19 17:00: Rumour Has It: Rumour Adoption in Conflict-Affected Areas (Professor Kelly Greenhill (Tufts/ Harvard) and Dr. Ben Oppenheim (Stanford/NYU)) 2015-05-20 14:00: Nonlinear Observers with a Contracting Riemannian Distance (Ricardo G. Sanfelice, University of California, Santa Cruz) 2015-05-20 16:00: Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution and Fraud (Dr. Nick Hopwood - Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-21 09:00: Tenth Annual Symposium of the Cambridge Computational Biology Institute (Details of speakers on registration webpage) 2015-05-21 11:15: Computer Vision Systems for Real-World Use (Cecily Morrison, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2015-05-21 14:30: Model systems to study embryonic patterning. (Dr Benoit Sorre, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris) 2015-05-21 15:00: Convolutional Neural Networks (Christof Angermueller, Alex Kendall) 2015-05-21 16:00: Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices (Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science) 2015-05-22 12:00: Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing (Dimitri Kartsaklis, Queen Mary University of London) 2015-05-22 13:15: Plant Developmental Plasticity: How and Why? (Ottoline Leyser, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-22 14:00: A microfluidic diffusion chamber for the analysis of soft biological matter (Professor Jure Derganc, Institute of Biophysics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 2015-05-22 14:30: Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics (Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2015-05-22 16:00: Third and Fourth Cumulants in Independent Component Analysis (Hannu Oja, University of Turku) 2015-05-22 16:00: Mathematical models for microstructured optical fibre (MOF) fabrication (Darren Crowdy (Imperial College)) 2015-05-26 11:00: Rogue states: altered dimensionality of neural circuit activity in Fragile-X mice (Cian O'Donnell, Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute, La Jolla) 2015-05-26 14:00: Random Walk in a Queueing-Network Environment and Related Problems (Yuri Suhov (Pennsylvania State University and Statslab)) 2015-05-26 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2015-05-26 16:15: Hints and Principles for Computer System Design (Butler Lampson - Microsoft Research + MIT) 2015-05-27 14:00: CVD forum talk: A Bayesian approach to the overlap analysis of epidemiologically linked traits (Dr Jennifer Asimit, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2015-05-27 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2015 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-05-28 15:00: Rethinking State-Machine Replication for Multicore Architectures (Parisa Jalili Marandi (MSR Cambridge)) 2015-05-28 15:00: Multilevel sequential Monte Carlo Samplers. (Dr Ajay Jasra, National University of Singapore) 2015-05-28 16:00: Extreme Threats - GL Brown Prize Lecture 2015, The Physiological Society (Professor Mike Tipton, Department of Sport & Exercise Science, University of Portsmouth) 2015-05-29 11:30: Factor Graph Transforms (Prof. Pascal O. Vontobel, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 2015-05-29 12:00: Deep consequences: Why syntax (as we know it) isn't a thing, and other (shocking?) conclusions from modelling language with neural nets. (Felix Hill, Computer Laboratory) 2015-05-29 13:15: Converting temporal information into spatial information in an early vertebrate embryo (Caroline Hill, The Francis Crick Institute - Lincoln's Inn Fields Laboratory, London) 2015-05-29 13:30: 2nd year PhD conference in Applied Mathematics (TBA) 2015-05-29 14:00: Polymer enhanced oil recovery; soft matter physics to explain an industrial question (Dr Andrew Clarke, Schlumberger Gould Research) 2015-05-29 14:00: Scalable design of heterogeneous networks (Richard Pates (University of Cambridge)) 2015-05-29 14:15: Density Embedding Methods: Quality Control and Efficiency for Large Metal Clusters (Dr. Judith B. Rommel, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2015-05-29 18:15: Building a Start-up from Cam’lab Research (Dr. Stone (Novalia) ) 2015-06-01 13:00: Use of novel technologies to explore effective ways to improve population diets: policy-relevant research from New Zealand (Dr Helen Eyles, National Institute for Health Innovation, University of Auckland, New Zealand) 2015-06-01 14:00: Life out on the Savannah... Formal Models meet Mixed-Reality Systems (Michele Sevegnani (University of Glasgow)) 2015-06-01 14:30: Long term health economic modelling of screening strategies for cardiovascular disease prevention (work in progress). (Dr Stephen Kaptoge, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit) 2015-06-01 17:00: The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem (Daniel Spielman (Yale)) 2015-06-01 19:30: Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins (Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL) 2015-06-02 11:00: Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? (Dr Rich Caruana (Microsoft)) 2015-06-02 14:00: Doing social research with social media: the question of participation (Noortje Marres, Sociology, Goldsmiths) 2015-06-02 14:00: Koopman Operator Theory for Dynamical Systems and Control Practice (Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara) 2015-06-02 14:30: Insecure processing of cookies in modern web applications and browsers (Dawid Czagan, Silesia Security Lab) 2015-06-03 11:00: Intelligible Machine Learning Models for HealthCare (Rich Caruana, MSR Redmond) 2015-06-05 12:00: Natural Language Generation from Semantic Web Ontologies (Gerasimos Lampouras, UCL) 2015-06-05 14:00: Hierarchical Structuring of Carbon Nanotubes (Dr Michael De Volder, CUED) 2015-06-05 14:00: The vision for a Data Transparency Lab (Nikolaos Laoutaris (Telefonica Research in Barcelona)) 2015-06-05 16:00: Koopman operator theory in fluid mechanics (Igor Mezic (UC Santa Barbara)) 2015-06-08 15:15: Incentive Mechanisms for User-Provided Networks (Jianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)) 2015-06-08 16:30: Social Epistemic Cognition and STEM Learning: What New Evidence Do We Have from MOOC Big Data? (Dr. Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 2015-06-08 17:00: Mean Field Approaches to Two Sequential Decision Making Problems. (Ramki Gummadi) 2015-06-08 17:30: Effective policy to address the UK's STEM gap: education, immigration and women in science (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-06-08 19:30: The Saga of the Miles M-52 Britain’s Wartime Supersonic Project (Rod Kirkby, Retired Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer) 2015-06-09 11:00: Structural Markov laws / Geometry and HMC (Dr Simon Byrne) 2015-06-09 11:30: Dynamic Imaging from Incomplete Data - Applications in MRI and PET (Benning, M (University of Cambridge)) 2015-06-09 14:00: Image Registration, Data Fusion, Motion Correction (Moderitzki, J (Universitt zu Lbeck)) 2015-06-09 16:00: Big data for gender equality: digital records of gendered interests are associated with state-level gender equality in the US (Youyou Wu) 2015-06-09 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge)) 2015-06-10 10:00: VISC: VIRTUAL INSTRUCTION SET COMPUTING (Vikram Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2015-06-10 14:00: CVD Forum talk: Privacy protecting data linkage research : a key tool in hastening translation and achieving population impact. (Professor Ronan Lyons, Director of the Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research Centre for the Improvement of Population Health through E-records Research (CIPHER), Swansea University) 2015-06-10 15:30: Stats Clinic Easter - IV (earlier start time, 1530-1700) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-06-10 18:30: Exome Sequencing Methods (James Hadfield & Oscar Rueda (Cancer Research UK)) 2015-06-11 12:30: Geodesic Information Flows: Information propagation and its application to segmentation, fusion and data synthesis (Dr M Jorge Cardoso, Lecturer in Quantitative Neuroradiology, University College London) 2015-06-11 14:00: Research with Geo-Social Network Data (Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)) 2015-06-11 14:00: Why fracking works and why not well enough (Zdeněk P. Bažant, McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University) 2015-06-11 14:30: Inhibitory activities of short linear motifs underlie Hox interactome specificity in vivo. (Dr Samir Merabet, IGFL France) 2015-06-11 15:00: Next-generation data-parallel dataflow systems (Frank McSherry (frankmcsherry.org)) 2015-06-11 15:00: Registration of Brain Tumour Morphology: where we are going now with Glioblastoma and other tumour types" (Professor Peter Collins) 2015-06-11 16:00: Looking back: some conclusions from my career in Science (Pr. Martin Raff - MRC LMCB, UCL) 2015-06-12 12:00: Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumours in social media (Maria Liakata, University of Warwick) 2015-06-12 14:00: Osmosis beyond van't Hoff: molecular views, osmotic diodes and energy harvesting (Professor Lyderic Bocquet ) 2015-06-12 16:00: Spherical squirmers - Models for swimming micro-organisms (Tim Pedley (DAMTP)) 2015-06-12 17:00: Random walk on the random graph (Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research, Redmond)) 2015-06-15 19:30: Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK) (Prof. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) 2015-06-16 11:00: Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable Models (Zhenwen Dai) 2015-06-17 12:00: OPUS - Keep track of your research data (Tom Bytheway and Nikilesh Balakrishnan (Computer Laboratory)) 2015-06-17 16:00: Connecting Biology to Mathematics by way of Symbolic Computing (Professor Eric Mjolsness, Leverhulme visiting Professor) 2015-06-18 11:00: Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable Models (Zhenwen Dai) 2015-06-18 18:30: Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour. - Fully Booked! (Dr Nigel Woodcock) 2015-06-19 12:00: Big Data in Medicine: Exemplars and Opportunities in Data Science (See website) 2015-06-19 12:00: Improving & Better Understanding Word Vector Representations (Manaal Faruqui, Carnegie Mellon University) 2015-06-19 13:00: Asynchronized Concurrency: The Secret to Scaling Concurrent Search Data Structures (Vasileios Trigonakis, EPFL, Switzerland) 2015-06-23 12:00: Interrogating the Architecture of Cancer Genomes (Dr Peter Campbell, Head of Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.) 2015-06-23 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel McNamee) 2015-06-24 11:00: The statistical structure of noise in large neural populations (Neil Rabinowitz) 2015-06-24 11:00: Random Function Classes for Machine Learning (Prof. Alex Smola (CMU)) 2015-06-24 11:30: A three-threshold learning rule approaches the maximal capacity of recurrent neural networks (Alireza Alemi, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)) 2015-06-25 11:00: Deep Learning (Professor Geoffrey Hinton FRS (U. Toronto and Google)) 2015-06-26 10:00: Generative Models for Shape and Appearance (Neill Campbell, University of Bath) 2015-06-26 13:00: “Leveraging Social Psychological Theory to Understand Engagement with Personalized Genomic Information” (William Klein, Associate Director, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Maryland, USA) 2015-06-26 15:00: Using routine data to estimate disease recurrence (Matt Williams, Imperial College and Charing Cross Hospital) 2015-06-29 10:00: Rendering Eyes for Eye-Tracking (Erroll Wood, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge) 2015-06-29 11:00: Deep Gaussian processes and variational propagation of uncertainty (Andreas Damianou - Sheffield University) 2015-06-29 15:00: Explaining Non-Linear Classifier Decisions with application to Deep Learning (Prof Klaus-Robert Müller (TU Berlin)) 2015-06-30 11:00: Random Function Classes for Machine Learning (Prof Alexander Smola, Carnegie Mellon University) 2015-07-01 11:00: Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learning (Anna Choromanska (New York University)) 2015-07-02 11:00: Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & Recommendation (Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India)) 2015-07-03 12:00: A Horizontal Transfer from Bacteria to Fungi Enhances Fungal Pathogenicity (Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2015-07-03 12:30: Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling Regression (Prof Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen)) 2015-07-03 14:00: Kshitij Kumar (BITS Pilani) interim presentation (Kshitij Kumar (BITS Pilani)) 2015-07-06 14:00: Bonsai: Reactive Tools for Data Science (Goncalo Lopes, The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @ UCL) 2015-07-08 16:00: Contextual modulation of gamma rhythms in inhibition stabilized cortical networks (Yashar Ahmadian, Columbia University) 2015-07-08 18:30: How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly) (Florian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)) 2015-07-09 15:00: IX: A Protected Dataplane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency (Ana Klimovic (Stanford University)) 2015-07-09 15:00: Analysis of trial electronic prescriptions data – preliminary findings (Andrea Clement, National Health England) 2015-07-10 09:00: Efficient study designs (Julious, S (University of Sheffield)) 2015-07-10 14:00: Standing on the Shoulders of a Giant: One Person’s Experience of Turing’s Impact (David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) 2015-07-13 11:00: Capturing and simulating the interaction of light with the world around us. (Wenzel Jakob, ETH Zurich) 2015-07-13 11:00: Trust in Networks and Collaborating Networked Systems (John S. Baras (University of Maryland College Park)) 2015-07-14 11:00: Solving Second-Order Constraints with Program Synthesis (Cristina David, Oxford University) 2015-07-15 15:00: Discovering enhancer sequences with a role in vertebrate left-right patterning (Dennis Kostka (University of Pittsburgh)) 2015-07-15 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-07-16 09:00: Counting the Cost of Drink in Britain, 1830-1918 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-07-16 11:00: A new MCMC hybrid scheme for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models (Maria Lomeli-Garcia, UCL) 2015-07-16 14:00: INDIN conference presentations (Jumyung Um and Philip Woodall) 2015-07-16 15:00: Unobtrusive Smartphone-based Mobile Health Systems: Experiences with Biological Rhythm Monitoring (Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University)) 2015-07-17 11:00: Rich Component Analysis (James Zou (Microsoft Research New England)) 2015-07-20 09:30: From high dynamic range to perceptual realism (Rafal Mantiuk, Bangor University) 2015-07-20 10:45: Advances in Robust Deformable Object Alignment (Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College) 2015-07-20 11:00: Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization through reversible learning (Dr David Duvenaud (Harvard)) 2015-07-20 11:45: Tree-Structured Classifiers for Pose Estimation (Tae-Kyun Kim, Imperial College) 2015-07-21 09:30: Automatic Recognition of Human Affect and Social Signals (Hatice Gunes, QMUL) 2015-07-21 10:45: Automatic human behaviour understanding (Tadas Baltrusaitis) 2015-07-22 10:00: Giorgia Azzurra Marson (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-07-23 16:00: **Out-of-Term Neuroscience Seminar** Cell Biological Insights into Parkinson’s Disease and ADHD (Professor Morgan Sheng, Vice President (Neuroscience & Molecular Biology), Genentech ) 2015-07-27 15:00: MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences (Alex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto)) 2015-07-27 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Sean Grimmond (Glasgow)) 2015-07-28 14:00: Massively Parallel Hardware Security Platform (Petr Svenda, Masaryk University, Czech Republic) 2015-07-28 14:00: TU Dortmund - research on supply chains and data management (including the industrial dataspace initiative) (Rieke Baerenfaenger, PhD student) 2015-07-29 11:00: Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific Discovery (Dr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University) 2015-07-30 14:00: Information Futureproofing for Infrastructure (Gokcen Yilmaz (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey) ) 2015-08-01 12:00: Hack the Lab (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-08-06 12:00: Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks (Andrej Karpathy, PhD student, Stanford University) 2015-08-06 14:00: Bayesian estimation for multi-object systems (Dr. Jeremie Houssineau, Heriot-Watt University) 2015-08-07 12:00: Cross-lingual transfer of a semantic parser via parallel data (Kilian Evang, University of Gronigen) 2015-08-12 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-08-13 15:00: Routes and Interconnectivity: An Internet Trend and an Architectural Proposal (Sergey Gorinsky (IMDEA)) 2015-08-20 15:00: Recent updates to the WHO classification of tumours (Brian Rous, National Cancer Registration Service) 2015-08-21 13:00: Visual perceptual learning: A new perspective (Professor Cong Yu, Peking University) 2015-08-24 15:00: Universal laws and architectures: theory and lessons from brains, nets, hearts, bugs, grids, flows, and zombies (John Doyle (Caltech)) 2015-08-24 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Olivier Gevaert (Stanford University)) 2015-08-24 16:00: A normative account of episodic memory in online learning over open model spaces (Gergo Orban, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest) 2015-08-25 11:00: Plug into the Supercloud (Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University) 2015-08-27 09:30: "Protecting the forward edge: Is that light at the end of the tunnel?" (Istvan Haller, Vrije Universiteit ) 2015-08-27 15:00: The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphs (Dr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge)) 2015-08-28 14:00: Hard limits on robust control over delayed and quantized communications (Yorie Nakahira, California Institute of Technology) 2015-09-01 11:00: On the Relation between Optimal Transport and Schroedinger Bridges: A Control Perspective (Michele Pavon, University of Padova) 2015-09-03 15:00: Non-melanoma skin cancer:- estimating the size of the elephant in the NHS room (Peter Goon, Specialty Registrar in Dermatology, Department of Dermatology, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital) 2015-09-07 10:00: Executable Relational Specifications of Polymorphic Type Systems using Prolog (Ki Yung Ahn, Portland State University) 2015-09-07 11:00: Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality (Pedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania)) 2015-09-07 11:00: Modelling the cost of cancer: understanding inter-relationships between types of care (Dr Paula Lorgelly, Associate Professor, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University) 2015-09-07 15:00: Towards Cross-fertilization Between Propositional Satisfiability and Data Mining (LAKHDAR SAÏS, CRIL) 2015-09-08 10:30: Computer-aided Concurrent Programming using Concurrent Trace Sets (Roopsha Samanta, IST Austria) 2015-09-09 11:00: Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and Perception (Jason Yosinski (Cornell)) 2015-09-09 11:00: The Power of Negations in Cryptography (Siyao Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 2015-09-09 11:00: The Power of Negations in Cryptography (Siyao Guo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 2015-09-10 11:00: Belief and Truth in Hypothesised Behaviours (Stefano V. Albrecht - School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh) 2015-09-10 14:30: A Program Logic for Concurrent Objects under Fair Scheduling (Hongjin Liang, USTC) 2015-09-11 12:00: Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language Processing (Daniel Beck, University of Sheffield) 2015-09-11 12:30: Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems (Shawn T-H. Wen, University of Cambridge) 2015-09-14 11:00: Convex Factorization Machines (Mathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie)) 2015-09-14 12:00: A-Star Sampling Review (Chris Maddison (U Toronto)) 2015-09-14 16:00: Solving PDEs in domains with complex evolving morphology: Rothschild Visiting Fellow Lecture (Elliott, C (University of Warwick)) 2015-09-15 10:30: Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped Parameters (Koh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)) 2015-09-15 12:00: Deciphering signaling specificity in development, one phosphate at a time (Professor Phillipe Soriano, Mount Sinai Hospital, NY) 2015-09-16 11:00: Harmonic Exponential Families and Group-Equivariant Convolution Networks (Taco Cohen (University of Amsterdam)) 2015-09-16 15:00: Human factors of software updates (Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh) 2015-09-16 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2015 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-09-17 14:00: Eye Gaze Tracking (Dr Pradipta Biswas, CUED) 2015-09-17 14:00: Turbulence still surprises: explorations using a 1D model (Alan Kerstein (Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Labs, CA)) 2015-09-17 15:00: The structures of induction and co-induction. (Paul Downen, University of Oregon.) 2015-09-21 11:00: Probabilistic Line Searches for Stochastic Optimisation. (Maren Mahsereci, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Tübingen)) 2015-09-22 12:00: Neural entrainment to higher-level features of speech reflects the discrete nature of perception in the auditory system (Benedikt Zoefel, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, Toulouse, France) 2015-09-24 13:00: Genotypic Variability and the Quantitative Proteotype (Ruedi Aebersold; ETH, Zurich) 2015-09-25 11:00: Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studies (Francesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute) 2015-09-25 12:00: Joint A* Syntactic and Semantic Parsing for CCG (Mike Lewis, University of Washington) 2015-09-28 09:30: Winton Symposium on Green Computing (See event homepage for list of speakers) 2015-09-29 11:00: Title to be confirmedMaking sense of language: It's okay to count (Gabe Recchia, University of Cambridge) 2015-09-29 18:15: Use of GIS in Ecosystem services and terrain analysis (Cranfield University School of Energy, Environment and Agrifood) 2015-09-30 13:00: Incremental Neuroevolution of Reactive and Deliberative 3D Agents (Adam Stanton, Keele University) 2015-10-01 15:00: Clean Application Compartmentalization with SOAAP (Khilan Gudka (University of Cambridge)) 2015-10-01 16:00: Career Stories (Dr Trevor Wardill, Dr Erica Watson) 2015-10-01 16:30: Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: What are the Prospects for Automatic Theorem Proving? (Prof Sir Timothy Gowers) 2015-10-01 19:00: Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Zoology - FULL (Museum guide) 2015-10-01 19:00: Algorithmic Trading for Data Scientists (Alonzo Jarman) 2015-10-07 09:30: Complementary approaches to Synaptic Plasticity: Objective Functions and Biophysics (Rodrigo Echeveste, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt) 2015-10-07 10:15: Decoding of complex stimuli from large retinal populations (Vicente Botella-Soler) 2015-10-07 14:00: What is Big Data? Discovery through a Data Walkshop (Alison Powell, London School of Economics and Alex Taylor, Microsoft Research) 2015-10-07 16:00: Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Computational Creativity (Tony Veale, University College Dublin) 2015-10-08 10:00: Talking with Reddit: Exploring limitations of recurrent neural network conversational systems. (Alexander Gaunt - Trinity College, Cambridge) 2015-10-08 13:00: Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual Semantics (Tony Veale, University College Dublin) 2015-10-08 14:00: Into the void: bridging the gap between risk genes and psychiatric phenotypes. (Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford) 2015-10-08 14:00: Input allocation using dynamics: theory and applications (Luca Zaccarian, LAAS-CNRS and University of Trento) 2015-10-08 15:00: Reaching reliable agreement in an unreliable world (Heidi Howard (University of Cambridge)) 2015-10-08 16:00: Polarity reversal during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (Dr Manuel Thery, Hospital Saint Louis, Paris, France) 2015-10-09 14:00: Characterizing degrees of freedom through additive combinatorics (Prof. Helmut Bölcskei, ETH Zurich) 2015-10-09 14:00: Atomistic simulations for materials engineering (Dr Gabor Csanyi, CUED) 2015-10-09 16:00: Wetting soft surfaces - how classical laws break down (Rob Style (University of Oxford)) 2015-10-12 11:30: Dale’s principle and the neural processing of latent factors (Alberto Bernacchia, Jacobs University, Bremen) 2015-10-12 16:30: Distilling the true neural correlate of consciousness: have we looked in all the wrong places? (Melanie Wilke, University of Gottingen, Germany) 2015-10-12 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate (Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics) 2015-10-12 18:00: Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology (Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics) 2015-10-13 13:15: How the studio environment and processes foster innovation (Huw Bowles and Hale Harding, Research Scientists & programmers at Studio Gobo) 2015-10-13 14:00: The positive Jacobian constraint in elasticity theory and orientation-preserving Young measures (Dr Filip Rindler, University of Warwick) 2015-10-13 14:00: Understanding Word Embeddings (Omer Levy, Bar-Ilan University) 2015-10-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yan Wu (University of Cambridge)) 2015-10-14 11:00: Efficient Inference and Learning with Intractable Posteriors? Yes, Please. (Diederik P. Kingma (University of Amsterdam)) 2015-10-14 12:00: Approximate nonlinear filtering with a neural network (Jean-Pascal Pfister, ETH Zurich) 2015-10-14 13:00: Learning to Spell: Spelling corrections for Facebook Search (Daniel Bernhardt, Facebook) 2015-10-14 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto ( Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.)) 2015-10-14 16:00: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - I (please note early start time) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-10-14 19:00: PhD Event (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-10-15 11:00: Meta-Bayesian Analysis (Prof. Daniel Roy (University of Toronto)) 2015-10-15 14:00: Intra-tumour heterogeneity and genomic rearrangements in solid cancers. (Dr Roland Schwarz, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton ) 2015-10-15 14:00: New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic Scale (Dr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore) 2015-10-15 15:00: Durability and Access Control for Scalable Distributed Filesystems (Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina)) 2015-10-15 15:00: A Novel Application of Information Theory in Heart Sound Signal Analysis for Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis (Dr Booma Devi Sekar, University of Macau, Macau SAR) 2015-10-15 16:00: CANCELLED: Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions (Prof Ranulfo Romo, Institute of Cellular Physiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)) 2015-10-15 20:00: Freshers’ Squash (N/A) 2015-10-16 11:00: ENGAGING WITH INDUSTRY: WHAT TO SAY, HOW TO SAY IT, AND WHO TO SAY IT TO (Pieter Knook, Visiting Professor of Innovation, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2015-10-16 12:30: The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems Judgement (John Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH) 2015-10-16 13:15: Statistical models of gene regulation in the fly embryo (Nicholas Luscombe The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2015-10-16 14:00: Line Defect dynamics and solid mechanics (Professor Amit Archarya, Carnegie Mellon University) 2015-10-16 14:00: Substituted Nucleotides: versatile building blocks in DNA bio-nanotechnology (Prof. Eugen Stulz, School of Chemistry and Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton) 2015-10-16 16:00: Reducing wind turbine noise by using poroelastic materials (Lorna Ayton (DAMTP)) 2015-10-16 19:30: Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably (Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds) 2015-10-19 11:30: Researching Global Labour Movements: Where do Digital Methods Fit in? (Dr Anne Alexander (Digital Humanities Network, University of Cambridge) and Dr Jenny Chan (Contemporary China Studies, University of Oxford)) 2015-10-19 15:00: HE@Cam seminar: The Cambridge Bioscience Impact Study (Prof Pete Tyler, Department of Land Economy) 2015-10-19 19:30: Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration (Professor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol) 2015-10-21 12:00: Inside Snowden’s suitcase (Evan Light, Concordia University) 2015-10-21 13:00: Introducing the High Performance Computing Service: a computing resource for researchers (Jenny Barna, High performance computing service ) 2015-10-21 13:15: Building location-based services (Salvatore Scellato, Senior Software Engineer, Google) 2015-10-21 14:00: Cluster Management with Kubernetes (Dr Satnam Singh - Facebook) 2015-10-21 14:00: Bioinformatics to support cancer therapeutics (Dr Dennis Wang and Dr. Manasa Ramakrishna, AstraZeneca. ) 2015-10-21 15:00: Construction of Capacity-Achieving Lattice Codes: Polar Lattices (Dr Cong Ling, Imperial College London) 2015-10-21 16:00: Statistical and computational trade-offs in estimation of sparse principal components (Tengyao Wang (University of Cambridge)) 2015-10-21 16:00: AmphiBot and Salamandra robotica: four generations of modular amphibious and swimming robots (Dr Alessandro Crespi, EPFL) 2015-10-21 17:00: Big Data - Drinking from the Firehose (Miranda Mowbray, HP Labs) 2015-10-21 19:30: Pattern formation and positional information in development (Professor Lewis Wolpert) 2015-10-22 10:00: Rethinking Storage and Networking in Next Generation Racks (Sergey Legtchenko, Post-doc Researcher, Systems & Networking, Microsoft Research Ltd) 2015-10-22 14:00: Targeting Polycomb repression to the genome. (Dr Yuri Schwartz, Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Sweden ) 2015-10-22 14:00: Stability of Reaction Networks: A System-Theoretic Approach (Muhammad Ali Al-Radhawi, Imperial College London) 2015-10-22 14:30: LP relaxations for MAP inference (Adrian Weller (University of Cambridge)) 2015-10-22 15:00: Pro-Diluvian: Understanding Scoped-Flooding for Content Discovery in Information-Centric Networking (Liang Wang (University of Cambridge)) 2015-10-22 16:00: Heart Disease Link to Fetal Hypoxia and Oxidative Stress (Professor Dino Giussani - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge) 2015-10-22 16:30: How archaeological evidence bites back: putting old data to work in new ways (Alison Wylie (University of Washington)) 2015-10-22 17:00: The Future of Medicine (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-10-23 12:00: Internal Seminar (NLIP Postdocs and PhDs) 2015-10-23 13:00: Break into a hacker’s mind (Aldwin Saugere (Vice President, IT Security Architecture, Morgan Stanley)) 2015-10-23 13:15: Inflammation in repair and cancer (Paul Martin Department of Physiology & Biochemistry, Bristol University) 2015-10-23 14:00: Magnetorheological elastomers: from micro-deformation mechanisms to macroscopic instabilities and applications (Dr Kostas Danas, École polytechnique) 2015-10-23 14:00: Continuous Droplet Interface Crossing Encapsulation (cDICE): artificial cells and capsules (Dr. Gladys Massiera. Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C – UMR 5221), CNRS - Université de Montpellier, Place E. Bataillon, Montpellier, France) 2015-10-23 15:00: The Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project - what are we going to do with all this data? (Niamh Gibbons - CSIC) 2015-10-23 16:00: Self-propulsion of autophoretic particles (Sébastien Michelin (École polytechnique)) 2015-10-24 13:00: The power of data (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-10-26 13:00: nShield HSMs (Richard Kettlewell, Thales) 2015-10-26 13:30: Adding Security Activities to Agile (Clara Juanes-Vallejo and Pali Surdhar, Thales) 2015-10-26 16:00: Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida) 2015-10-26 16:00: Deep neural networks and visual object recognition (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit) 2015-10-26 16:00: Evolving robotic ecosystems in real hardware (Prof. G. Eiben) 2015-10-26 16:30: Biophysics of the inner ear and beyond (Tobias Reichenbach, Imperial College London) 2015-10-26 18:00: On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere (Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences) 2015-10-26 19:30: Data shadow: Anonymity is our only right, and that is why it must be destroyed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-10-27 16:00: Hiding in Plain Sight: Putin's Wars & the Power of Open Source (Maks Czuperski (Atlantic Council) & Elliot Higgins (Brown Moses)) 2015-10-27 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge)) 2015-10-27 17:00: Task-based Language Teaching with Technology: The EU-Funded CAMELOT Project (Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire) 2015-10-28 13:00: Postcapitalism (Paul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News) 2015-10-28 14:00: Decoding 3-D vision in the human brain (Andrew Welchman, Department of Psychology.) 2015-10-28 16:00: Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida) 2015-10-28 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-10-28 19:30: Summer Internships Event (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-10-29 13:10: Silence is Golden: Controlling Communication and Coordination in Distributed Databases (Dr KC Sivaramakrishnan (Computer Lab)) 2015-10-29 14:00: Transcriptional regulation and downstream program of Hox and Cdx genes during axial development in the mouse embryo. (Dr Jacqueline Deschamps, Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands) 2015-10-29 14:00: Capturing Accurate Colour Images (Prof. Joel Trussell, North Carolina State University ) 2015-10-29 14:00: Sum of squares programming for discrete-time non-linear systems - with application to power converters (Morten Hovd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) 2015-10-29 14:30: Bayesian optimization and its applications (Dr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro) 2015-10-29 14:30: Mining the root causes, driver mutations snd therapeutic opportunities from recalcitrant cancers (Sean Grimmond (Glasgow)) 2015-10-29 15:00: No compromises: distributed transactions with consistency, availability, and performance (Aleksandar Dragojevic (MSR Cambridge) ) 2015-10-29 16:00: The Achilles' heel of the heart: the cardiac conduction system (Professor Mark Boyett, University of Manchester) 2015-10-29 16:00: Learning circuits and cue integration in navigating ants (Barbara Webb) 2015-10-30 12:00: Internal Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-10-30 13:15: Cerebral organoids: human brain development modelled in a dish (Madeline Lancaster, MRC LMB, Cambridge) 2015-10-30 14:00: How to Understand Molecular Transport through Channels: The Role of Interactions (Prof. Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Department of Chemistry, Houston) 2015-10-30 14:00: Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids (Professor Michel W Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University) 2015-10-30 14:00: Strain accommodation in kinking nonlinear elastic solids (Prof. Michel W. Barsoum, Department of Materials Science and Engineering) 2015-10-30 16:00: Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics (Professor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida) 2015-10-30 16:00: Theory for thermoacoustic waves in a narrow channel subject to a temperature gradient (Nobumasa Sugimoto (University of Osaka)) 2015-11-02 15:00: Non-stationary Network Modelling by Particle Filtering: case of Gene Interaction Networks (Dr Ercan E Kuruoglu, ISTI-CNR, Pisa) 2015-11-02 16:30: Light Sleep (Gero Miesenboek University of Innsbruck) 2015-11-02 19:30: Maths and the Arts (Professor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-03 14:30: Title TBC (Prof Walter Gregory, Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds) 2015-11-04 12:00: Who makes data big? (Paolo Gerbaudo (Digital Society Lab, KCL), Anne Alexander (Digital Humanities Network, Cambridge) ) 2015-11-04 13:00: Big Data & Microsoft Office: How Office uses Big Data to understand Usage, Errors and Reliability (Shemyla Anwar, Microsoft) 2015-11-04 14:00: Spatio-temporal organization of replication: On genome evolution and large-scale chromatin folding (Benjamin Audit, Laboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France) 2015-11-04 19:30: Thinking without a brain: Auxin and the self-organisation of plant form (Professor Ottline Leyser, Sainsbury's Laboratory ) 2015-11-04 20:00: News from the Large Hadron Collider (Professor Andy Parker (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-05 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2015-11-05 12:00: Optimal control of wave energy converters (Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College London) 2015-11-05 14:30: Detecting paraphrases using recursive autoencoders (Feynman Liang) 2015-11-05 15:00: FlowWatcher: Preventing Data Disclosure Vulnerabilities in Web Applications (Dan O'Keeffe (Imperial College London)) 2015-11-05 16:00: Concept cells (Prof Rodrigo Quiroga, University of Leicester) 2015-11-05 19:00: Fireworks & Waterworks - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture (Dr Andrew Szydlo (Highgate School, London)) 2015-11-06 12:00: How much linguistics is needed for NLP? (Edward Grefenstette) 2015-11-06 13:00: Demystifying a Technology career in Finance Q&A (Panel of Cambridge Alumni in a variety of roles and seniorities in Technology at Morgan Stanley) 2015-11-06 13:15: The 6th element of DNA: Identification of methyl deoxyadenosines in higher eukaryotes (Magdalena Koziol (Gurdon lab), Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) 2015-11-06 16:00: Turbulence in stratified shear flow (Paul Linden (DAMTP)) 2015-11-06 16:00: Robotic Approaches in Locomotor Biology (Dr William Seller (University of Manchester)) 2015-11-09 12:00: Digital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist, Practice-oriented Institutional Approach (Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Oxford) 2015-11-09 12:00: Robotics and Space Engineering in Tohoku University (Professor Kazuya Yoshida, Tohoku University (Japan) ) 2015-11-09 13:00: Stealing App Credentials for Fun & Profit (Robert Duncan, Netcraft) 2015-11-09 16:30: Contrasting roles of prefrontal cortical areas in reward-guided learning and decision making. (Matthew Rushworth. University of Oxford) 2015-11-09 18:00: The human brain - a lesson in green technology (Professor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology) 2015-11-09 19:00: Scisoc talk: Dr Ewan Birney - 'Big Data for Basic Research' (Dr Ewan Birney) 2015-11-10 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-11 12:00: Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising model (Dr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton)) 2015-11-11 13:00: Code DNA (Dimitrios Staikos, Bloomberg) 2015-11-11 14:00: Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants (Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory.) 2015-11-11 16:00: The Syria series ‘War, disasters and data: the need for an evidence-based humanitarian response’ (Talk by former Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and World Health Organization, Middle East field epidemiologist - Jesse Berns) 2015-11-11 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-11-11 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage (Professor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego) 2015-11-11 19:30: The evolutionary struggles of giant land animals against gravity (Professor John Hutchinson) 2015-11-12 12:00: Path-complete Lyapunov techniques: when Algebra and Combinatorics meet in Control (Raphaël Jungers, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) 2015-11-12 13:30: Poster Session I (Various) 2015-11-12 14:00: Breaking the silence: defense and counter-defense in antiviral RNA silencing pathways of insects. (Dr Ronald van Rij, Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, The Netherlands ) 2015-11-12 14:00: Gain from Multiple Measurements: Measurement Diversity and Resource Allocation (Dr Wei Dai, Imperial College London) 2015-11-12 14:00: Statistical Acoustic-Phonetic Historical Linguistics: A short introduction (John Aston (University of Cambridge); John Coleman (University of Oxford)) 2015-11-12 14:30: Sunnyside (Dr Laura Wright (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-12 14:30: Connections between kernels, GPs, and NNs (Matthias Bauer (University of Cambridge); Paul Rubenstein) 2015-11-12 15:00: Crowdsourcing big data in English dialectology (Bert Vaux (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-12 15:30: Understanding generative learning in the individual brain (Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-12 16:00: Poster Session II (Various) 2015-11-12 16:30: Annual open meeting (Cambridge Language Sciences) 2015-11-12 17:00: Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language (Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)) 2015-11-12 17:30: An introduction to science in policymaking: who, what, why and how? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-11-12 19:00: Filling the sensory gap in Big Data. (Dr. Sacha Krstulovic, Audio Analytic Ltd.) 2015-11-13 11:00: Hyperspectral imaging - a flexible tool for tissue characterization (Prof. Lise Lyngsnes Randeberg, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway) ) 2015-11-13 12:00: Motivation and learning in citizen science: The role of automatically generated feedback. (Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen) 2015-11-13 13:00: Saving the world one handset at a time: mobile phones and building the Internet (Simon Chatterjee, Ensoft) 2015-11-13 13:15: The origin of Metazoa, a genomics and cell biology approach…or why things are never ever so simple (Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, CSIC-UPF and Univeristy of Barcelona) 2015-11-13 14:00: Micromechanics of metallic and graphene (nano-)foams (Dr Patrick Onck, University of Groningen) 2015-11-13 14:00: Transferring the Principles of Human Impedance Control to Soft Robotic Systems (Matthew J Howard, King's College London) 2015-11-13 16:00: Interactions between near-inertial waves and mesoscale flow in the ocean (Jacques Vanneste (University of Edinburgh)) 2015-11-16 15:30: Adventures in structural variation and evolution in cancer (Tony Papenfuss (WEHI + Peter Mac Melbourne)) 2015-11-16 16:00: How to communicate your research to policymakers (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-11-16 19:30: Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably (Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds) 2015-11-17 10:00: Reaching reliable agreement in an unreliable world (Heidi Howard, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge ) 2015-11-17 10:40: Using Mathematics and Machine Learning for Cyber Security (Andrew Tsonchev, Darktrace) 2015-11-17 10:40: Sensory maps (Dr Daniele Quercia, Bell Labs) 2015-11-17 11:50: Bad Traffic Big Data? (Dr Ian Lewis, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-17 11:50: Computer Forensics (Dr Chris Hargreaves, Cranfield University) 2015-11-17 12:30: Introduction to 3D Printing and 3D Printing applications (Sav Jeyendran, Canon) 2015-11-17 12:30: Building software that makes sense: how to write for user interfaces (Beth Aitman, Redgate Software) 2015-11-17 14:20: CamCERT: What we do (Kate Jeary, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-17 14:20: The Machine (Dr Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs) 2015-11-17 15:00: UIS Website Creation and Hosting Services: Current Offerings and Future Direction (Nick Mattin & Jon Warbrick, University of Cambridge Information Services) 2015-11-17 15:00: Human factors in Internet Fraud (Dr David Modic, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-17 16:10: Computing is so last century (John Grant, Nine Tiles) 2015-11-18 12:00: Why does ethics matter to big data? (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-11-18 13:00: Challenges to Operating a Service Oriented Architecture (Tomas Doran, Yelp) 2015-11-18 14:00: Defining Transcription factor specificity and redundancy in Drosophila (Professor Steve Russell, Department of Genetics.) 2015-11-18 15:00: Cancer Genetics and Cancer Registration (Fiona McRonald, Public Health England) 2015-11-18 16:00: Collective Sensing and Decision-Making in Animal Groups: From Fish Schools to Primate Societies (Iain Couzin) 2015-11-18 16:00: Random projection ensemble classification (Tim Cannings (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-18 19:30: TBC (Dr Julian Huppert) 2015-11-19 11:30: Cloud Radio Access Networks: Challenges and (Some) Solutions (Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, New Jersey Institute of Technology) 2015-11-19 11:30: Supporters Club recruitment fair (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-11-19 13:00: From Boolean to Quantitative Methods in Formal Verification (Thomas Henzinger, IST Austria) 2015-11-19 14:00: Genomics approaches for the investigation of gene regulation. (Dr Jim Hughes, Hughes Genome Biology Group, Oxford ) 2015-11-19 14:15: Deep Learning in Facial Analysis (Rainbow Group, Computer Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge) 2015-11-19 14:30: Logic, Theorem Proving, and Probabilistic Programming (Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-19 16:00: Migration of neuronal and immune cells in forebrain wiring (Dr Sonia Garel, INSERM, France) 2015-11-19 16:00: Credit Cycle and Efficient Market Hypothesis - a practical point of view (Eric Lu ) 2015-11-19 19:00: Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way (Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) 2015-11-20 13:00: Computer Science Collides With Reality (Tom Rathborne (senior developer at Booking.com) and Steffen Mueller (Senior Manager Technology Infrastructure and Developer/Admin at Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)) 2015-11-20 13:15: Building a Platform for Cell Division (Paul Conduit, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-20 14:00: Counting with symmetry for structural mechanics (Dr Simon Guest, CUED) 2015-11-20 14:00: Counting with symmetry for structural analysis (Dr Simon Guest, CUED) 2015-11-20 14:00: Nanophotonic approaches to investigate the spatiotemporal organization of biological membranes (Prof. Maria F. Garcia-Parajo, ICFO-Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain and ICREA- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain) 2015-11-20 14:00: On the Nonlinear Dynamics of Collective Decision-Making in Nature and Design (Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University) 2015-11-20 15:00: Light at the end of the tunnel? Distributed sensing to better understand infrastructure (Neil Hoult - Queens University Kingston, ON) 2015-11-23 13:00: What do you do with 10 million unlabelled images? (Alexandre Dalyac, Tractable) 2015-11-23 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar (Prof Larry King, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-23 16:30: Molecular and Cellular Architecture of Social Behavior Circuits in the Mouse (Catherine DuLac, Harvard University) 2015-11-23 17:00: Social media and the making of the New-Baraza; mediatisation of Kenya’s local administration (Dr Duncan Omanga, (Moi University, Kenya)) 2015-11-23 18:00: Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects (Professor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics) 2015-11-24 11:00: Cluster management at Google with Borg (John Wilkes (Google)) 2015-11-24 13:00: What dancing robots might teach us about the development of form and motion understanding in the human brain (Dr Emily Cross, Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University | Behavioural Science Institute & Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) 2015-11-24 14:00: A gentle and structured introduction to machine learning (Pascal Wichmann (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-24 16:00: Symplectic geometry and feedback loops on graphs. (David Tourigny (DAMTP)) 2015-11-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-25 13:00: "Coding your way out of a paper bag" (Frances Buontempo, Bloomberg) 2015-11-25 14:00: Communication Technologies Research at the NPL (Dr Tian-Hong LOH - National Physical Laboratory UK) 2015-11-25 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2015 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-11-25 19:00: Randomised computation (Daria Dicu, Sidney Sussex College) 2015-11-25 19:30: Revolutions that made the earth (Professor Tim Lenton) 2015-11-26 11:00: A Bayesian approach to parameter identification in Turing systems (Campillo-Funollet, E (University of Sussex)) 2015-11-26 13:00: The Silicon State (Adrian Brown, Boston Consulting Group, Centre for Public Impact) 2015-11-26 13:00: Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian Eyes (Yarin Gal, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-26 13:30: OpenCon Cambridge (Various) 2015-11-26 14:00: Electron beam stabilisation for a synchrotron: An example of the control of spatio-temporal systems (Stephen Duncan, Oxford University) 2015-11-26 14:00: OpenCon (OpenCon Cambridge) 2015-11-26 14:30: Stochastic optimization and adaptive learning rates (Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge); Mark Rowland) 2015-11-26 15:00: The Internet as your killer ICN use case (Dirk Trossen (InterDigital Europe)) 2015-11-26 16:00: Circuit adaptations underlying drug addiction: mechanisms and therapeutic implications (Prof Christian Lüscher, University of Geneva) 2015-11-26 16:00: Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers (Roger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS) 2015-11-26 17:30: “Biostatistician behind bars: by design and on trial” (Professor Sheila M. Bird, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2015-11-27 12:00: Lacking Integrity: HPSG as a Morphosyntactic Theory (Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge)) 2015-11-27 13:15: Comparative analyses of neuromesodermal progenitor dynamics in vivo (Ben Steventon, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2015-11-27 14:00: Emergent parabolic scaling of nano-faceting crystal growth (Dr Stephen Watson, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow) 2015-11-27 16:00: Mechanical energy conservation in turbulent jets and plumes: entrainment relations and unsteadiness (Maarten van Reeuwijk (Imperial College London)) 2015-11-30 13:00: Halo clustering for precision cosmology (Vincent Desjacques (U. Geneva)) 2015-11-30 13:00: Cybersecurity framework: a deep dive (Harry Biddle – Quality Engineer at Palantir, Mathematician turned Software Engineer) 2015-11-30 16:30: Temporal Expectations in the Human Brain (Professor Kia Nobre) 2015-11-30 19:15: Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia (Professor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge) 2015-12-01 09:30: Inference algorithms for probabilistic graphical models (Minka, T (Microsoft Research)) 2015-12-01 14:00: A demonstration of the Indefinite Information System (IdIS) concept attached to a Warehouse Management System (Philip Woodall (University of Cambridge)) 2015-12-01 16:00: Sustainable robotic devices for personalized medical assistance (Dr Dana Damian, University Sheffield) 2015-12-01 16:30: Bio-inspired small scale manufacturing by self-assembly and self-folding ( Dr Shuhei Miyashita) 2015-12-02 13:00: Making sense of 20 billion data points a day (Vince Darley – Chief Scientist, King) 2015-12-02 13:00: Activity recognition in naturalistic environments (Nils Yannick Hammerla, Newcastle University) 2015-12-02 14:00: Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery (Dr Andeas Bender, Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge University. ) 2015-12-02 18:30: Reverse Thinking: First Image Analysis then Immunostaining Protocol (Dr Hélène Gautier (PDN) and Dr Leila Muresan (CAIC)) 2015-12-02 19:30: TBC (Dr Ross Piper) 2015-12-02 19:40: Whimsical Networking: the Past, the Present, and the Future (Gabriela Sklencarova, Churchill College) 2015-12-03 11:00: A First Look at the Internet Usage Context of Indigenous U.S. Populations (Elizabeth Belding (UCSB)) 2015-12-03 14:00: Data Recommender Systems and Data Markets for Industrial Data Management (Torben Jess) 2015-12-03 14:15: Rainbow Seminar - A Model of Local Adaptation (Dr Rafal Mantiuk, Graphics and Interaction Group, Computer Laboratory) 2015-12-03 14:30: Measurable circle squaring (Oleg Pikhurko (University of Warwick)) 2015-12-03 15:00: Alternative Database Technologies - and what they can offer to Cancer Registration (Paul Eves, Public Health England) 2015-12-03 16:00: From mesoderm mechanotransductive evolutionary origins to tumourogenic mechanical induction (Emmanuel Farge, Institute Curie, Paris) 2015-12-03 19:00: DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding (Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) 2015-12-03 19:00: A-Z of A/B testing. (Shrividya Ravi, Data Scientist @ Metail.) 2015-12-04 11:00: Systems Software for The Machine (Dejan Milojicic (HP Labs)) 2015-12-04 11:00: Digital Government: Not Complicated, Just Hard (Tom Loosemore - Government Digital Service) 2015-12-04 12:00: Efficient Constrained Inference and Structured Neural Networks for Semantic Role Labeling (Oscar Täckström, Google) 2015-12-04 16:00: The medieval science of the rainbow: from a 13th century treatise to Mie scattering and log-polar colour mapping (Tom McLeish (Durham University)) 2015-12-04 16:30: Data, Manifold Learning, and the Modelling of Complex/Multiscale Systems (Kevrekidis , Y (Princeton University)) 2015-12-07 19:30: Technology Development (Dr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners) 2015-12-08 14:30: "Blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease & Temporal Clustering of biological, medical and wearable data" (Dr Steven Kiddle MRC SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London) 2015-12-08 17:30: 'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?' (Prof Robert Putnam (Harvard University) ) 2015-12-09 11:00: A Constructive Approach to Secure-Channel Protocols (Bjorn Tackmann, University of California San Diego) 2015-12-10 10:00: Model-Based Hand Tracking with Texture, Shading and Self-occlusions (Martin De La Gorce, Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech) 2015-12-10 13:30: 'Mathematical Modelling': Maths and paper folding workshop for Year 8 students (Fran Watson, NRICH) 2015-12-10 14:00: Blockchain technology and its potential application to supply chain traceability (Mark Harrison (Milecastle Media Limited, providing technical consultancy to GS1)) 2015-12-10 18:30: PICO PROJECT – NO MORE PASSWORDS (Dr. Frank Stajano, Computer Lab, Cambridge University,) 2015-12-11 10:00: The contribution of millisecond spike timing of cortical neurons to sensory coding and perceptual decisions (Stefano Panzeri, Italian Institute of Technology) 2015-12-11 11:00: Characterization of Professional Users Behavior in Major Online Social Networks (Reza Farahbakhsh (Telecom SudParis)) 2015-12-11 16:00: Boosting in the presence of outliers: adaptive classification with non-convex loss functions (Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego)) 2015-12-14 09:00: Perspectives in Nano Information Processing (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-12-14 10:00: A Decade of Thrill (Brendan Walker, Middlesex University/University of Nottingham/Aerial) 2015-12-15 09:00: Perspectives in Nano Information Processing (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-12-16 09:00: Perspectives in Nano Information Processing (Speaker to be confirmed) 2015-12-16 11:00: General Reinforcement Learning (Jan Leike (Australian National University)) 2015-12-16 12:30: P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think (Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health) 2015-12-16 14:00: Record linkage for epidemiology of less common vascular diseases: the first large-scale prospective study of aortic stenosis (Dr Benjamin Cairns, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford) 2015-12-18 13:00: RASA2 is a Novel Tumor Suppressor in Melanoma (Yardena Samuels; Weizmann Institute, Israel) 2016-01-04 09:30: Symbiotic design for machine intelligence systems (Cecily Morrison, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2016-01-05 09:00: Biobanking 2016 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-01-05 10:00: Synthesising Gene Regulatory Networks from Single-Cell Gene Expression Data (Steven Woodhouse, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-05 11:00: Formalising and Analysing Transactional Consistency Models (Andrea Cerone) 2016-01-06 12:30: Accounting for Arrival-Rate Uncertainty in Call-Center Scheduling (Professor Noah Gans, Professor of Management Science and Operations, London Business School and Wharton) 2016-01-11 09:30: Verasco, a formally verified C static analyzer (Jacques Henri Jourdan, INRIA Paris) 2016-01-11 12:00: Robotics in Agriculture (Prof Simon Blackmore, Harper Adams) 2016-01-11 15:00: End-user programmers need first-class software engineering tools (Felienne Hermans, Delft University of Technology) 2016-01-12 14:30: "An Unbiased and Scalable Monte Carlo Method for Bayesian Inference for Big Data" (Dr Murray Pollock, University of Warwick) 2016-01-13 12:00: Health and Policy Research in Africa: Gathering opinions using interactive radio and SMS in East Africa (Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes (Africa's Voices Foundation)) 2016-01-13 13:00: Registry Studies in Organ Donation and Transplantation (Professor Dave Collett, Associate Director of Statistics and Clinical Studies, Director of NHSBT Clinical Trials Unit) 2016-01-13 14:00: Defining cell states and regulatory networks by single cell expression profiling (Professor Bertie Gottgens) 2016-01-14 14:00: Integral Quadratic Constraint Theorem: A topological separation approach (Joaquin Carrasco Gomez, University of Manchester) 2016-01-14 14:30: Stochastic discrete integration (Adrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge)) 2016-01-14 15:00: Even Faster VM Networking with Virtual Passthrough (Giuseppe Lettieri (University of Pisa) ) 2016-01-14 16:00: Evolution of color and motion vision (Claude Desplan- NYU Biology) 2016-01-14 16:00: "Transforming an 800 year old University to make it even better" (Professor Jeremy Sanders, Pro-Vice Chancellor of The University of Cambridge) 2016-01-15 14:00: Pressure-driven occlusive flow of a confined red blood cell (Dr Thierry Savin, CUED) 2016-01-15 16:00: Effects of ocean surface gravity waves: on turbulence, climate, and frontogenesis (Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown University)) 2016-01-15 17:30: Personal Principles and the Political Game (Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords) 2016-01-18 12:30: Rating Companies on Responsible Sourcing: Data Sprint (Amnesty International and WikiRate) 2016-01-18 13:05: Building a Trading System (How we really do it…) (Johan Ditmar, Head of Investment Operations Technology, Winton Capital) 2016-01-18 14:30: Opportunistic Storage Maintenance (SOSP’15) (Angela Demke Brown, University of Toronto) 2016-01-18 16:30: Human cerebral cortex development and disease in stem cell systems (Dr Rick Livesey, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-18 19:30: The Challenge and Excitement of Discovering New Medicines (Dr Menelas Pangalos, Executive Vice-President, Astra Zeneca) 2016-01-19 13:00: Symposium: "Technological displacement of middle-class employment: political and social implications" (Robert Madelin, Daniel Susskind,Willy Brown, Gerard de Vries) 2016-01-19 13:00: Technological Displacement of White-collar Employment: Political and Social Implications (Robert Madelin, Daniel Susskind, Willy Brown, Gerrard de Vis) 2016-01-20 13:05: Shaping Energy with Technology (Oliver Burstall CTO, Origami Energy) 2016-01-20 14:00: Understanding tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma (Professor Simon Tavaré) 2016-01-20 14:00: Digital Vigilantism and the Weaponisation of Visibility on Social Media (Dr Daniel Trottier, Department of Media and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam) 2016-01-20 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-01-20 18:30: Ensuring data are Understood (Dr Jenny Grant Rankin ((Illuminate Education) and Dr Margie L. Johnson (Metropolitan Nashville Public School)) 2016-01-21 11:15: Are Machine Learning Systems Unethical? (Alan Blackwell (Cambridge: Computer Laboratory and Crucible)) 2016-01-21 14:00: An experimental assay of the genotype to phenotype connection. (Dr Fyodor Kondrashov, Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona ) 2016-01-21 14:00: Decomposition and Structured Model Reduction for Large Scale Systems Analysis (James Anderson, University of Oxford) 2016-01-21 14:30: Deep learning for time series (Christof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge)) 2016-01-21 15:00: Pelican: A Building Block for Exascale Cold Data Storage (Austin Donnelly (Microsoft Research, Cambridge)) 2016-01-21 16:00: Molecular engineering for sustainable energy applications (Jacqui Cole, Molecular Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-21 16:00: How the sins of your grandparents affect your health (Dr Erica Watson PDN, Cambridge) 2016-01-22 13:15: Roles and mechanisms of the drivers of reprogramming (Jose Silva, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-22 14:00: Composite Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Biosensing and Bioimaging (Prof. Luis M. Liz-Marzan, Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director, CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain) 2016-01-22 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Miguel Perez) 2016-01-22 16:00: Dispersion of swimming microoganisms in confined flows (Martin Bees (University of York)) 2016-01-22 16:00: Nonlinear shrinkage of Eigenvalues in Integrated Covolatility Matrix for Portfolio Allocation in High Frequency Data (Clifford Lam (LSE)) 2016-01-22 17:30: The Game of Crime and Punishment (Mrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-25 13:05: Why do I need to keep recharging my smart phone? (Simon George-Kelso, MediaTek) 2016-01-25 14:00: Who owns big data? Will machine learning systems extract cognitive rents from the poor? (Alan Blackwell (Computer Sciences, Cambridge)) 2016-01-25 14:15: Neural Adaptation Underlies Escalation in Dishonesty (Neil Garrett, University College London) 2016-01-25 15:00: Cost-effectiveness analysis of multiplex targeted sequencing in lung adenocarcinoma (Brett Doble, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research) 2016-01-25 16:30: "Plastic Transcriptomes and Proteomes at Synapses" (Erin Schuman, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) 2016-01-25 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs (Professor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine) 2016-01-26 20:00: SciSoc Talk: Dame Julia Slingo (Dame Julia Slingo) 2016-01-27 12:00: Ethics of Big Data in practice: Patient record linkage in hospitals (Dr Lydia Drumright (University of Cambridge, Department of Medicine)) 2016-01-27 14:00: Mining scientific diagrams for semantic information (Dr Peter Murray-Rust) 2016-01-27 17:30: Cancer by the Numbers (Professor Simon Tavaré) 2016-01-27 20:15: Deep Learning with the Analytical Engine (Adam P. Goucher, Trinity College) 2016-01-28 11:15: Objects or Data: Alternative interaction models to OOP (Luke Church (University of Cambridge)) 2016-01-28 14:00: Single cell RNA-sequencing reveals a continuous spectrum of differentiation in haematopoietic cells. (Dr Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge) 2016-01-28 14:30: Random projection ensemble classification (Timothy Cannings) 2016-01-28 15:00: An Overview on Bigraphs, Their Applications, and Future Research Directions (Michele Sevegnani (University of Glasgow)) 2016-01-28 15:00: Encore by Numbers: importing very large data volumes from a variety of messy sources (Joshua Pencheon, National Cancer Registration Service (Eastern)) 2016-01-29 12:00: Sentence Entailment in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics (Esma Balkır) 2016-01-29 13:15: TF-mediated epigenetic memory in ES cells (Pablo Navarro, Institut Pasteur Dep. of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Paris, France) 2016-01-29 14:00: Droplet-Based Microfluidics: High-Throughput Experimentation One Drop at a Time (Prof. Andrew J. deMello, Professor of Biochemical Engineering Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 1, 8093, Zürich, Switzerland) 2016-01-29 14:00: Instability-induced nonlinear dynamics in solids and structures: from snapping structures to ferroelectric switching (Dr Dennis M Kochmann, Caltech) 2016-01-29 16:00: Instabilities in shear-thinning viscoelastic fluids: a long story (Helen Wilson (UCL)) 2016-01-29 16:00: The data-driven (s,S) policy: why you can have confidence in censored demand data (Gah-Yi Vahn (London School of Business)) 2016-01-29 17:30: Wittgenstein's Games (Professor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities) 2016-02-01 09:00: Manufacturing Analytics - The role of Big Data in the Future of Manufacturing (Speakers include Boris Otto, Fraunhofer and Daniel Keely, Cisco) 2016-02-01 13:05: Simulating Worlds: Technical Challenges of Improbable SpatialOS (Rob Whitehead, Improbable) 2016-02-01 15:30: Machine Learning Techniques for 3D Registration with Images (Professor Vincent Lepetit of Graz University of Technology, Austria) 2016-02-01 19:30: Depicting the Dead and Verifying the Visage Facial identification:Forensic and Archaeological Application (Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Director, Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University) 2016-02-02 14:30: "Genomic prediction of complex human traits: relatedness, trait architecture and predictive meta-models" (Dr Athina Spiliopoulou University of Edinburgh) 2016-02-03 09:30: What I Learned From Inventing Scala Macros? (Eugene Burmako, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 2016-02-03 09:30: What I Learned From Inventing Scala Macros? (Eguene Burmako, Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne) 2016-02-03 12:30: Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis (Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-03 14:00: Cellular Systems Biology of Chromosome Dynamics (Dr Karen Lipkow, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre) 2016-02-03 16:00: Deep Learning on Geometric Data (Davide Boscaini (Università della Svizzera Italiana)) 2016-02-03 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-02-04 11:15: Deep Learning on geometric data (Davide Boscaini, Università della Svizzera Italiana) 2016-02-04 13:00: Big data, local data and global change (Philip Grime, University of Sheffield) 2016-02-04 14:00: Variational Inference in Gaussian Processes for non-linear time series (Carl Edward Rasmussen, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-04 14:15: Network information theoretic results for classical-quantum channels in the information spectrum setting (Naqueeb Warsi, University of Oxford) 2016-02-04 19:00: Supercomputing for your data. (Sean McGuire, Research Institutional Services, University of Cambridge.) 2016-02-05 12:00: Multilingual Image Description with Neural Sequence Models (Eva Hasler, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-05 13:15: Using outbred genetics to explore Drosophilia development (Ewan Birney, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge) 2016-02-05 14:00: Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings (Professor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy) 2016-02-05 14:00: Adhesion of Volcanic Ashes in Gas Turbines and Potential Effects on Thermal Barrier Coatings (Professor Bill Clyne, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy) 2016-02-05 16:00: Understanding development – A computational morphodynamics approach (Henrik Jönsson (Sainsbury's Laboratory)) 2016-02-05 16:00: Statistical algorithms and planted satisfiability problems (Will Perkins (Birmingham)) 2016-02-05 17:30: Games in Sports (Sir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky) 2016-02-08 14:15: A distributed, hierarchical and recurrent model of choice (Laurence Hunt, University College London) 2016-02-08 16:30: "Function and modulation of sensory TRP channels" (Thomas Voets, Laboratory of Ion Channel Research, University of Leuven, Belgium) 2016-02-08 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence (Professor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering) 2016-02-09 14:30: "Understanding the role of secondary outcomes in multivariate meta-analysis" (Professor John Copas, University of Warwick) 2016-02-10 11:00: Long-term tracking of human pose in videos (Dr James Charles, Research Fellow at the University of Leeds: Computer Vision - Machine Learning - Probabilistic modeling) 2016-02-10 12:00: Ethics of Big Data in practice: Administrative data (Andy Boyd (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children - ALSPAC)) 2016-02-10 14:00: Comparative genomics of RNA viruses (Dr Andrew Firth, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.) 2016-02-10 14:00: Predicting Psychology from Social Media Data (Dr David Stillwell - Judge Management School, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-10 19:40: Constraint Programming (Laura Nechita, Newnham College) 2016-02-11 11:15: A Model of Local Adaptation (Rafal Mantiuk (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-11 14:00: Checkpoint and non-checkpoint functions of Drosophila Mad1 and RZZ. (Professor Roger Karess, Institut Jacques Monod, Université Paris Diderot) 2016-02-11 14:00: Humanitarian Technologies (Dr Mirca Madianou (Media and Communications, Goldsmiths) & Dr Jonathan Ong (Media and Communication, Leicester)) 2016-02-11 14:00: Computable analysis and control synthesis of complex dynamical systems via formal verification (Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford) 2016-02-11 14:30: Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPs (Yarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-11 15:00: OS Design for Modern Hardware (Prof. Timothy Roscoe (ETHZ)) 2016-02-11 15:30: Human neuroscience in the wild (Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial) 2016-02-11 16:00: Probing the mechanisms of learning and memory at the single-neuron level in humans (Dr Ueli Rutishauser California Institute of Technology) 2016-02-12 12:00: Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian Eyes (Yarin Gal, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-12 12:00: Probabilistic synapses (Laurence Aitchison) 2016-02-12 13:00: Strategies for managing social media research data – A digital methods development workshop organised by Cambridge University Library and the Digital Humanities Network. (Katrin Weller, GESIS. Sara Day Thomson, Digital Preservation Coalition.) 2016-02-12 13:15: Two for the price of one: twinning – the ultimate regeneration (Claudio Stern, Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London) 2016-02-12 14:00: The Ductility of 2D Cellular Solids: the Role of Imperfections (Dr William Ronan, CUED) 2016-02-12 16:00: Instability associated with internal solitary waves (Magda Carr (University of St Andrews)) 2016-02-12 16:00: Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans (Rui Castro (Eindhoven)) 2016-02-12 17:30: "Losing the New Great Game" (Dr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer) 2016-02-15 13:05: Real Processors for Real-time (Antony John Penton, Senior Principal Engineer, CPU Group, ARM Holdings, Cambridge, UK) 2016-02-16 14:00: Do You See What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users (Sheharbano Khattak, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-17 10:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Misha Kapushesky) 2016-02-17 13:05: Kotlin: What it takes to make a programming language (Andrey Breslav, Lead Language Designer and Project Manager, JetBrains) 2016-02-17 14:00: Clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils (Dr Elizabeth Murchison) 2016-02-17 16:00: Equality condition for the data processing inequality of the quantum relative entropy (Felix Leditzky (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-17 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-02-17 18:30: Analysing the transcriptome of cells: computational challenges and applications of single cell RNA-sequencing (Dr Catalina Vallejos (MRC Biostatistics Unit & EMBL-EBI) & Dr Antonio Scialdone (EMBL-EBI)) 2016-02-17 19:30: Protein Folding Homeostasis (Professor David Ron, MD, FMedSci, FRS | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research) 2016-02-17 20:10: Rinocloud (Eoin Murray, Rinocloud) 2016-02-18 13:00: Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predisposition and Household Financial Behaviour (Michael Haliassos holds the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt and is Director of the newly launched CEPR Network on Household Finance, Fellow of CEPR and NETSPAR, and advisor to the ECB and ESMA.) 2016-02-18 13:00: Talklet -- DTG and AI group (Diana A. Vasile, Naruemon Pratanwanich (Ploy)) 2016-02-18 13:00: Rainbow Group Part II project presentations (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-02-18 14:00: Role of neuromesodermal progenitors in axial elongation. (Professor Val Wilson, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, The University of Edinburgh ) 2016-02-18 14:00: Stability and power sharing in microgrids (Johannes Schiffer, University of Leeds) 2016-02-18 14:30: Natural gradient descent and variational inference (Mark van der Wilk; Alex Matthews ) 2016-02-18 15:00: Exploring the Web Frontier (Gareth Tyson (Queen Mary University of London)) 2016-02-18 16:00: Parietal cortex and action space (Prof. Roberto Caminiti) 2016-02-18 18:00: Smart infrastructure and construction - the challenges and opportunities for the use of sensors in monitoring infrastructure and construction (Dr. Jennifer Schooling, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC)) 2016-02-19 10:00: Regularized Optimal Transport and Applications (Marco Cuturi, Kyoto University) 2016-02-19 11:30: A more Automated Statistician (David Janz, Oxford University) 2016-02-19 12:00: What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network Model (Mark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory) 2016-02-19 13:15: Period and pattern in the embryo (Andrew Oates The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2016-02-19 16:00: Pattern formation in confined nematic systems: the interplay between geometry, anisotropy and singularities (Apala Majumdar (University of Bath)) 2016-02-19 17:30: Games for the Brain (Professor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-21 10:45: [TMS Symposium] So Your Experiment Hasn’t Worked: How to Lie with Statistics (Mary Fortune) 2016-02-21 11:20: [TMS Symposium] Smashing the Racket: Detecting Match-fixing in Tennis via In-play Betting Irregularities (Dr. Jonathan Nelson (ATASS Sports) ) 2016-02-21 12:45: [TMS Symposium] Semantics (Jean Pichon) 2016-02-21 14:15: [TMS Symposium] Mutations in Developmental Disorders (Patrick Short) 2016-02-22 10:00: Pitch@Palace Biotech Boot Camp (Speakers to be confirmed) 2016-02-22 14:15: Determinants of economic choice and information-seeking behavior (Caroline Charpentier, University College London) 2016-02-22 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Does walking or cycling to work improve psychological wellbeing? Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey (Adam Martin, RAND Europe & Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research) 2016-02-22 16:30: "Breaking symmetry in the brain – from genes to circuits and behaviour" (Steve Wilson, University College London) 2016-02-22 18:00: Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease (Professor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2016-02-23 09:30: Freeform interactions and disrupted displays (David Sweeney, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2016-02-23 13:05: The Real Villains in Online Games (Philip Bielby, Jagex) 2016-02-23 13:35: Why Big Data & Games go hand in hand (Chris Smith, Jagex) 2016-02-23 14:30: "The Implications of Differential Clustering for the Analysis of Binary Outcome Measures" (Dr Chris Roberts, University of Manchester) 2016-02-24 11:00: 'Designing in' informal interaction in bioscience architecture: design intent and scientists' practices (Alison McDougall-Weil, Engineering Design Centre) 2016-02-24 12:00: Ethics of Big Data in practice: Social media research (Dr Dhiraj Murthy (Goldsmiths, Department of Sociology)) 2016-02-24 14:00: Circulating tumour cells: a model from breast cancer to bone metastasis (Dr Gianluca Ascolani) 2016-02-24 15:00: Data Science at The Guardian (Felix Sanchez-Garcia, The Guardian) 2016-02-24 15:00: Data Science at The Guardian (Felix Sanchez-Garcia, The Guardian) 2016-02-24 16:00: Gaussian process tools for exoplanet detection and characterisation (Vinesh Rajpaul (Oxford)) 2016-02-25 13:00: Rainbow Group Part II project presentations (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-02-25 14:30: Learning by learning rich generative models (Thang Bui (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-25 15:00: Is every java program a unikernel? An introduction to IncludeOS' design and foundations (Alfred Bratterud (HiOA)) 2016-02-25 15:00: Bayesian factorization of multiple data sources (Professor Samuel Kaski, Professor of Computer Science, Aalto University) 2016-02-25 16:00: ‘Of mice and men -­ and birds, too: how to pack lots of neurons in tiny brains, and why that should matter (Pr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) 2016-02-25 18:00: Introduction to RNAcentral, a non-coding RNA sequence database (Anton Petrov (EBI)) 2016-02-26 12:00: Understanding generative learning in the individual brain (Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge)) 2016-02-26 13:15: Live imaging and genetic analyses of transformed cell extrusion from the zebrafish embryonic epithelium (Masazumi Tada Dep. of Cell & Developmental Biology, UCL, London) 2016-02-26 14:00: Conformational Spread: The Propagation of Allosteric States in Large Multiprotein Complexes (Prof. Dennis Bray, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-26 14:00: Dynamic stability of structures under high loading rates by localized perturbation approach (Professor Nicolas Triantafyllidis, Ecole Polytechnique) 2016-02-26 16:00: Soft & Wet Chemical Robots (Prof Shingo Maeda, Shibaura Institute of Technology) 2016-02-26 16:00: The structure and decay of turbulence at high-Reynolds-numbers (Gregory Bewley (Max Planck Institute Göttingen)) 2016-02-26 16:00: Statistically optimal robust estimation of the precision matrix by convex programming (Arnak Dalayan (ENSAE)) 2016-02-26 17:30: Games Animals Play (Professor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge) 2016-02-26 19:30: Should more scientists become data scientists? (Marc Warner) 2016-02-29 14:15: An introduction to Rinocloud a new data sharing hub (Mr Eoin Murray ( University of Cambridge, Semiconductor Physics Group)) 2016-02-29 14:30: Are smartphone messaging apps and traditional telecommunication services substitute goods? (Nicolas Karsten, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)) 2016-02-29 16:30: "Neurobiology of Economic Decisions" (Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, Washington University, St Louis) 2016-02-29 19:30: EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story (Dr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society) 2016-03-01 12:00: Ethics of Big Data in practice: Inside an Ethics Committee (Alan Blackwell (Cambridge: Computer Laboratory and Crucible) - Chair. Panelists are drawn from a range of disciplines. ) 2016-03-01 12:30: When To Go It Alone: Startups, Alliances, and Resource Accumulation (Professor Bart Vanneste, Associate Professor (Reader) in the Strategy & Entrepreneurship group of UCL School of Management ) 2016-03-01 14:30: "Design for ABC and history matching with Gaussian processes" (Dr Richard Wilkinson, Sheffield University) 2016-03-01 15:00: Accelerated photoacoustic imaging (Marta Betcke, University College London) 2016-03-01 16:00: Global Parallel Computation, Networks and Geometry (Peter Braam (Braam Research LLC, USA)) 2016-03-01 19:45: Inside the beast: GHC’s intermediate lambda language (Prof Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2016-03-02 14:00: Using C. elegans to learn principles of eukaryotic chromatin regulation (Julie Ahringer, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2016-03-02 16:00: Future Farming – Technologists’ Fantasy or Grower Game‐Changer? (Dr Belinda Clarke, Agri‐Tech East) 2016-03-02 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2016 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-03-02 17:30: Democracy and its Discontents (Professor John Shattuck, Central European University) 2016-03-02 18:00: Mind the gap: Science broadcasting and public engagement (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-03-02 18:30: Sequencing Ebola virus in an insect filled tent; how real-time next generation sequencing aided the epidemic response. (Professor Ian Goodfellow (Division of Virology, Department of Pathology) and Dr Matt Cotten (Sanger Centre)) 2016-03-02 19:30: Lifting the world out of poverty (Dr Max Roser) 2016-03-03 14:00: Gene and Genome Regulation in Early Fruit Fly Neurogenesis. (Dr. Robert Zinzen, Max-Delbruck-Center Berlin) 2016-03-03 14:00: Model Predictive Control for changing operation conditions (Daniel Limon, University of Seville) 2016-03-03 14:30: Probabilistic programming (Hong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog) 2016-03-03 15:00: Do Not Believe Everything You Read in the Papers (Tim Harris (Oracle Labs, Cambridge, UK)) 2016-03-03 16:00: Astrocyte-like glia during visual circuit assembly in Drosophila (Iris Salecker) 2016-03-03 16:30: Rumours, Diseases and Drugs: Tackling Textual Data for Knowledge Discovery in Health (Nigel Collier, University of Cambridge) 2016-03-03 19:00: Deep Learning in Industry and Research powered by GPUs (Jack Watts, Nvidia) 2016-03-04 11:00: General-Purpose Representation Learning from Words to Sentences (Felix Hill (University of Cambridge)) 2016-03-04 11:00: ALGORITHMIC PREDICTION IN POLICING: ASSUMPTIONS, EVALUATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY (Lyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales) 2016-03-04 13:15: Pair-rule patterning in Drosophila: how does it work, and what does it tell us about short-germ segmentation (Erik Clark (Akam lab) Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2016-03-04 14:00: Isolating Invisible Dynamics in the Design of Robust Hybrid Internal Models (Lorenzo Marconi, University of Bologna) 2016-03-04 16:00: Mixed up by Buoyancy (Andy Woods (BP Institute)) 2016-03-04 16:00: Information bounds for inverse problems with application to deconvolution and Lévy models (Mathias Trabs (CEREMADE, Paris Dauphine)) 2016-03-04 17:30: The Game Theory of Conflict (Dr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland) 2016-03-06 12:05: Next-generation computer-memory technology: crossover between physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering (Dr Stephen Elliott) 2016-03-07 14:15: Economic irrationality is optimal during noisy decision-making (Konstantinos Tsetsos, Birkbeck, University of London) 2016-03-07 16:30: "Pathways specifying cell fates in the Drosophila CNS”. (Stefan Thor, Linkoping University, Sweden) 2016-03-07 18:00: Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease (Professor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry) 2016-03-08 13:15: Personal Program Analysis (Dr Julian Tibble, VP Applications Engineering at Semmle Ltd) 2016-03-08 16:00: Citizen Media Research and Verification: An Analytical Framework for Human Rights (Christoph Koettl, Senior Analyst, Amnesty International) 2016-03-08 17:00: Into the Mountains: The Extraordinary True Story of Survival in the Andes and its Aftermath (Pedro Algorta) 2016-03-09 14:00: The geometry of uncertainty (Fabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University) 2016-03-09 16:00: Modelling the Human Eye: A look at statistical and machine learning techniques (Adam Kashlak (CCA)) 2016-03-09 17:00: If you don't have data you're just another person with an opinion (Dr Tim Leunig, Department for Education Chief Scientific Adviser and Chief Analyst) 2016-03-10 15:00: Measuring Urban Social Diversity Using Interconnected Geo-Social Networks (Desislava Hristova (Computer Lab)) 2016-03-10 16:00: Endothelial Cells and HIF transcription factors regulating lung pre-disposition for metastatic events (Dr Cristina Branco, PDN Cambridge) 2016-03-11 12:00: Tracing concepts through time (Gabriel Recchia (University of Cambridge)) 2016-03-11 14:30: Communities and privacy in mobile phone social networks (Vincent Blondel, Université catholique de Louvain) 2016-03-11 16:00: Stability analysis of planar interfacial jets and films: does surface tension stabilize, and what about the viscosity ratio? (Outi Tammisola (University of Nottingham)) 2016-03-11 16:30: Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series (Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director University of Glasgow) 2016-03-12 14:00: Cambridge Science Festival - Big Data: the missing link (Adrien Arculeo) 2016-03-14 14:15: Measuring the Impact of Social Relationships: The Value of 'Oneness' (Fabio Tufano, University of Nottingham) 2016-03-14 19:30: Churchill's Bomb (Dr Graham Farmelo,Physicist, Author, Historian) 2016-03-15 10:15: Parallel Inference and Learning with Deep Structured Distributions (Alexander Schwing, University of Toronto) 2016-03-16 09:30: Modelling and visualising large and complex datasets to guide active travel policies: a case study from the Propensity to Cycle Tool (Dr James Woodcock, CEDAR & MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge & Dr Robin Lovelace, School of Geography, University of Leeds) 2016-03-16 09:30: Interpreting results from analysis with big data: examples from epidemiology (Darren Greenwood, Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine) 2016-03-16 09:30: Big Data and the Obesity Epidemic (Adam Drewnowski, School of Public Health, University of Washington) 2016-03-16 09:30: Stamping Out Concurrency Bugs (Baris Kasikci, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 2016-03-16 10:00: It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrine (Tom Dean, Google Research) 2016-03-16 11:00: The stabilized supralinear network: A simple "balanced network" mechanism explaining nonlinear cortical integration (Ken Miller, Columbia University) 2016-03-16 14:00: Network-aware approach for energy assets planning (operation & maintenance) and control (Khashayar Mahani (Rutgers University)) 2016-03-16 14:00: Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural Assumptions (Jacob Steinhardt (Stanford University)) 2016-03-16 14:30: Ocean Heat and Hot air (with apologies to David MacKay) (Prof. Charles F Kennel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego) 2016-03-17 15:00: On PCIe Performance (Rolf Neugebauer (Docker, Inc)) 2016-03-17 17:30: "Rowing, statistics, and my genes: a cautionary tale" (Professor Lorenz Wernisch, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2016-03-17 18:30: MRI-THE WONDER MACHINE: FROM BLUE SKIES TO EVERY DAY USAGE (Richard V Aldridge, UEA) 2016-03-18 09:00: Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING (Organisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS) 2016-03-18 14:00: Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) the next generation (David Marshall IIOT ltd) 2016-03-18 14:00: Texts Come from People - How Demographic Factors Influence NLP Models (Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen) 2016-03-18 14:00: Strain gradient plasticity: Numerical modeling and fracture assessment (Mr Emilio Martinez Paneda, PhD candidate at University of Oviedo (Spain)) 2016-03-19 11:30: Hands-On Maths Fair (Cambridge Science Festival) 2016-03-21 11:00: Brain State Control by Closed-Loop Environmental Feedback (Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute) 2016-03-21 14:45: Inferring neural circuit mechanisms that underlie memory storage and decision making in the human brain (Helen Barron, University of Oxford) 2016-03-22 10:15: Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality ( Pedro Ortega, University of Pennsylvania) 2016-03-22 12:00: ELPEC Lunchtime Seminar: Understanding Teacher Retention (Dr Rebecca Allen, Director of the Education Datalab) 2016-03-22 14:00: Understanding, Characterizing, and Detecting Facebook Like Farms (Dr. Emiliano De Cristofaro, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University College London) 2016-03-22 14:30: "Better prediction by use of co-data: Adaptive group-regularized ridge regression" (Dr Mark van de Wiel, VU University Medical Center and VU university, Amsterdam) 2016-03-29 09:30: General-purpose representation learning from words to sentences (Felix Hill, University of Cambridge) 2016-03-29 11:00: Pony: Co-Designing a Type System and a Runtime (Sylvan Clebsch, Imperial College London) 2016-03-31 14:30: Fast Fusion of Multi-band Images: A Powerful Tool for Super-resolution (Qi Wei (University of Cambridge)) 2016-03-31 15:00: A Decade of IoT Standard Communication Protocols (Carles Gomez Montenegro (UPC)) 2016-03-31 19:00: Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry (Alissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) 2016-04-04 19:00: Book Event: Meet the Authors (Speakers to be confirmed) 2016-04-05 11:00: Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming System (Jan-Willem van de Meent (Oxford)) 2016-04-06 11:00: Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness Problem (Dr Torsten Sattler, ) 2016-04-07 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Alena Puchkova (University of Cambridge)) 2016-04-07 14:30: Variational Methods and Compressed Sensing (Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge)) 2016-04-07 19:15: Genome-wide association studies: in search of common and low frequency variants in complex traits (Ioanna Tachmazidou, Sanger Institute) 2016-04-08 09:45: Scalable algorithms for Markov process parameter inference (Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle University)) 2016-04-08 12:00: Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail Locations (Sandro Bauer (University of Cambridge)) 2016-04-11 09:30: CASIM VIII: Reproducibility Workshop follow up (Gord Brown (CRUK) and Ines de Santiago (CRUK)) 2016-04-11 10:00: CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 1 - Buggy science: improving bioinformatics software quality (John Davey (Zoology) and Gord Brown (CRUK) with Jennifer Liddle (WTSI) and Irina Colgiu (WTSI)) 2016-04-11 11:30: CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 2: 3D genomics (Tim Stevens, with Robert Beagrie (MDC Berllin), Paula Freire Pritchitt (Babraham Intstitute)) 2016-04-11 12:30: CASIM VIII: RISING STARS TALKS - Emergence and progression of naive pluripotency in mammalian embryogenesis (Thorsten Boroviak (WT-MRC Stem Cell Institute)) 2016-04-11 12:45: CASIM VIII: RISING STARS TALKS - A landscape of pharmacogenomics interactions in cancer (Francesco Iorio (EBI)) 2016-04-11 14:00: CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 3 - Hot topics in transcriptomics (Irene Papatheodorous and Catalina Vallejos, with Angela Goncalves (WTSI), Davis McCarthy (EBI)) 2016-04-11 15:00: CASIM VIII: DISCUSSION 4 - Analysis of cancer genomes (Geoff Macintyre (CRUK)) 2016-04-11 16:30: CASIM VIII: KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Ebola to Zika: portable nanopore sequencing for outbreak surveillance (Josh Quick (University of Birmingham)) 2016-04-12 19:00: Take-away TV: Recharging Work Commutes with Predictive Preloading of Catch-up TV Content (King's College London) 2016-04-13 14:00: A Bayesian Approach to Molecular Communication (Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia) 2016-04-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation 2016 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-04-14 12:15: Take two moments to gather your wits. Likelihood-free inference for within-host dynamics of bacterial infection (Olivier Restif (Department of Veterinary Medicine)) 2016-04-14 14:30: inference failures in probabilistic programming (Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd)) 2016-04-14 18:00: Frontiers of Operations (Dr Jane Davies, Director of the Cambridge MBA programme, CJBS) 2016-04-15 12:00: From passive to interactive (multimodal) language learning (Angeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento) 2016-04-15 16:00: Making do with less: optimal wrapping of liquid droplets with ultrathin sheets. (Joseph Paulsen (Syracuse University)) 2016-04-18 09:30: Why Privacy? A day-long interdisciplinary workshop at CRASSH (Speakers include Christena Nippert-Eng, Barbara Taylor, Josh Cohen, Mary Aiken, Eric King and David Vincent) 2016-04-18 11:00: Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness Problem (Dr Torsten Sattler is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Computer Vision and Geometry (CVG) Group of the Institute for Visual Computing of the Department of Computer Science> at ETH Zurich headed by Prof. Marc Pollefeys. Dr Sattler is working on the V-C) 2016-04-18 14:15: Hierarchical Neural Computations in Decision, Action, and Belief (Daniel McNamee, University of Cambridge) 2016-04-18 16:00: Digital Making: Encouraging creativity in the classroom and integrating STEAM project-based learning (Carrie Anne Philbin, Education Pioneer, Raspberry Pi Foundation) 2016-04-19 11:00: Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness Problem (Torsten Sattler, ETH Zurich) 2016-04-19 11:00: Large-Scale Camera Pose Voting and the Geometric Burstiness Problem (Torsten Sattler, ETH Zurich) 2016-04-20 09:30: Cambridge Mathematics and Big Data Showcase Event (Lectures, Exhibition and Networking) 2016-04-20 10:00: Synaptic origins of working memory capacity ( Misha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel ) 2016-04-20 17:00: Policy considerations for the continual advancement of space activity in the XXI century (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-04-21 13:00: Genome diversity and evolution of DNA methylation genome in the human genome. (Professor Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institut Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona) 2016-04-21 14:00: Architectural Issues in the Design of Model Predictive Control: From Centralized to Distributed (He Kong, Cranfield University) 2016-04-21 14:00: Scalable inference for a full multivariate stochastic volatility model (Prof. Petros Dellaportas, Dept. of Statistical Science, UCL) 2016-04-21 14:30: Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGo (Shixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah) 2016-04-21 15:00: Optimal-Performance Next-Generation (Datacenter) Networks (Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2016-04-21 16:00: Spatial homogeneity of seagrass faunal biodiversity (Pr. Richard S K Barnes, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2016-04-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Michael Strkyer, UCSF) 2016-04-22 13:00: Online Machine Learning Methods - Streams of Financially Important News. (Miles Osbourne, Bloomberg) 2016-04-22 14:00: Nanoscale organisation and dynamics of molecules and ions at the interface with solids in solution (Dr Kislon Voitchovsky, Lecturer in Soft Matter and Biological Physics. Durham University) 2016-04-22 14:00: The statistical mechanics of single cells (Professor Vikram Deshpande, CUED) 2016-04-22 15:30: Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science (Steve Oliver (Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry; Director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre)) 2016-04-22 16:00: Closing the loop: adjoint-based methods for flow stability, control and mixing (Colm Caulfield (DAMTP/BPI)) 2016-04-25 11:00: PCC: Re-architecting Congestion Control for Consistent High Performance (Michael Schapira, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2016-04-25 13:05: Bitcoin – Design Demystified (Alexey Akhunov, JPMorgan) 2016-04-25 13:30: Admitting more tenants with tail latency SLOs (Timothy Zhu, CMU) 2016-04-25 14:00: Technology Transparency & Social Responsibility (Professor Natasa Milic-Frayling, Nottingham) 2016-04-25 14:15: How acute stress impairs self-control in goal-directed choice: Behavioral and neural evidence (Silvia Maier, University of Zurich) 2016-04-25 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Social Health Insurance and Treatment-Seeking Behaviour - Evidence from the Chinese New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (Dr Miaoqing Yang, Cambridge Centre for Health Services Research, RAND Europe) 2016-04-26 14:00: "Social media and political turbulence" (Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute)) 2016-04-26 14:30: "Some aspects in high-dimensional Bayesian model choice" (Dr David Rossell, University of Warwick) 2016-04-26 17:00: Engineering the Future: an open evening for women in engineering (Christopher Bishop, Microsoft Research, Abigail Sellen, Microsoft Research, Matthew Johnson, Microsoft Research) 2016-04-27 13:05: Data-driven Retail (Dhruv Kumar,The Hut Group) 2016-04-27 14:00: From Human Affect and Personality to Social Robots: Affective and Social Signal Processing (Dr Hatice Gunes - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory) 2016-04-27 16:15: The Astropy Project and open-source software development in Astronomy (Thomas Robitaille) 2016-04-27 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-04-27 17:15: Capitalism and human welfare in the hi-tech/hi-touch world (Lord Adair Turner, Senior Fellow at the Institute of New Economic Thinking) 2016-04-27 18:30: Open Data and Reproducibility (Dr. Marta Teperek and Dr. Kirstie Whitaker) 2016-04-28 11:15: Lightfield Media Production Systems for Enhanced Creativity in Post-Production (Frederik Zilly (Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany)) 2016-04-28 13:00: Time and value: traps and fallacies of asset pricing (Dean Buckner (Bank of England)) 2016-04-28 13:10: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: The rise of computational creativity (Jack Hopkins, Computer Laboratory) 2016-04-28 14:00: A Step Towards Dynamic Modeling of Asset Criticality (Joel Adams (University of Cambridge)) 2016-04-28 14:00: Beyond the reference genome:  inference using prior knowledge of the diversity of a species. (Dr Zamin Iqbal, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford ) 2016-04-28 14:00: Design Considerations for Economic MPC (Muyiwa Olanrewaju, University of Cambridge) 2016-04-28 14:30: Topics in Expectation Propagation (Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner) 2016-04-28 16:00: Raising the whale: defining zoology at Cambridge (Prof Jim Secord, Department of History and Philosophy of Science) 2016-04-28 19:15: Risk prediction for primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases (Lisa Pennells, Department of Public Health and Primary Care) 2016-04-29 12:00: Maternal Health in Uganda: Listen Intelligently to Local Voices combining Language and Technology (Claudia Abreu Lopes, Africa's Voices) 2016-04-29 14:00: Mechanics Colloquium: 'Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissue' (Professor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow) 2016-04-29 14:00: Modelling non-symmetry of collagen fibre dispersion in the elasticity of arterial wall tissue (Professor Raymond Ogden, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow) 2016-04-29 14:00: Onsager Principle -A useful principle in soft matter dynamics - (Prof. Masao Doi. Center of Soft Matter Physics and its Applications, Internationa Research Center, Beihang University, Beijing, China) 2016-04-29 16:00: Wall-bounded turbulence is not due to the wall (Javier Jimenez (Uni. Politecnica de Madrid)) 2016-05-03 13:15: Teaching The World To Code: How A Cambridge Grad Earned £1m Teaching Online (Rob Percival, Codestars) 2016-05-03 14:30: "The analysis of variance and the analysis of causes" (Prof Neil Pearce, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 2016-05-04 11:00: Turbocharging Rack-Scale In-Memory Computing with Scale-Out NUMA (Boris Grot - University of Edinburgh) 2016-05-04 16:00: 100 years after William Bateson - what can we learn about epistasis by today's statistical machine learning? (Professor Jukka Corander, Bayesian Statistics Group, University of Helsinki) 2016-05-05 11:15: A Live, Multiple-Representation Probabilistic Programming Environment for Novices (Maria Gorinova (University of Cambridge)) 2016-05-05 14:30: An introduction to Bayesian nonparametrics: some inference schemes for infinite mixture models (Maria Lomeli) 2016-05-05 16:00: The behavioural ecology of bacteria in infection (Dr. Ashleigh S. Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, UK) 2016-05-05 16:00: CANCELLED The pioneering history of IVF from the PND* Laboratory, Cambridge: 1976-2016, and what we know now! (Prof. Simon Fishel, CARE Fertility group) 2016-05-05 19:00: IoT: What could possibly go wrong. Jon Cowcroft, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge. (Jon Cowcroft, Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.) 2016-05-06 13:15: Division versus differentiation in development and disease (Anna Philpott, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/ MRC Research Centre, Cambridge ) 2016-05-06 13:30: 2nd Year PhD Student Talk Competition (DAMTP) 2016-05-06 14:00: Hydrogen embrittlement in steels (Professor Norman Fleck, CUED) 2016-05-06 15:00: Vibration based Structural Health Monitoring: from Bridges to Wind Turbines (Filipe Magalhães Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal) 2016-05-06 15:30: The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity (Murray Shanahan (Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London)) 2016-05-09 13:00: Research Group: 'Convening citizen engagement: why mediation matters for audience participation in interactive broadcast shows' (Dr Claudia Abreu Lopes; Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Africa's Voices; CGHR)) 2016-05-09 14:15: Control of entropy in internal models (Jill O'Reilly, University of Oxford) 2016-05-09 16:30: "Hijacking of NMDA receptor signalling by tumors" (Professor Douglas Hanahan, Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) 2016-05-10 14:30: "Improved ranking and selection for large-scale inference" (Prof Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 2016-05-10 15:00: Bounded Control that Preserves System Stability and its Applications (Qing-Chang Zhong, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and University of Sheffield) 2016-05-11 11:30: Gotta Go Fast: Futhark - A Data-Parallel Purely Functional Language and its Optimising GPGPU Compiler (Troels Henriksen (DIKU)) 2016-05-11 16:00: Combining GPS Data with Physics-Based Models to Improve Earthquake and Volcano Forecasting (Prof Paul Segall, Standford University) 2016-05-11 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - II (Note Room Change) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-05-12 11:00: Visit to the Maxwell Centre exhibition "Into the boundless space I leap" (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-05-12 13:00: A Hausman Test for the Presence of Market Microstructure Noise in High Frequency Data (Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Otto A. Hack 1903 Professor of Finance and Economics ) 2016-05-12 13:00: “Careers in the post-genomic Age for Engineers and Scientists” (Dr Darrin Disley, CEO of Horizon Discovery Group Plc ) 2016-05-12 14:00: Quantum control and quantum synchronization (Andreas Nunnenkamp, University of Cambridge) 2016-05-13 10:00: The Socio-Digital Construction of Reality: New Challenges for IS Research (Youngjin Yoo) 2016-05-13 11:00: MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical Models (Kui Tang, Columbia University) 2016-05-13 13:05: A Career In Ethical Hacking (Alex King, Director, LD Capital Services.) 2016-05-13 13:15: Dissecting mammalian 3D genome architecture with Capture Hi-C (Stefan Schoenfelder (Fraser lab) Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2016-05-13 14:00: Bespoke Crystals: Using Bio-Inspired Approaches to Generate Crystals with Target Properties (Prof. Fiona Meldrum, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds) 2016-05-13 16:00: Convection and skin formation in drying colloidal dispersions: laboratory experiments and implications for planetary mantle dynamics (Anne Davaille (Uni. Paris-Sud, CNRS)) 2016-05-16 13:00: 1st Batchelor Lecture: Physics of weightlifting (Christophe Clanet (École polytechnique)) 2016-05-16 16:00: Scott Lecture I - You may find yourself with a beautiful Higgs Boson and 6 beautiful quarks, and you may ask yourself – Well… How did I get here? (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University) 2016-05-16 16:00: Gene-drug interaction screens in cancer (Sebastian Nijman (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Oxford)) 2016-05-16 19:30: Probing the Polar Oceans (Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey) 2016-05-17 11:00: Pushing the limits of analytical electron microscopy with data science (Francisco de la Pena, Electron Microscopy Group, University of Cambridge) 2016-05-18 14:00: What does the operating system ever do for me? - Systems Challenges in Graph Analytics ( Dr Tim Harris - Oracle Research Laboratories (Cambridge)) 2016-05-18 16:00: Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings. (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University) 2016-05-18 16:00: Generating Natural-Language Video Descriptions using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks (Raymond Mooney, University of Texas) 2016-05-19 11:15: How do users develop trust in ehealth services? (Tanja Schomann (University of Cambridge)) 2016-05-19 15:00: Approximate Smoothing and Parameter Estimation in High-Dimensional State-Space Models (Dr Axel Finke, CUED) 2016-05-19 15:00: POLIS Department Seminar - Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour: Who Creates and Controls the Digital City? (Dr Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute) 2016-05-19 16:00: Transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils (Elizabeth Murchison, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge Veterinary School) 2016-05-19 16:30: Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age (Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)) 2016-05-19 17:30: "Mapping Health" (Professor Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2016-05-20 10:00: Resource Allocation for Next Generation of Radio Access Networks: how effective are my schedulers? (Bahar Partov Poor, Hamilton Institute Bell Laboratories) 2016-05-20 12:00: Conversation Trees: A Grammar Model for Topic Structure in Online Forums (Annie Louis, University of Essex) 2016-05-20 12:00: Perception as a closed-loop convergence process (Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute)) 2016-05-20 13:15: Building integrin adhesions in development and evolution (Nick Brown Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2016-05-20 14:00: Exploring soft matter with DNA (Prof. Tommaso Bellini. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale. Laboratory of Complex Fluids and Molecular Biophysics. Università degli Studi di Milano ) 2016-05-20 14:00: Investigating plastic yielding across the strain rates (Dr Beñat Gurrutxaga Lerma, Imperial College) 2016-05-20 16:00: Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond. (Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University) 2016-05-20 16:00: 2nd Batchelor Lecture: Sports ballistics (Christophe Clanet (École polytechnique)) 2016-05-20 16:00: Tail index estimation, concentration, adaptation... (Stéphane Boucheron (Paris Diderot)) 2016-05-20 17:30: Why Mathematical Proof? (Dana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) ) 2016-05-23 14:15: Towards a whole brain account of decisions for actions using high precision MEG (Sven Bestmann, University College London) 2016-05-23 17:00: Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures (Alison Bashford, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of Jesus College) 2016-05-24 14:00: Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic Modeling (Robert Peharz (TU Graz)) 2016-05-24 14:30: "Modelling the evolution of brain signals" (Dr Mark Fiecas, University of Warwick) 2016-05-24 14:30: "Sacrificing liberty, privacy and data security for cruise control? Smart Cars, Data Protection and Encryption" (Dr Florent Frederix (Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission)) 2016-05-25 14:30: A History of Virtualisation in Operating Systems. (Dr Andrew Herbert OBE, FREng..) 2016-05-25 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-05-25 18:30: Resource Sharing, Organization, and Databases (Chris Wilkinson and Tibor Auer) 2016-05-26 11:15: Learning to see with deep learning architectures for localisation and scene understanding (Alex Kendall (University of Cambridge)) 2016-05-26 11:30: The Future of Microprocessors (Ms Sophie Wilson FREng FRS) 2016-05-26 13:00: women@CL talklet -- NetOS, Security, and NLP group (Desislava Hristova, Sheharbano Khattak, Menglin Xia) 2016-05-26 14:00: Algebraic methods for parameter-free analysis of biochemical networks (Heather Harrington, University of Oxford) 2016-05-26 14:30: Learning polynomials with Neural Networks (Aldo Pacchiano (Berkeley)) 2016-05-26 15:00: Adaptive Group Sparsity Using the Ordered Weighted l1 Regularizer (Prof. Mario Figueiredo, Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico University of Lisbon, Portugal) 2016-05-26 16:00: Fly photoreceptors encode phase congruency (Prof Daniel Coca, University of Sheffield) 2016-05-27 11:00: Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech Recognition (Gabriel Synnaeve) 2016-05-27 12:00: Incremental CCG parsing and its applications (Bharat Ram Ambati, University of Edinburgh/Apple) 2016-05-27 13:15: Balancing forces during mitosis: from molecular motors up to tissue mechanics (Sarah Woolner, Faculty of life sciences, University of Manchester) 2016-05-27 14:00: A brief summary of 20 years of research into random dynamic systems (Professor Robin Langley, CUED) 2016-05-27 16:00: Instabilities and pattern formation on the pore scale (Anne Juel (Uni. of Manchester)) 2016-05-31 11:30: Towards a theory of layered neural circuit architectures (Alireza Alemi (École Normale Supérieure)) 2016-05-31 16:00: Perceptual decision-making: models of the decision-making process and formulation of uncertainty (David Zoltowski, University of Cambridge) 2016-06-01 14:15: Adventures in Little Data (Paul Ginsparg (Cornell)) 2016-06-02 09:30: Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in Julia (Hong Ge (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-02 10:30: Novel MCMC and SMC schemes for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models (Maria Lomeli (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-02 11:15: Clarifying hypotheses by sketching data (Mariana Marasoiu (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-02 11:30: Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximations (Alexander Matthews (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-02 14:30: Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) (Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro) 2016-06-02 15:00: Shrinkage Estimation in High Dimensions (Dr K. Pavan Srinath, CUED) 2016-06-02 19:00: Big data analytics for non-technical end-users. Erik Tromp, UnderstandLing. (Erik Tromp, CEO, UnderstandLing.) 2016-06-03 13:15: Cell fate imbalance in the Oesophageal Epithelium: mutant cell competition (Maria Alcolea Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge ) 2016-06-03 14:00: Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal Mathematics (Josef Urban) 2016-06-03 16:00: Harmonic and stochastic wavepackets in jets (Lutz Lesshaft (École polytechnique, CNRS)) 2016-06-03 16:00: A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables (Sarah Filippi (Oxford)) 2016-06-06 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Why is socioeconomic disadvantage associated with obesity? (Dr Pablo Monsivais, Centre for Diet and Activity Research, University of Cambridge) 2016-06-06 17:00: Naked Diplomacy: Power and statecraft in the digital age: book launch and presentation by Tom Fletcher, CMG (Tom Fletcher, CMG and former British Ambassador to Lebanon) 2016-06-06 19:30: Landing on a Comet (Professor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University) 2016-06-07 09:30: Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networks (Teppo Niinimäki (Helsinki)) 2016-06-07 10:30: Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical Models (Stephen Pasteris (UCL)) 2016-06-07 14:30: "Exploring dependence between categorical variables: Benefits and limitations of using variable selection within Bayesian clustering in relation to searching for interactions" (Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews) 2016-06-08 15:00: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2016 - IV (Note Early Start Time) (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-06-08 15:00: Scientific Data Visualization (Greg McInerny, University of Warwick - Craig Mills, Vizzuality - Cath Sleeman, Nesta) 2016-06-08 17:30: From Start-Up to Scale-Up: a fireside chat with Jon Reynolds, CEO and Co-Founder of SwiftKey (Jon Reynolds, CEO and Co-Founder of SwiftKey) 2016-06-08 19:30: My past 22 years at Cambridge (Prof. Kenichi Soga, Department of Engineering) 2016-06-09 11:00: Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity (Isabel Valera ) 2016-06-09 12:00: Extracting Hidden Hierarchies in Complex Spatial Biological and Physical Networks (Dr Carl D Modes (Rockefeller University, New York)) 2016-06-09 14:15: MAPTRAITS: Real-time Prediction of Trait Impressions from Nonverbal Behaviours (Oya Celiktutan (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-09 15:00: It’s not MPC! An Explicit Reference Governor for the supervision of constrained nonlinear systems (Emanuele Garone, Université Libre de Bruxelles) 2016-06-09 15:00: Exploiting Asymptotic Structure for Resolution Enhancement in Physical Imaging Systems (Dr Bogdan Roman, Computer Laboratory & DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2016-06-09 16:00: The roles of dopamine in perceptual and economic decision making (Dr Armin Lak, UCL) 2016-06-09 16:00: Monitoring and Modelling of Cast Iron Tunnel Linings (Matthew Wilcock, CUED) 2016-06-09 19:00: IMAGINE IF! Business Idea Accelerator Programme Launch Event (Jeroen Verheyen) 2016-06-10 10:00: Workshop on Visual Communication of Research and Data (Various) 2016-06-10 12:00: Strong Structural Priors for Neural Network Architectures (Tim Rocktäschel ( UCL)) 2016-06-10 13:00: Head and neck cancer: insights into aetiology and prognosis from a clinical cohort (Professor Andy Ness, Director, Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit, University of Bristol) 2016-06-10 15:00: Application of Persistent Homology to Biological Networks (Bernadette Stolz (Oxford)) 2016-06-10 16:00: A never ending journey. Singularities, slip, substrates and structure: challenges of modelling the moving contact line problem (Serafim Kalliadasis (Imperial College London)) 2016-06-13 10:00: The dynamics of clonal evolution (Dr Jamie Blundell, Levy Lab, The Laufer Center and The Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology Stony Brook University) 2016-06-13 16:00: Sex chromosomes in development and disease (James Turner (The Francis Crick Institute)) 2016-06-14 10:00: Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learning (Sixin Zhang (NYU)) 2016-06-14 11:00: Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task Learning (Yu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)) 2016-06-14 13:15: Integrating biological data: new opportunities and road ahead (Efi Tsamoura) 2016-06-14 15:00: A modular architecture for Unicode text compression (Adam Gleave (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (József Fiser (Central European University)) 2016-06-15 10:40: Learning with Errors: Post-Quantum Candidates from Noisy Linear Systems (Martin Albrecht (Royal Holloway, University of London)) 2016-06-15 14:00: Traditional and Genetic Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease: First versus Subsequent Events (Dr Riyaz Patel, Senior Clinical Research Fellow at Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UCL) 2016-06-16 14:00: Research overview: capability-based information management and application to VIPr project (Rieke Baerenfaenger (University of Cambridge / University of St. Gallen)) 2016-06-16 15:00: Ios: Why work when you can delegate? (Heidi Howard (Computer Laboratory)) 2016-06-16 16:00: Unraveling the role of astroglial perisynaptic nanodomains in synaptic strength and memory (Dr Nathalie Rouach, CIRB, College de France, Paris) 2016-06-16 18:30: Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED (Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge) 2016-06-17 10:00: Tracing memory circuits in Drosophila using whole-brain electron microscopy (Dr. Davi Bock, Janelia Research Campus ) 2016-06-17 10:30: A decision-theoretic framework for active cognition (Angela J. Yu, UCSD Cognitive Science) 2016-06-17 12:00: Nubo Influo - Developing a Computational Approach to Understanding Online Influence (Dr Martin Rehm (University Duisburg-Essen) and Dr Frank Cornelissen (University of Cambridge)) 2016-06-17 18:00: Future Debates: The Secrets of Your Genome (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-06-20 14:15: Constructing and updating models of the world (Mona Garvert, University College London) 2016-06-20 19:00: Sustainable Engineering and Design for the Built Environment (Professor Max Fordham OBE,RDI,FREng,MA,FCIBSE,Hon FRIBA) 2016-06-21 14:00: Cyberinsurance: good for your company, bad for your country? (Fabio Massacci - University of Trento) 2016-06-21 16:00: Rothschild Lecture: Mathematics for data-driven modeling - The science of crystal balls (Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton University)) 2016-06-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Sergio Bacallado) 2016-06-22 14:15: Metacognitive control of reinforcement learning and causal inference (Sang Wan Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) 2016-06-23 11:00: Anomalous Diffusion and Random Encounters in Living Systems (Scott McKinley (Tulane University)) 2016-06-23 14:15: The Rainbow Graphics and Interaction Group (Peter Robinson) 2016-06-23 16:00: Gene duplication and ion channel evolution in weakly electric fish (Prof Harold Zakon, UT Austin) 2016-06-27 09:00: International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC) - 2016 (27 - 29 June 2016, Robinson College) 2016-06-29 15:00: The transparent editorial process, data reproducibility and research integrity at EMBO Press (Dr Roberto Buccione, EMBO) 2016-06-30 10:30: Summer of Science Talks: An Introduction to Discrete Geometry, with application to the Principles of Concurrent Programming (Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2016-06-30 14:00: Practical Statically-checked Deterministic Parallelism (Ryan Newton, Indiana University) 2016-06-30 15:00: Managing Privacy Trade-Offs in the Internet (David Naylor (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2016-07-01 12:00: Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners (Menglin Xia (University of Cambridge)) 2016-07-01 16:00: Fluorescence Lifetime Techniques for Biomedical Applications (Laura Marcu, PhD. Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering. University of California at Davis) 2016-07-02 10:00: Techfugees Cambridge (Dr Arjuna Saithaseelan, Rachel Mantell, Evert Bopp, Hassan Akkad) 2016-07-04 12:00: Don't multiply lightly: exploring how DNN depth interacts with HMM independence assumptions in hybrid HMM/DNN's used for ASR (Steven Wegmann, Semantic Machines and International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)) 2016-07-05 14:30: "A non-stationary Bayesian model for across-site heterogeneity in molecular phylogenetics" (Dr Sarah Heaps, University of Newcastle) 2016-07-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL)) 2016-07-06 11:00: A Fast and Practical Software Packet Scheduling Architecture (Luigi Rizzo (Universita` di Pisa)) 2016-07-06 11:30: Data Dissemination: A Survey of Recent Approaches, Challenges, and Connections to Data Linkage (Jerry Reiter (Duke University)) 2016-07-06 14:30: The Challenge of Privacy Protection for Statistical Agencies (John Abowd (U.S. Census Bureau; Cornell University)) 2016-07-06 16:00: Recent developments and research challenges in data linkage (Peter Christen (Australian National University)) 2016-07-07 11:30: New Directions in Anonymization: Permutation Paradigm, Verifiability by Subjects and Intruders, Transparency to Users (Josep Domingo-Ferrer ()) 2016-07-07 13:30: Perspectives on user needs for academic, government and commercial data (Christopher Dibben (University of St Andrews); Natalie Shlomo (University of Manchester)) 2016-07-07 16:00: Modern Bayesian Record Linkage: Some Recent Developments and Open Challenges (Rebecca Steorts (Duke University)) 2016-07-07 19:00: Causal Inference Through Propensity Score Analysis (Dr Michael Posner, University of Cambridge and Villanova University.) 2016-07-08 10:00: Probabilistic anonymisation of microdatasets and models for analysis (Harvey Goldstein (University of Bristol; University College London)) 2016-07-08 11:30: Statistical Modelling using Linked Data - Issues and Opportunities (Ray Chambers (University of Wollongong)) 2016-07-08 13:30: Using Differential Privacy to Control False Discovery in Adaptive Data Analysis (Aaron Roth (University of Pennsylvania )) 2016-07-08 14:30: Probabilistic Record Linkage and Deduplication after Indexing, Blocking, and Filtering (Jared Murray (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2016-07-08 16:00: Decision making in hierarchical multi-label classification (HMC) problems (Haiyan Huang (UC Berkeley)) 2016-07-11 10:30: Statistical matching theory with a glimpse towards extremal regular graphs (Peter Csikvari (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Eötvös Loránd University)) 2016-07-11 13:45: Towards universality in bootstrap percolation (Paul Smith (University of Cambridge)) 2016-07-11 14:15: How habits become compulsions? Investigating habit perseveration in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. (Paula Banca, University of Cambridge) 2016-07-11 14:30: Subsampling, symmetry and averaging in networks (Peter Orbanz (Columbia University)) 2016-07-11 15:30: Sparse and modular networks using exchangeable random measures (Francois Caron (University of Oxford)) 2016-07-11 16:00: Exponential Family Embeddings (David Blei (Columbia University)) 2016-07-11 16:00: A potential mechanism for a singularity in the Euler Equations (Michael Brenner (Harvard)) 2016-07-12 09:00: A framework for imperfectly observed networks (David Aldous (University of California)) 2016-07-12 11:00: Spectral Sparsification of Graphs (Nikhil Srivastava (University of California, Berkeley)) 2016-07-12 11:00: Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian Inference (Prof. David Blei (Columbia University)) 2016-07-12 11:00: Unikernels and Beyond: the future of application containers in the cloud (Dan Williams (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY)) 2016-07-12 11:30: Partitioning Well-Clustered Graphs: Spectral Clustering Works! (He Sun (University of Bristol)) 2016-07-12 12:00: Thin spanning trees and their algorithmic applications (Amin Saberi (Stanford University)) 2016-07-12 13:30: From EDA to NDA: Treating Networks like Hardware Circuits (George Varghese - Microsoft Research) 2016-07-12 13:30: Inferring gene-gene associations and gene networks beyond standard statistical models (Haiyan Huang (University of California, Berkeley)) 2016-07-12 14:00: Understanding genetic interaction networks (Florian Markowetz (University of Cambridge)) 2016-07-12 14:00: Physical Internet: concept and performance (Shenle Pan (Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Industrial Engineering at MINES ParisTech)) 2016-07-12 15:30: Estimation of Causal Effects in Network-Dependent Observational Data (Oleg Sofrygin (University of California, Berkeley)) 2016-07-12 16:00: Statistical and causal inference in networks (Dean Eckles (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)) 2016-07-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alberto Bernacchia (CBL)) 2016-07-12 19:00: SciBar : Digital Medicine (Dr Eiko Yoneki and Dr Ali Dariush) 2016-07-13 09:00: On the graph limit approach to random regular graphs (Balazs Szegedy (University of Toronto)) 2016-07-13 14:15: Contact networks and the spread of epidemic disease (Mark Newman (University of Michigan)) 2016-07-13 15:15: Continuum limits for minimal paths (Alfred Hero (University of Michigan)) 2016-07-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-07-13 19:00: Distributed optical fibre sensors: an introduction to the technology and applications. (Arthur Hartog, Schlumberger Fibre-Optics Technology Centre) 2016-07-14 09:00: Spectral Clustering for Dynamic Stochastic Block Model (Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya (Oregon State University)) 2016-07-14 10:00: tba (Patrick Wolfe (University College London)) 2016-07-14 10:30: An introduction to program verification with F* (Santiago Zanella-Beguelin, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2016-07-14 11:00: Nonparametrics for networks (Sofia Olhede (University College London)) 2016-07-14 11:30: Estimating network edge probabilities by neighborhood smoothing (Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan)) 2016-07-14 13:30: Artificial neurons meet real neurons: pattern selectivity in V4 via deep learning (Bin Yu (University of California, Berkeley)) 2016-07-14 14:00: Modelling Large- and Small-Scale Brain Networks (Thomas Nichols (University of Warwick)) 2016-07-14 14:30: Natural neural networks: structure, dynamics and computation (Mitya Chklovskii (Simons Foundation; New York University)) 2016-07-14 15:30: The physics of spreading processes in multilayer networks (Alexandre Arenas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili )) 2016-07-14 16:30: Efficient Bayesian inference of multi-scale network structures (Tiago Peixoto (ISI Foundation; Universität Bremen )) 2016-07-14 17:00: Multilayer Networks and Applications (Mason Porter (University of Oxford)) 2016-07-15 09:00: Spatial preferential attachment networks (Peter Morters (University of Bath)) 2016-07-15 09:30: Ranking algorithms on directed configuration networks (Nelly Litvak (Universiteit Twente)) 2016-07-15 11:30: Properties of Latent Variable Network Models (Nial Friel (University College Dublin)) 2016-07-15 12:00: Information-theoretic bounds and phase transitions in community detection and high-dimensional clustering (Cristopher Moore (Santa Fe Institute)) 2016-07-15 13:30: Some optimality results in network analysis and beyond (Harrison Zhou (Yale University)) 2016-07-15 14:00: Network driven sampling; a critical threshold for design effects (Karl Rohe (University of Wisconsin-Madison)) 2016-07-15 14:30: Repeated Motif Hierarchical Stochastic Blockmodels (Carey Priebe (Johns Hopkins University)) 2016-07-15 15:30: Co-clustering of non-smooth graphons (David Choi (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2016-07-15 16:00: Convex Relaxation for Community Detection with Covariates (Purna Sarkar (University of Texas at Austin)) 2016-07-18 13:00: Attention filters for features (Professor George Sperling, University of California at Irvine) 2016-07-19 13:15: Approximate Computing (Philip Dexter) 2016-07-20 11:30: Mean Field Games and the Control of Large Scale Systems: An Overview (Peter E. 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(Raquel Ribeiro) 2016-07-21 11:00: Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series Methodology (Professor Mike West (Statistical Science, Duke University)) 2016-07-21 14:00: Verifying Constant-Time Implementations (Francois Dupressoir) 2016-07-21 16:00: Turbulent Taylor Couette Flow (Bruno Ekhardt (Universität Marburg) ) 2016-07-21 18:30: Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKED (Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden) 2016-07-21 18:30: Understanding Systems (Johanna Kollmann, Head of Product, Snyk) 2016-07-25 10:00: Bayesian Methods for Networks (Peter Hoff (University of Washington)) 2016-07-25 11:00: Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured Data (Prof Le Song (Georgia Tech)) 2016-07-25 11:30: Function estimation on large graphs with missing data (Alisa Kirichenko (Universiteit van Amsterdam)) 2016-07-25 12:00: Bayesian sequential design in matrix factorisation models (Sergio Bacallado (University of Cambridge)) 2016-07-25 13:30: Edge exchangeability: a new foundation for modeling network data (Harry Crane (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)) 2016-07-25 14:00: Exchangeable constructions of countable structures (Cameron Freer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)) 2016-07-25 15:30: Statistical Relational Learning: Review and Recent Advances (Lise Getoor (University of California, Santa Cruz)) 2016-07-25 16:00: Optimal Bayes estimators for block models (Nial Friel (University College Dublin)) 2016-07-26 09:00: Interlocking directorates in Irish companies using bipartite networks: a latent space approach (Adrian Raftery (University of Washington)) 2016-07-26 09:30: Goodness of fit of logistic models for random graphs (Pierre Latouche (Université Paris 1)) 2016-07-26 10:00: Network Models with Dynamic Vertex Sets (Simon Lunagomez (University College London)) 2016-07-26 11:30: Latent Space Stochastic Block Model for Social Networks (Brendan Murphy (University College Dublin)) 2016-07-26 12:00: A Bayesian nonparametric model for sparse dynamic networks (Konstantina Palla (University of Oxford)) 2016-07-26 13:30: Multiresolution network models (Tyler McCormick (University of Washington)) 2016-07-26 14:00: Bayesian Hierarchical Community Discovery (Yee Whye Teh (University of Oxford; The Alan Turing Institute)) 2016-07-26 14:30: From Graphon to Graphex: Models and Estimators for Sparse Networks using Exchangeable Random Measures (Daniel Roy (University of Toronto)) 2016-07-26 16:00: Simple Experiments in Fluids: from Biolocomotion to Geophysics (Jun Zhang (Courant Institute) ) 2016-07-27 09:30: Estimating the number of communities in a network (Gesine Reinert (University of Oxford)) 2016-07-27 10:00: Bayesian dynamic modelling of network flows (Mike West (Duke University)) 2016-07-27 11:30: Random walk models of networks: modeling and inferring complex dependence (Benjamin Bloem-Reddy (Columbia University)) 2016-07-27 12:00: Edge-exchangeable graphs, sparsity, and power laws (Diana Cai (University of Chicago)) 2016-07-27 14:00: Selection of the Regularization Parameter in Graphical Models using Network Characteristics (Natalia Bochkina (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-07-27 14:30: Inference in the infinite relational model (Mikkel Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark)) 2016-07-27 15:00: On asymptotic exchangeability and graph evolution (Sonia Petrone (Bocconi University)) 2016-07-28 15:00: Towards synchronized (and programmable) datacenters (Vishal Shrivastav (Cornell University)) 2016-07-29 11:00: Interpretable and interactive machine learning (Dr Been Kim) 2016-08-02 14:00: Barrier-Aware Warp Scheduling for Throughput Processors (Prof Yu Zhibin, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology) 2016-08-02 14:45: Design for Security Test against Fault Injection Attack, and Fast Test with Compressive Sensing (Prof Huiyun Li, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology) 2016-08-04 14:00: Fitting Hierarchical Models in Large-Scale Recommender Systems (Patrick Perry (New York University)) 2016-08-04 16:00: Reflections on Code-Reuse Attacks and Defenses (Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-University Bochum) 2016-08-08 11:00: Inference as Learning (George Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-08-09 13:15: Light at the middle of the tunnel: middleboxes for selective disclosure of network monitoring to distrusted parties (Nik Sultana) 2016-08-10 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-08-11 11:15: Body ownership and agency illusions in immersive virtual reality - a tool for change (Mel Slater, University of Barcelona) 2016-08-11 14:00: Capacity bounds and robustness in multipath networks (Richard Gibbens (University of Cambridge)) 2016-08-11 15:00: FlashBlade: Hardware and Software Co-design (Alex Ho (Pure Storage)) 2016-08-11 15:30: Talk 1: Advanced methods for linking complex historical birth, death, marriage and census data (Peter Christen (Australian National University)) 2016-08-11 16:00: Talk 2: Evaluation of advanced techniques for multi-party privacy-preserving record linkage on real-world health databases (Peter Christen (Australian National University)) 2016-08-12 15:00: Managing Privacy Tradeoffs in the Internet (David Naylor - CMU) 2016-08-17 11:00: Use of temporal information in radar classification (Elliot Lynch) 2016-08-17 11:00: Missing mutations in cancer analyses (Theresa Schüler) 2016-08-17 11:25: Rays and Bayes - the variational approach to phase retrieval (Roland Bittleston) 2016-08-17 11:25: Probabilistic model for cancer immunoediting (Arnas Gercas) 2016-08-17 11:50: Application of Monte Carlo estimators for the fast, efficient calculation of complex option Greeks in the presence of stochastic volatility (Joe Wallace) 2016-08-17 11:50: Analysing gibberellin expression dynamics with the GPS1 biosensor (Benjamin DeMeo) 2016-08-17 12:15: Interactive theorem proving with Isabelle: computer assisted reasoning (Alexander Hicks) 2016-08-17 12:15: Compressed sensing sampling and processing techniques in NMR (Rob Tovey) 2016-08-17 12:40: Interactive theorem proving with Isabelle: aiming for the boundaries (José Siqueira) 2016-08-17 14:00: The aerogel formation of carbon nanotubes (Maxence Ernoult) 2016-08-17 14:00: Modelling the capability of military hospitals (Ed Smith) 2016-08-17 14:25: Microscopic theory of dielectric and mechanical response of disordered materials (Bingyu Cui) 2016-08-17 14:25: Measurement and analysis of epithelial stem cell dynamics (George Lee) 2016-08-17 14:50: Entropy in aerosol agglomeration (Alice Giroul) 2016-08-17 14:50: DNA shape of G-boxes (Sam Shepherd) 2016-08-17 15:15: Modelling customer behaviour using machine learning techniques (Alexander Fisch, Tim King, Daniel Ng) 2016-08-17 15:15: Stochastic models of gene regulatory networks (John Ng) 2016-08-17 15:40: Interpolation of point spread functions using anisotropic diffusion equations (Wuhyun Sohn) 2016-08-17 15:40: Subgroup identification in clinical trials (Tristan Giron) 2016-08-17 16:00: Rothschild Lecture: From Small Data to Big Data and Back: Statistics and Data Science (Peter Bickel (University of California, Berkeley)) 2016-08-17 16:30: Testing dependence by correlation of distances (Yanitsa Pehova) 2016-08-17 16:30: Crowding out in a two sector model of science (Sebastian Damrich) 2016-08-17 16:55: Seeking gold in sand: applying random matrix theory to separation of signal from noise (Mike Wang) 2016-08-17 16:55: Modelling electric motors (Will Boulton) 2016-08-18 14:00: Epidemics on networks (Frank Granville Ball (University of Nottingham)) 2016-08-19 10:30: Characterising the future of intelligence through measurement (Prof. Jose Hernandez-Orallo, Technical University of Valencia) 2016-08-19 12:00: Very deep convolutional neural networks for speech recognition (Tom Sercu, IBM Watson, USA) 2016-08-22 13:30: Emerging epidemics on networks (Pieter Trapman (Stockholm University)) 2016-08-22 16:00: A Bayesian ordination method for 16S microbiome profiling data (Dr Sergio Bacallado) 2016-08-23 10:00: Interpretable Models for Prediction on Networks with Cohesion (Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan)) 2016-08-23 11:30: The Role of Modern Social Media Data in Surveillance and Prediction of Infectious Diseases: from Time Series to Networks (Yulia Gel (University of Texas at Dallas; University of Waterloo)) 2016-08-23 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (CBL)) 2016-08-24 11:30: Network inference in genomics (Ernst C. Wit (University of Groningen)) 2016-08-25 10:00: Estimating whole brain dynamics using spectral clustering (Yi Yu (University of Cambridge; University of Bristol)) 2016-08-25 10:30: Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis (Andrey Rybalchenko, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2016-08-25 10:40: Detecting Epistatic Selection in the Genome of RILs via a latent Gaussian Copula Graphical Model (Pariya Behrouzi (University of Groningen)) 2016-08-25 12:10: Modelling community structure in the Italian Parliament: a penalized inference approach (Mirko Signorelli (Università degli Studi di Padova ; Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)) 2016-08-25 14:10: Bayesian modeling of networks in complex business intelligence problems (Daniele Durante (Università degli Studi di Padova )) 2016-08-25 14:50: Implementing Propensity Score Matching with Network Data: The effect of GATT on bilateral trade (Luca De Benedictis (Università di Macerata)) 2016-08-25 16:20: Analysis of Networks with Missing Data with Application to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Katherine McLaughlin (Oregon State University)) 2016-08-26 09:00: The Networked Partial Correlation and its Application to the Analysis of Genetic Interactions (Alberto Roverato (Università di Bologna)) 2016-08-26 09:40: Bayesian modelling of Dupuytren disease using Gaussian copula graphical models (Reza Mohammadi (Universiteit van Tilburg; University of Groningen)) 2016-08-26 10:20: Applying network science to political problems. A conceptual and analytical framework for understanding and predicting corruption risks in business-political networks (Silvia Ioana Fierascu (Central European University)) 2016-08-26 14:10: On-line estimation of an optimal treatment allocation strategy for the control of white-nose syndrome in ba (Eric Laber (North Carolina State University)) 2016-08-26 14:50: What COSTNET can do for and with you! (Steffen Lauritzen (University of Copenhagen; University of Oxford; Aalborg Universitet)) 2016-08-30 09:50: Estimates of life expectancy for compensation after injury (Jane Hutton (University of Warwick)) 2016-08-30 10:30: The Changing Face of Forensic Science (Angela Gallop (Axiom International Ltd)) 2016-08-30 11:30: The problem of false positives, some lessons from the bullet lead story, and the new U.S. Department of Justice guidance for expert testimony (Michael Finkelstein (Columbia University)) 2016-08-30 12:00: Casework problems with the Likelihood Ratio (Allan Jamieson (Scottish Government)) 2016-08-30 14:00: tba (Cheryl Thomas (University College London)) 2016-08-30 14:30: The nature of questions arising in court that can be addressed via probability and logic (Bernard Robertson (LexisNexis)) 2016-08-30 15:00: Statistical Measures and Methods Used to Analyze the Representativeness of Jury Pools (Joseph Gastwirth (George Washington University )) 2016-09-01 10:30: All Talk and No Conversation? Methodological Preconditions of An Interdisciplinary Forensic Science (Paul Roberts (University of Nottingham)) 2016-09-01 11:30: How should we interpret Y-chromosome evidence? (Bruce Weir (University of Washington)) 2016-09-01 14:00: Microbial Community Networks in the Human Microbiome (Susan Holmes (Stanford University)) 2016-09-01 19:00: Structured Queries For Unstructured Data. David Milward, CTO Linguamatics. (David Milward, Linguamatics.) 2016-09-02 09:30: Forensic databases: size, completeness, usefulness (Alicia Carriquiry (Iowa State University )) 2016-09-02 10:30: Novel Facts (Anne Ruth mackor (University of Groningen)) 2016-09-02 11:00: "Womenomics" and Gender-Inclusive Software: What the Software Industry Needs to Know (Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University) 2016-09-02 11:00: Data Driven Discrete Time Modeling of Continuous Time Nonlinear Systems: Problems, Challenges, Success Stories (Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 2016-09-02 14:00: Relevant populations and data (Colin Aitken (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-09-02 15:30: Communicating likelihood ratios (David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge)) 2016-09-05 16:00: Optimization-based flow analysis (Peter Schmid (Imperial College)) 2016-09-06 11:00: The Rise of Data Religion (Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew University)) 2016-09-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Matthew Kerr (CBL)) 2016-09-07 14:30: Surface properties in additive manufacturing (Dr Tatiana Hentrich, Fraunhofer) 2016-09-07 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation 2016 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-09-08 11:00: Learning with Memory Embeddings (Professor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)) 2016-09-08 15:00: Would you use 20V 2.25A or 15V 3A to charge your Chromebook and once charged how would you run Android Apps? (Mark Hayter (Google)) 2016-09-08 15:30: A note on the F-measure for evaluating record linkage algorithms (and classification methods and information retrieval systems) (David Hand (Imperial College London); Peter Christen (Australian National University)) 2016-09-09 14:00: Mechano-responsive nano-textured hydrogels (Alex Yarin (UIC)) 2016-09-09 14:00: Mechano-responsive nano-textured hydrogels (Alex Yarin (UIC)) 2016-09-09 14:30: "Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits" (Dr Nanhua Zhang, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center) 2016-09-09 15:30: Nonparametric Bayesian Word Discovery by Robots: Introduction to Symbol Emergence in Robotics ( Dr. Tadahiro Taniguchi, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University. ) 2016-09-09 16:00: Safety compliant assistive exoskeletons for AAL applications (Professor Gurvinder Singh Virk, Professor of Robotics, University of Gävle and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SWEDEN) 2016-09-12 10:00: Hardening Bloom Filter PPRL by modifying identifier encodings (Rainer Schnell (City University, London; Universität Duisburg-Essen)) 2016-09-12 11:00: Dynamic Models for Health Data (Professor Katherine A Heller (Duke University)) 2016-09-12 11:30: Historical life cycle reconstruction by indexing (Gerrit Bloothooft (Universiteit Utrecht)) 2016-09-12 12:00: Deduplicating databases of deaths in war: advances in adaptive blocking, pairwise classification, and clustering (Patrick Ball (Human Rights Data Analysis Group)) 2016-09-12 13:30: Computational Methods for Linking Sets of National Files (Bill Winkler (U.S. Census Bureau)) 2016-09-13 09:30: Privacy Preserving Interactive Record Linkage (PPIRL) (Hye-Chung Kum (Texas A&M University ; UNC Chapel Hill and RIMS)) 2016-09-13 10:00: Technical Challenges associated with record linkage (James Boyd ()) 2016-09-13 10:30: Record linkage with complete-count historical census data (Evan Roberts (University of Minnesota)) 2016-09-13 11:00: Multiresolution Matrix Factorization (Prof Risi Kondor (U Chicago)) 2016-09-13 11:30: A LifeCycle Model for Privacy Preserving Record Linkage (Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University)) 2016-09-13 12:00: Tracking people over time in 19th century Canada: Challenges, Bias and Results (Luiza Antonie (University of Guelph)) 2016-09-13 13:30: Handling identifier error rate variation in data linkage of large administrative data sources (Katie Harron (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)) 2016-09-13 14:00: GUILD: GUidance for Information about Linked Datasets (Ruth Gilbert (University College London)) 2016-09-13 14:30: Title TBC (Professor Rebecca Steorts, Duke University) 2016-09-13 14:30: Advanced Techniques for Privacy-Preserving Linking of Multiple Large Databases (Dinusha Vatsalan (Australian National University)) 2016-09-13 15:00: A scaling approach to record linkage (Harvey Goldstein (University of Bristol; University College London)) 2016-09-13 19:00: From Pixels to Cats and Dogs: Vision in Humans and Computers (Katherine Storrs) 2016-09-13 19:30: Humanising AI (Araceli Camargo) 2016-09-14 09:00: Big data integration: challenges and new approaches (Erhard Rahm (Universität Leipzig )) 2016-09-14 09:00: Imaging Technologies for the Developing Brain (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-09-14 10:00: Space Embedding of Records for Privacy Preserving Linkage (Vassilios Verykios (Hellenic Open University)) 2016-09-14 11:30: A Bayesian Partitioning Approach to Duplicate Detection and Record Linkage (Mauricio Sadinle (Duke University)) 2016-09-14 12:00: From Private Set Intersection to Private Record Linkage (Changyu Dong (University of Strathclyde)) 2016-09-16 11:00: Queueing with Redundant Requests: A more realistic model (Mor Harchol-Balter - CMU) 2016-09-16 11:00: What is code? (Felienne Hermans, T. U. Delft) 2016-09-16 12:50: Data Linkage Techniques and Challenges in Public Health Records (Helen Strongman (Clinical Practice Research Datalink Centre of the MHRA); Oliver Smith (NHS Digital)) 2016-09-16 14:15: European Genome Phenome Archive (Helen Parkinson (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge)) 2016-09-16 14:45: Public Acceptability of Data Science: Context and Consequences (Daniel Cameron (IPSOS MORI)) 2016-09-16 15:15: Data Linkage Challenges in Retail Banking (Sean Charlton (Barclays Bank plc)) 2016-09-16 16:00: Inverse Scale Space Decomposition (Marie Foged Schmidt, Denmark Technical University (DTU)) 2016-09-19 10:00: Digital Echoes: Understanding Patterns of Mass Violence with Data and Statistics (Patrick Ball, Director of Research, Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)) 2016-09-19 15:00: Algorithms and bounds for group testing (Dr Oliver Johnson, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol) 2016-09-19 16:00: Non-coding genome function in pancreatic islets and diabetes (Professor Jorge Ferrer) 2016-09-20 14:00: An Evaluation of four global reanalysis products using in-situ observations in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica (Richard Jones, University of East Anglia) 2016-09-20 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (James Heald (CBL)) 2016-09-21 09:30: An introduction to Forensic Voice Comparison (Geoffrey Stewart Morrison (University of Alberta)) 2016-09-21 11:00: Computational Imaging in Atomic Force Microscopy (Thomas Arildsen, Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University, Denmark) 2016-09-22 14:00: Reliability modeling and maintenance policy for multi-component systems (Bin Liu from City University of Hong Kong ) 2016-09-22 15:00: The role of chance in organisational variation in stage at diagnosis (Matthew Barclay (University of Cambridge)) 2016-09-22 15:00: Leveraging RDMA to Build a Real-Time Cloud for the Internet of Things (Ken Birman (Cornell University)) 2016-09-26 11:30: On how expert witnesses can give useful Bayesian analyses of complex criminal cases (Henry Prakken (Universiteit Utrecht; University of Groningen)) 2016-09-26 13:30: Paternity testing and other inference about relationships from DNA mixtures (Julia Mortera (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)) 2016-09-26 14:15: Bayes Nets for the evaluation of testimony (Paolo Garbolino (IUAV University of Venice)) 2016-09-26 15:00: Multi-band Image Super-resolution (Dr Qi Wei, CUED) 2016-09-26 16:15: A Bayesian network for glass evidence evaluation at activity level: a novel approach to model the background distribution (Peter Vergeer (Netherlands Forensic Institute)) 2016-09-27 12:30: Weapons of Math Destruction (Dr Cathy O'Neil) 2016-09-27 14:15: Causality and Responsibility in Formal Verification and Beyond (Hana Chockler (King's College London)) 2016-09-27 15:30: Using Bayesian Networks to Quantify Digital Forensic Evidence and Hypotheses (Richard Overill (King's College London)) 2016-09-27 16:15: The Anti-Inference Bias and Circumstantial Evidence (Eyal Zamir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2016-09-28 13:30: Generating Bayesian networks in Forensic Science An example from crime linkage (Jacob de Zoete (Universiteit van Amsterdam)) 2016-09-28 15:30: Shaken Baby Syndrome on Trial: Causal Problems and Sources of Bias (Maria Cuellar (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2016-09-29 09:30: A Graphical Model Approach to Eyewitness Identification Data (Amanda Luby (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2016-09-29 11:30: Causal networks in evidential reasoning (David Lagnado (University College London)) 2016-09-29 15:00: LEO: Scheduling Sensor Inference Algorithms across Heterogeneous Mobile Processors and Network Resources (Petko Georgiev (Computer Lab)) 2016-09-29 15:30: Sanitization for sequential data (Grigorios Loukides (King's College London)) 2016-09-29 16:00: A system of cooperative security for the Internet and 5G (Raimo Kantola (Aalto University, Finland)) 2016-09-29 16:15: Using Bayesian Networks to Analyze What Experts Need to Know (and When they Know Too Much) (William Thompson (University of California, Irvine)) 2016-10-03 16:00: The Long-legged mouse and the Impossible Hybrid – the genetics of genome evolution in the mouse from stem cells to whole organisms (Dr Yingguang Frank Chan) 2016-10-03 18:00: LECTURE AND HACKATHON: SPEAKER BALAJI SRINIVASAN, 21.co | HOW BITCOIN ENABLES A MACHINE-PAYABLE WEB (Balaji Srinivasan, CEO 21.co) 2016-10-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Hannah Sheahan (CBL)) 2016-10-05 18:30: The importance of Bioinformatics in studying a wide range of diseases (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-10-06 11:00: Exploratory Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-10-06 11:00: Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCA (Professor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS)) 2016-10-06 11:00: Multiword Expressions and Compositionality Detection: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time (Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul)) 2016-10-06 14:00: Neural mechanisms of behavioral switches (Dr. Arantza Barrios, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London ) 2016-10-06 14:00: Limit theorems for eigenvectors of the normalized Laplacian for random graphs (Carey Priebe (Johns Hopkins University)) 2016-10-06 15:00: I(FIB)F: Iterated Bloom Filters for Routing in Named Data Networks (Cristina Munoz Illescas (University of Geneva)) 2016-10-06 16:00: The causes and consequences of cellular circadian rhythms (Dr John O'Neill, University of Cambridge) 2016-10-06 18:30: Whipple Museum of the History of Science - Private tour - FULLY BOOKED (Museum staff) 2016-10-06 19:00: Human Curiosities of the Freak Show Era (Bob Whittaker) 2016-10-07 11:15: A Changing Landscape: Securing The Internet of Things (IoT) (Sanjay K. Jha (University of New South Wales, Sydney)) 2016-10-07 14:00: Failure mechanism in thermal barrier coatings (Dr Philpp Seiler, CUED) 2016-10-07 14:00: Information and Entropy Flow in Stochastic Control (Professor Sanjoy Mitter, MIT) 2016-10-07 14:30: Surface properties in additive manufacturing (Dr Tatiana Hentrich, Fraunhofer) 2016-10-07 16:00: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Convergence Rates for Least-Squares Regression (Francis Bach (INRIA)) 2016-10-07 16:00: Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor instability (Matthew Scase (University of Nottingham)) 2016-10-07 19:00: High Dimensions (Prof. Imre Leader, DPMMS) 2016-10-10 13:00: IoT Observatory: technological, legal and ethical challenges (Thanassis Tiropanis - Southampton University) 2016-10-10 13:05: Security Through Maturity (Scott Alexander, JPMorgan mobile team) 2016-10-10 16:30: "How to sample a reliable neural estimate of the variable world" (Mikko Juusola, Professor of Systems Neuroscience, University of Sheffield) 2016-10-10 18:00: Packing dominoes and other shapes (Professor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics) 2016-10-10 19:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Chris Lowe, University of Essex) 2016-10-10 19:30: Securing computers from highly skilled attackers (Matthew Garrett) 2016-10-11 14:00: Semantics derived automatically from language corpora necessarily contain human biases (Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University) 2016-10-11 16:30: Local time at zero metric associated to a GFF on a cable graph. (Titus Lupu (ETH Zurich)) 2016-10-11 17:45: What’s new (and what isn’t) in improving quality and safety in healthcare (Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, RAND Professor of Health Services Research, University of Cambridge) 2016-10-12 13:05: An introduction to games programming (Alastair Toft and Hale Harding, Studio Gobo) 2016-10-12 14:00: Using evolutionary sequence variation to build predictive models of protein structure and function. (Lucy Colwell (University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-12 16:00: Syntax in C. elegans locomotion (Dr Andre Brown, Group leader, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London ) 2016-10-12 16:00: Mathematical modelling of the immune response to influenza (Ada Yan, University of Melbourne) 2016-10-12 16:15: Rethinking Auto-Parallelisation (Prof Michael O'Boyle - School of Informatics, Edinburgh) 2016-10-12 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-10-12 19:00: PAC learning (Peter Rugg, Churchill College) 2016-10-12 19:40: Lock-free programming (Pan Song, Churchill College) 2016-10-13 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-10-13 11:30: Component sizes in random graphs with given vertex degrees (the configuration model) (Svante Janson (Uppsala Universitet)) 2016-10-13 14:15: Introduction to the Rainbow Group (Peter Robinson (University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-13 15:00: Firmament: fast, centralized cluster scheduling at scale (Ionel Gog (Computer Lab)) 2016-10-13 16:00: Computing In Schools: How Your Skills Can Change Lives (Philip Golden) 2016-10-13 16:00: Learning flights in bumblebees (Dr Natalie Hempel de Ibarra, Exeter University) 2016-10-14 10:00: Bloomberg's On-Campus! Terminal Showcase & Cup Cake Challenge! (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-10-14 12:00: Internal Seminar pt. 1 (NLIP Postdocs and PhDs) 2016-10-14 14:00: Cohesive zone modelling of the dynamic behaviour of two shipbuilding adhesives (Kevin Maloney, CUED) 2016-10-14 14:30: Biomimetic inspired joining of composite and metal structures (Evangelos Avgoulas, CUED) 2016-10-14 16:00: Community Detection on the Weighted Stochastic Block Model (Min Xu (U Penn)) 2016-10-14 16:00: Internal waves and stratified turbulence in the nearshore coastal ocean (Stephen Monismith (Stanford University)) 2016-10-14 16:00: Resistive memory devices and their role in future computing systems (Abu Sebastian, IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland) 2016-10-14 19:00: PhD event (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-10-17 13:05: 5G - The Revolution (Cyril Valadon , MediaTek) 2016-10-17 14:00: Surveillance and Employment Relations in a Data-Saturated Society (David Renton (Barrister, Garden Court Chambers)) 2016-10-17 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: On the Management of Population Immunity (Dr Flavio Toxvaerd, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) 2016-10-17 19:30: OK Computer - teaching machines to write music (Ed Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO at Jukedeck) 2016-10-18 13:00: Data processing @ Google & Interviews 101 (Lewis Hemens, Google) 2016-10-18 14:00: Towards a complete view of the genetics of gene expression variation in yeast (Professor Frank Albert, University of Minnesota ) 2016-10-18 14:00: The Million-Key Question : Investigating the Origins of RSA Public Keys (Best Paper Award @ USENIX Security 2016) (Petr Svenda, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) 2016-10-18 14:15: 'Exposure Track' -The Impact of Mobile Device Based Mobility Patterns on Quantifying Population Exposure to Air Pollution (Dr Marguerite Nyhan, Havard University) 2016-10-18 14:30: "The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations" (Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford) 2016-10-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL)) 2016-10-19 10:55: Semanic Segmentation with Deep Neural Network - Contextual Information Retrieval (John Aston (University of Cambridge); Yu Wang (University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-19 11:00: Dimension Reduction and Aero-Engine Fan Design (Pranay Seshadri, Cambridge EDC) 2016-10-19 11:00: Unik: A platform for automating unikernel compilation and deployment (Idit Levine (EMC)) 2016-10-19 13:00: Belief and statistical evidence (Arif Ahmed (Faculty of Philosophy)) 2016-10-19 13:05: Netcraft wokshop (Robert Duncan, Netcraft) 2016-10-19 13:15: Exploiting spatial features in the analysis of ChIP- and BS-Seq data ( Guido Sanguinetti - School of Informatics & SynthSys, Edinburgh) 2016-10-19 14:00: Transcriptional and phenotypic variability in response to temperature in plants (Dr Sandra Cortijo) 2016-10-19 14:00: The Role of Medical Imaging Biomarkers in Drug Development (Josh Kaggie (GlaxoSmithKline)) 2016-10-19 14:20: Delivering on the Promise of Deep Learning (Vilen Jumutcs (Intel); Robert Sugar (Intel)) 2016-10-19 15:00: InsightMedi and its Quest to Analyse the Largest Database of Medical Images: Challenges, Benefits and Collaborations (Juan González (InsightMedi)) 2016-10-19 16:00: Evolution, genomics and mode of action of long noncoding RNAs in mammalian cells (Dr. Igor Ulitsky) 2016-10-19 19:00: Localisation for Robotics (Emma Smith, Newnham College) 2016-10-19 19:40: Sublinear time property testers (Louis-Pascal Xhonneux, Churchill College) 2016-10-20 10:00: Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors (Manon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University) 2016-10-20 11:00: Building and using the Finnish Internet Parsebank (Filip Ginter (University of Turku)) 2016-10-20 14:00: Directing and shaping the inside-out axis of the vertebrate brain (Professor Jon Clarke, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London ) 2016-10-20 14:00: How topological features of supply network affect disruption absorption and recovery? An agent-based approach. (Anna Ledwoch (Cranfield University)) 2016-10-20 14:00: The role of invariance in learning from random graphs and structured data (Peter Orbanz (Columbia University)) 2016-10-20 14:15: Towards a User-Centric In-Vehicle Navigational System (Marwa Mahmoud (University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-20 15:00: Tracking intentionality using behavioural models and Bayesian methods. (Prof. Simon Godsill, CUED) 2016-10-20 15:30: Evaluating Data Linkage: Creating longitudinal synthetic data to provide a gold-standard linked dataset (Tom Dalton (University of St Andrews)) 2016-10-20 16:15: On Intuition: Machine Learning and Posthuman Ethics (Professor Louise Amoore, Department of Geography, Durham University) 2016-10-20 19:00: Sciencing the Sh*t out of Ape Conservation (Dr Peter Walsh) 2016-10-21 12:00: Numerically Grounded Language Models (George Spithourakis (UCL)) 2016-10-21 13:15: What's the big deal about Big Data? (Morgan Stanley’s Data Strategy group) 2016-10-21 13:15: “Shaping Cells and Tissues: from Embryonic Development to Synthetic Biology” (Stefano de Renzis, EMBL, Heidelberg) 2016-10-21 14:00: Contacts and Fretting - Mechanics Colloquium (Prof David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) 2016-10-21 14:00: Contacts and Fretting (Prof David Hills, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) 2016-10-21 16:00: “Lab on chip” – microfluidics, organ on chip and biomimetic channel networks (Prof. Andreas Manz. Head of Research Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Universität des Saarlandes. Saarbruecken, Germany) 2016-10-21 16:00: Buoyancy flux, upwelling, and closure of ocean meridional overturning circulation (Ali Mashayek (MIT)) 2016-10-21 16:00: 2d Materials: Opto-Electronics, Straintronics, Memory and New Concepts (Prof Deji Akinwande, (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)) 2016-10-24 13:05: Scala: How to sneak Haskell design patterns into industry code (Will Sonnex, GSA Capital) 2016-10-24 15:30: Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines (Marco Baroni (University of Trento/Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research)) 2016-10-24 16:30: "Sound encoding in the cochlea: from molecular physiology to optogenetic restoration" (Tobias Moser, Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, University Medical Center Gottingen, Germany) 2016-10-24 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture (Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy) 2016-10-24 18:00: Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture (Prof. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) 2016-10-25 08:30: Cambridge Rare Disease Network International Summit (Dr Yann Le Cam, Chief Executive Officer of Eurordis Ben Howlett MP, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on rare, genetic and un-diagnosed conditions Prof Patrick Maxwell, Regius Professor of Physic and Head of the School of Clinical Medicine of ) 2016-10-25 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Daniel Bernhardt, Facebook) 2016-10-25 14:00: Perceiving and Remembering Objects and Faces (Viljami Salmela, Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki) 2016-10-25 17:45: 'The Humanities and the Machine' (Professor Steven Connor (Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-25 19:00: The Impact of Infection on Human Genetic and Cultural Evolution (Prof Sir Peter Lachmann) 2016-10-26 11:00: Information Searches by Chinese Vehicle Engineers in Design Development (Shuai Zhang, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre) 2016-10-26 13:15: Moving pictures: Mathematical reconstruction of painting (Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Dr Stella Panayotova, Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books and Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute) 2016-10-26 16:15: End-to-end encryption: Behind the scenes (D Vasile, M Kleppmann & D Thomas - University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory) 2016-10-26 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-10-26 19:40: A comparison of three modern filesystems (Sizhe Sun, Sidney Sussex College) 2016-10-27 11:00: User-generated content mining: From collective disease rates to individual demographics (Vasileios Lampos (UCL)) 2016-10-27 14:00: Using experimental evolution to understand adaptation from standing genetic variation. (Professor Christian Schlotterer, Institute of Population Genetics of Vetmeduni Vienna ) 2016-10-27 14:00: Value-based asset management decisions: analyses of empirical data for prioritization of investments in electricity networks (Professor Joe Amadi-Echendu (University of Pretoria)) 2016-10-27 14:15: Personality Perception of Robot Avatar Teleoperators (Oya Celiktutan (University of Cambridge)) 2016-10-27 15:00: Sparse recovery by l0 penalty (Bangti Jin (UCL)) 2016-10-27 15:00: Linking national datasets at patient level: Triangulating cancer treatment data sources for the most commonly diagnosed adult brain tumour (Sarah Miller) 2016-10-27 16:00: Neural representation of complex space (Professor Kate Jeffery, UCL) 2016-10-28 10:00: How does Government surveillance affect perceived online privacy/security and online information disclosure? (Laura Brandimarte (University of Arizona)) 2016-10-28 11:30: Revisiting the Economics of Privacy: Population Statistics and Confidentiality Protection as Public Goods (Ian Schumutte (University of Georgia )) 2016-10-28 13:05: What can you do with data at the speed of 10x million events per second (Irina Frumkin, a Principal Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft) 2016-10-28 13:15: "Patterns and logic of actomyosin planar polarisation during Drosophila axis extension" (Benedicte Sanson, PDN department, Cambridge) 2016-10-28 13:30: The Economics of Privacy (remote presentation) (Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon University)) 2016-10-28 14:00: Localized loading of compliant composite laminate (Dr Mark O'Masta, CUED) 2016-10-28 14:30: Buying Private Data without Verification (Katrina Ligett (Hebrew University of Jerusalem; CALTECH (California Institute of Technology))) 2016-10-28 16:00: Flow-structure interaction at the micro-scale (Megan Davies Wykes (DAMTP)) 2016-10-28 16:00: The Strange Case of Privacy in Equilibrium Models (Mallesh Pai (Rice University; University of Pennsylvania )) 2016-10-28 16:00: AXIOM Beyond Encryption (Irwin Olian, ACME Cold Storage Inc.) 2016-10-28 19:00: Summer Internships Event (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-10-31 12:00: Investigating the interdependencies between DNN architectures and optimisation methods for Large Vocabulary Speech Continuous Speech Recognition (Adnan Haider, University of Cambridge) 2016-10-31 13:00: Generating realistic personal data for data linkage research (Peter Christen (Australian National University)) 2016-10-31 13:05: Trading Programs - How the Finance industry has become so complex that today's products are similar to programs (Joel Bjornson, Bloomberg) 2016-10-31 13:50: GA Approaches to Synthetic data (Mark Elliot (University of Manchester)) 2016-10-31 14:00: Managed by an Algorithm? The rise of “on-demand working” and the “gig economy” (Dr Ala'a Shehabi (The Work Foundation)) 2016-10-31 14:00: Developing PDE-compartment hybrid frameworks for modelling cell migration (Kit Yate, University of Bath) 2016-10-31 14:00: Developing PDE-compartment hybrid frameworks for modelling cell migration (Kit Yate, University of Bath) 2016-10-31 14:00: Analysis methods and utility measures (Gillian Raab (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-10-31 14:20: Challenges in generating and communicating synthetic data (Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-10-31 14:40: Beond Microdata: Synthetic tweets (Joshua Snoke (Pennsylvania State University)) 2016-10-31 15:00: My View on the Key Research Questions for Synthetic Data (Joerg Drechsler (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung)) 2016-10-31 16:00: Methods and math in cognitive neuroscience (Olaf Hauk ( MRC-CBU)) 2016-10-31 19:30: What shapes the human immune system? (Dr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-01 13:00: Can we use PTP to detect network congestion/measure network latency? (Diana Popescu) 2016-11-01 13:15: State machine replication and the modern exchange (Sebastian Funk, JaneStreet) 2016-11-01 15:00: Optical Flow on Evolving Sphere-Like Surfaces (Lukas Lang (University of Vienna)) 2016-11-01 17:45: ENS talk series - "Disclosure Risk in Sample Microdata" (Prof Natalie Shlomo, University of Manchester) 2016-11-01 19:00: Symposium: Neurobiology (Prof Ole Paulsen) 2016-11-01 19:30: On the road to traction - lessons learned in the startup world (Dan Greenfield) 2016-11-02 11:00: Unsupervised Cluster Matching for Relational Data (Tomoharu Iwata, NTT Communication Science Laboratories) 2016-11-02 11:00: Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstration (Dushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute) 2016-11-02 13:05: G-Research Coding Challenge 2016 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-02 14:00: Genome architecture and chromatin regulation in C. elegans (Professor Julie Ahringer, The Gurdon Institute) 2016-11-02 19:00: Text Data Mining using Topic Modeling (Ioana Bica, Churchill College) 2016-11-02 19:30: Introduction to Blockchain (Junwei Yuan, Churchill College) 2016-11-02 20:00: Image Segmentation: Breaking it down (Matthew Arnold, Sidney Sussex College) 2016-11-03 11:00: Categorical Data Analysis (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-11-03 11:00: Biomedical Text Mining: Structuring the Unstructured (David Milward (Linguamatics)) 2016-11-03 11:00: German Mathematicians and Cryptology during WWII (Sandy Zabell (Northwestern University)) 2016-11-03 11:00: Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable Models (Tomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan) 2016-11-03 13:30: A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement Learning (Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah) 2016-11-03 14:00: Defining transcription units across the human genome. (Professor Nick Proudfoot, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford ) 2016-11-03 14:00: Semidefinite approximations of matrix logarithm (Hamza Fawzi, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-03 14:15: Title to be confirmed (Nanyang Ye) 2016-11-03 15:00: Open Connect Everywhere: A Glimpse at the Internet Ecosystem through the Lens of the Netflix CDN (Timm Böttger (QMUL)) 2016-11-03 15:30: Measures of Utility for Synthetic Data (Gillian Raab (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-11-04 13:15: "Shaping cell contacts during tissue morphogenesis" (Pierre-Francois Lenne, IBDM, CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université, France) 2016-11-04 13:15: Pen and Paper Programming: How to write code in an interview (The team from Morgan Stanley) 2016-11-04 14:00: Computational modelling of fracture phenomena (Dr Arun Raina, CUED) 2016-11-04 16:00: Vesicle bionanotechnology and biophysics: from hybrid lipid-copolymer systems to anticancer peptides (Prof. Paul Beales. School of Chemistry, University of Leeds,) 2016-11-04 16:00: Quantum simulator with a fluid of light (Natalia Berloff (DAMTP)) 2016-11-04 20:00: ATP-sensitive K channels and Neonatal Diabetes - from Molecule to New Therapy and Beyond (Prof Dame Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford) 2016-11-05 12:00: Science Makers: drones for science (Tom Swinfield - Conservation Scientist at RSPB, Nigel Butcher - Technical Development Officer at RSPB, David Coomes - Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge ) 2016-11-07 11:00: A talk in two parts: (1) AI Neuroscience: How much do deep neural networks understand about the images they classify? (2) Robots that can adapt like animals. (Prof. Jeff Clune (U Wyoming)) 2016-11-07 14:00: Risk Literacy: How to Make Sense of Statistical Evidence (Gerd Gigerenzer (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung)) 2016-11-07 14:00: Looking beyond luminal stenosis: Atherosclerosis Imaging and Biomechanical Analysis (Dr Zhongzhao Teng (Cambridge Neuroscience)) 2016-11-07 16:15: Measuring Performance of Likelihood-Ratio-Based Evidence Evaluation Methods (Daniel Ramos (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)) 2016-11-07 18:00: Molecular medicines for the lysosome (Professor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus) 2016-11-07 20:30: Percolation and Random Walks (Dr. Perla Sousi (Statslab)) 2016-11-08 09:30: Interpreting (chemical) forensic evidence in a Bayesian framework: a multidisciplinary task (Gabriel Vivó-Truyols (Universiteit van Amsterdam)) 2016-11-08 11:30: Inverting Entomological Growth Curves Using Functional Data Analysis (John Aston (University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-08 12:15: Modelling the best evidence (Sue Pope ()) 2016-11-08 13:00: Digital Environmental Politics and the New Geographies of Anonymous Online Power (Brett Matulis) 2016-11-08 13:15: Amazon Alexa: building AI at scale (David Hardcastle, Senior Manager, Software Development, Amazon) 2016-11-08 14:30: "Breaking non-identifiability using genetic information : an application to metabolite data and gene expression" (Benjamin Frot, University of Oxford) 2016-11-08 15:00: Tendermint: Byzantine Fault Tolerance in the age of Blockchains (Ethan Buchman (Tendermint)) 2016-11-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL)) 2016-11-08 17:45: ENS talk series - "Some highlights of a career in Stochastic Modelling" (Prof Valerie Isham, UCL) 2016-11-08 18:30: LOCATION INTELLIGENCE AND SYSTEMS (Dr Paul Webster, Ubisense Ltd.) 2016-11-08 19:30: An Overview of Blockchain Security (Nicolas Courtois (University College London)) 2016-11-08 20:15: Do we actually know what a computer can do? - On the foundations of computational mathematics (Dr A Hansen) 2016-11-09 10:00: Flexible Paxos (Heidi Howard, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-09 10:15: An exact, efficient, and flexible representation of statistical models for DNA profiles (Therese Graversen (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen))) 2016-11-09 12:30: Inference platform for Ancestry Informative Markers (Torben Tvedebrink (Aalborg Universitet; Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen))) 2016-11-09 13:05: Building a Secure Bank (Daniel Chatfield, Security Engineer, Monzo) 2016-11-09 14:00: Detection of climate and environmental change in the big data era (Dr. Claudie Beaulieu, Univ. Southampton) 2016-11-09 14:00: Short Course: Lecture 1 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration (Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech.) 2016-11-09 16:15: Web search in an AI world: small, cute, distributed. (Dr Aurelie Herbelot - University of Trento) 2016-11-09 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-09 17:00: Information gaps in conservation science: from data collection to analysis and practices (Tatsuya Amano, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-09 17:30: Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire (Professor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-10 09:00: Open Source and NLP (Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Aurelie Herbelot (Trento), Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Behrang QasemiZadeh (Düsseldorf), Nandaja Varma, Esther Seyffarth (Düsseldorf), Hrishikesh K.B. (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing)) 2016-11-10 11:00: Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning (Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)) 2016-11-10 11:30: FEniCS-Shells: solving thin structural theories using a high-level finite element language (Dr Jack S. Hale, Research Unit in Engineering Science, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of Luxembourg.) 2016-11-10 13:00: "Improving your CV” Careers Workshop (Susan Gatell, Cambridge University Careers Service) 2016-11-10 13:30: Sketching methods (John Bradshaw) 2016-11-10 14:00: Controllability and stabilizability of piecewise affine dynamical systems (Kanat Camlibel, University of Groningen) 2016-11-10 14:15: Objective assessment of depression and its improvement (Szymon Fedor) 2016-11-10 14:15: Convex separation from convex optimization for large-scale problems (Steve Brierley, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-10 15:00: Flexible Paxos: Reaching agreement without majorities (Heidi Howard (Computer Laboratory)) 2016-11-10 15:30: Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes (Richard Turner, Cambridge) 2016-11-10 15:30: Engineering Privacy for Small Groups (Graham Cormode (University of Warwick)) 2016-11-10 16:00: Spatial polarization vision in crustaceans (Dr Martin How, Bristol University) 2016-11-11 09:45: A Bayesian nonparametric approach for the rare type problem (Giulia Cereda (Université de Lausanne; Universiteit Leiden)) 2016-11-11 11:30: Quantifying Information Content in Pattern Evidence (Karen Kafadar (University of Virginia)) 2016-11-11 12:00: Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative Zoning (Daniel Duma, University of Edinburgh) 2016-11-11 13:00: How to Break the Internet (Simon Chatterjee, Ensoft Ltd) 2016-11-11 13:15: Domain architecture in the Drosophila genome (Rob White PDN, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-11 14:00: Scalable computation of thermomechanical turbomachinery problems (Ettie Unwin & Nate Sime, CUED) 2016-11-11 14:00: Short Course: Lecture 2 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration (Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech.) 2016-11-11 16:00: Droplet interactions in microscale inket printing (Alice Thompson (University of Manchester)) 2016-11-11 19:00: Beyond the autopsy: Pathology saving lives in bowel cancer (Dr Nick West) 2016-11-14 09:00: Grid cells get back to the memory game (Alessandro Treves (SISSA)) 2016-11-14 13:05: Palantir and PCL (Privacy & Civil Liberties) (William Morland, Civil Liberties Engineer) 2016-11-14 14:00: The Quantified Self at Work (Dr Phoebe Moore (University of Middlesex)) 2016-11-14 14:00: Free Boundaries and Price Formation in Economic Markets (Peter Markowich) 2016-11-14 19:30: Big Data in Biology: Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare and Research (Dr Ewan Birney FRS FMedSci, European Bioinformatics Institute) 2016-11-15 09:00: Prospective coding by spiking neurons (Johanni Brea (EPFL)) 2016-11-15 13:15: Getting higher network performance on MirageOS (Takayuki Imada - Hitachi) 2016-11-15 16:00: Transposable elements and epigenome evolution (Prof. Ting Wang) 2016-11-15 16:30: Face Anonymity-Perceptibility Paradigm and an Application in Online Dating Industry (Dr. Shasha Lu, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-16 13:15: Taskerman: A Cluster Task Manager (Yelp team) 2016-11-16 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto) 2016-11-16 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto) 2016-11-16 14:00: Effective inversion of the attenuated X-ray transform associated with a connection. (Gabriel Paternain - DPMMS) 2016-11-16 16:15: PYNQ - Enabling Software Engineers to Program Heterogeneous, Reconfigurable SoCs ( Peter Ogden - Xilinx Inc) 2016-11-16 17:30: Technology: Transparency vs Privacy - Neal Katyal Lecture (Neal Katyal, Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown Law School) 2016-11-17 11:00: Industrial NLP Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains (Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters)) 2016-11-17 11:00: Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept? (Prof. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick)) 2016-11-17 11:30: Recruitment fair (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-17 12:15: Neural representations of uncertainty: the right tool for the right job (Cristina Savin (IST Austria)) 2016-11-17 13:30: deep generative models (Dave Janz; James Requeima) 2016-11-17 13:30: Poster session I (Various) 2016-11-17 14:00: Language dynamics: a neurocognitive approach to incremental interpretation (Lorraine K. Tyler) 2016-11-17 14:15: Display algorithms for high dynamic range video (Gabriel Eilertsen (Linköping University)) 2016-11-17 15:00: Natural Language Processing and online health reports (or OMG U got flu?) (Nigel Collier & Anna Korhonen) 2016-11-17 15:00: Bayesian Optimization for Accelerated Exploration of Chemical Space (José Miguel Hernández Lobato, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-17 15:30: Poster session II (Various) 2016-11-17 16:00: Evolution of the tetrapod tympanic ear (Professor Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard, University of Southern Denmark) 2016-11-17 16:30: Does natural language understanding have anything to do with understanding natural language? (Ann Copestake) 2016-11-17 17:00: A molecular genetic perspective on speech and language (Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)) 2016-11-17 18:00: Viral assembly (Prof Peter Stockley) 2016-11-18 11:30: Recruitment fair (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-18 12:00: Learning to Detect Stance and Represent Emojis (Isabelle Augenstein, University College London) 2016-11-18 13:15: "Why is the intestinal epithelia particularly susceptible to transformation by oncogenic APC mutations?" (Marc de la Roche, Biochemistry department, Cambridge) 2016-11-18 14:00: High temperature creep of superalloys: discrete dislocation plasticity modelling (Dr Siamak Shishvan, CUED) 2016-11-18 15:30: 'Body politics: the dilemmas of regulating new technologies' - policy roundtable and lecture (Several) 2016-11-18 16:00: Bioluminescent Reporter Screens: Illuminating Novel Regulators and Dynamics of Signaling Pathways (Prof. David Piwnica-Worms. Department of Cancer Systems Imaging Deputy Division Head, Research Affairs, Division of Diagnostic Imaging Gerald Dewey Dodd, Jr., Endowed Distinguished Chair in Diagnostic Imaging The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer C) 2016-11-18 19:00: Quantum Simulators with Polariton Graphs (Prof. Natalia Berloff, DAMTP) 2016-11-21 13:05: Super Sized Mobile Apps - Getting the Foundations Right (Mark Olleson, Bloomberg) 2016-11-21 14:00: Reconstruction methods for sparse-data tomography (Samuli Siltanen (University of Helsinki)) 2016-11-21 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: MOVING TOWARDS A SMALLER ROLE FOR HEALTH MAXIMISATION IN THE PRIORITISATION OF NHS RESOURCES (Dr Gabriele Badano (University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-21 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Christopher Yau) 2016-11-21 16:30: Adrian Seminar Series - Annual Lecture "How Do You Feel? Ion channels that sense mechanical force" (Ardem Patapoutian, The Scripps Research Institute, California) 2016-11-21 18:00: Climate change and local wildlife (Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire) 2016-11-21 19:15: Use of historical information to supplement a future study: opportunity and difficulty (Nick Galwey, GlaxoSmithKline) 2016-11-22 11:30: Rejection Sampling Variational Inference (Francisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-22 14:00: Smart Manufacturing: Operations Planning Perspective (Professor Bhupesh Lad (Indian Institute of Technology, Indore)) 2016-11-22 14:15: Minimal dense C*-embedded sublocales (Peter Johnstone (DPMMS)) 2016-11-22 14:30: How smart does your profile image look? Estimating intelligence from social network profile images (Xingjie Wei, The Psychometrics Centre, University of Cambridge ) 2016-11-22 15:30: Generalisation for Adaptive Data Analysis (Thomas Steinke (IBM Almaden Research Center)) 2016-11-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Brian Trippe (CBL)) 2016-11-22 18:00: Focus on Cambridge start-ups from ideaSpace (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-22 19:00: Symposium: Microbiology (Prof Kim Hardie and Dr Tom Ellis) 2016-11-23 12:00: Moving Pictures: Mathematical Reconstruction of Paintings (Dr Carola Schonlieb, DAMTP) 2016-11-23 14:00: Mining scientific diagrams for semantic information (Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-23 14:00: On structure preserving H-infinity optimal control (Professor Anders Rantzer, Lund University, Sweden) 2016-11-23 15:15: Automatic Identification and Parallelisation of General Reduction Operations (Philip Ginsbach, University of Edinburgh) 2016-11-23 16:00: The uneven impact of welfare reform on Britain's older industrial regions (Professor Christina Beatty, Sheffield Hallam University) 2016-11-23 16:15: Making Reactive Programs Function (Dr Neel Krishnaswami - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory) 2016-11-23 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2016 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-23 17:15: Engineering the Future: Engineering in Artificial Intelligence at Microsoft Research Cambridge (Christopher Bishop) 2016-11-23 19:30: An Introduction to Secure Hash Algorithms (Miranda McClellan, St Catherine's College) 2016-11-24 11:00: Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-11-24 11:00: A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddings (Krzysztof Choromanski, Google NY) 2016-11-24 11:00: Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations (Maria Liakata (Warwick University)) 2016-11-24 13:30: Bayesian Optimization (Pawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe) 2016-11-24 14:00: Stem cell control in the Drosophila gut (Professor Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah ) 2016-11-24 14:00: Substrate Enzyme-Sequestration in Multisite Protein Phosphorylation - Introducing WCDD M-matrices in designing stationary probability distributions (Andreas Petrides, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-24 14:00: A predictive grouping maintenance strategy for bridge networks (Zhenglin Liang (Research Associate)) 2016-11-24 14:00: Seeing with Structure: Computer Vision as Inverse Physics (Chris Russell, Turing Institute) 2016-11-24 14:15: Understanding Agency and Timing in Mixed-Initiative Interaction (Guo Yu (University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-24 14:45: The Impact of Computer Interfaces on Multi-Objective Negotiation Problems (Moe Hadhrawi (University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-24 15:30: Eugenic sterilization in California: from demographic analysis to digital storytelling (Alexandra Minna Stern (University of Michigan)) 2016-11-24 16:00: Stem cells, gene editing, and cellular models of human neurological disease (Dr Florian Merkel, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-24 16:00: ENS Special Event - "Big data and structured patterns" & "Bayesian networks in crime evidence analysis" (Professor Sofia Olhede (University college London) & Dr Leila Schneps (Pierre and Marie Curie University, Author of 'Maths on Trial')) 2016-11-24 17:00: Thomas Rid: "2084: Cryptography, Magic, and Politics" (Professor Thomas Rid (War Studies, King's College London)) 2016-11-24 17:00: Using statistics to estimate the extent of dementia in the population (Professor Fiona Matthews, University of Newcastle and MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2016-11-24 17:15: Data management technology for humanitarian and conflict zones: The Dharma platform. (Jesse Erin Berns - CEO Dharma Platform) 2016-11-24 17:30: Pembroke College - BT Lecture: What is Data Science, what do Data Scientists do, and how can we have a Science of Data? (Dr Simon Thompson, Head of Practice, Big Data and Customer Experience, BT Research) 2016-11-24 19:00: BRITISH CYCLING (Tony Purnell, Head of Technical Development at British Cycling) 2016-11-25 10:00: The evolutionary perspective on technology roadmaps: Towards the era of roadmap 2.0 (Sungjoo Lee (Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Ajou University, Suwon, Korea)) 2016-11-25 10:00: The evolutionary perspective on technology roadmaps: Towards the era of roadmap 2.0 (Sungjoo Lee (Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering at Ajou University, Suwon, Korea)) 2016-11-25 10:45: Datatypes as algebras (Philip Saville (University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-25 11:00: Kernels for Sequentially Ordered Data (Dr Franz Kiraly) 2016-11-25 12:00: On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems (Pei-Hao Su (University of Cambridge)) 2016-11-25 13:15: Lung Stem Cell Niche in Health and Disease (Joo-Hyeon Lee Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-25 14:00: Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales - Mechanics Colloquium (Prof Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy) 2016-11-25 14:00: Biological and bio-inspired locomotion at small scales (Prof Antonio De Simone, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Italy) 2016-11-25 16:00: How to frack into and out of trouble (Herbert Huppert (DAMTP)) 2016-11-25 16:00: Distance metrics in modelling the spatial spread of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the US (Maria Tang & Stephen Kissler, DAMTP) 2016-11-25 19:00: Mathematical Thinking: Fast and Slow (Professor Martin Hyland, DPMMS) 2016-11-27 13:00: John Wallis Workshop (Anybody who wishes to give a talk is most welcome to.) 2016-11-28 09:00: Workshop on Disaster Resilient Supply Chain Operations (DROPS) in South Asia (Multiple speakers (see programme details) - tm487@cam.ac.uk) 2016-11-28 12:00: Workshop/The Ethics of Using Machine Learning in Professional Practice (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-28 13:00: CGHR Research Group: "Digital Media as Experimental Governance: Shifting the Accountability Paradigm in International Human Rights?" (Matthew S. Mahmoudi (University of Cambridge); Discussant: Dr. Srinivasan) 2016-11-28 14:00: Phaseless super-resolution using masks (James Saunderson, Monash University) 2016-11-28 15:00: Predictive Manufacturing: Statistical Data mining for manufacturing data (ABDUL RAUF KHAN PhD Fellow, Automation and Control Departmet of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark) 2016-11-28 15:00: FPGA Implementations of High-bandwidth and Low-Latency Machine Learning based on Online Kernel Methods (Prof Philip Leong, University of Sydney) 2016-11-28 16:00: Deep Neural Networks (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)) 2016-11-28 19:00: The Mystery of Deja vu: What do Financial Time Series, DNA Sequences and Spreadsheets Have in Common? (Bjoern Stiel, Founder of Fintech Startup Pathio; ex-UBS Quant ) 2016-11-28 19:30: Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair (Prof. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-29 09:00: Personalised healthcare: making the most of genomics (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-11-29 14:30: "A Bayesian analysis of microbiome data" (Dr Sergio Bacallado, University of Cambridge) 2016-11-29 15:00: The Future of Computer Architecture (Gavin Stark, Visiting Fellow, Computer Laboratory) 2016-11-29 18:00: Enterprise Tuesday 2016-2017: Building a dream team (Nick Halstead, CEO & Founder, Cognitive Logic; and Ricky Kothari, Co-Founder & CEO, T-Sticks of London) 2016-11-30 14:00: Inferring rapidly-varying big data time series--from deconvolution to a new form of time series model (Sofia Olhede, UCL) 2016-11-30 16:00: Multi-scale analysis of low carbon energy systems (Dr Niall MacDowell, Imperial College London) 2016-11-30 16:00: Rothschild Lecture: The Promise of Differential Privacy (Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University)) 2016-11-30 16:15: Architectural Impacts of the Silicon Performance Wall (Dr Gavin Stark - Netronome and Visiting Industrial Fellow, Computer Laboratory.) 2016-12-01 10:00: Well-founded functions, induction, and extreme predicates in an SMT-based verifier (Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Redmond) 2016-12-01 10:00: Well-founded functions, induction, and extreme predicates in an SMT-based verifier (Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Redmond) 2016-12-01 10:30: Popular Understanding of Statistics and its Impacts on the Law (Gerd Gigerenzer (Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung)) 2016-12-01 11:00: Learning with limited supervision (Stefano Ermon, Stanford) 2016-12-01 12:00: The Use of Forensic Databases in Forensic Casework (Marjan Sjerps (Universiteit van Amsterdam; Netherlands Forensic Institute)) 2016-12-01 12:30: The power and pitfalls of ontologies in data integration (Dr Helen Parkinson, Head of Molecular Archival Resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)) 2016-12-01 12:30: Using Bayes Nets for Reasoning with Evidence: Real Life Examples (David Lagnado (University College London)) 2016-12-01 13:30: Symmetry in Statistical Models (Mark Rowland; Maria Lomeli) 2016-12-01 14:00: RSC Prizewinner's seminar - From the Digitisation of Matter to Chemical Cybernetics (Prof. Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow) 2016-12-01 14:00: Challenges and Opportunities for Statistics in Digital Forensics (James Luck (Metropolitan Police)) 2016-12-01 14:00: Valid inference from non-ignorable network sampling mechanisms (Simon Lunagomez (University College London)) 2016-12-01 14:30: Educating Lawyers and Forensic Scientists about Probability and Statistics (Paul Roberts (University of Nottingham)) 2016-12-01 15:00: What predicts general practice variation in use of urgent referrals for suspected cancer and endoscopies? Associations with patient experience, clinical quality and practice characteristics (Silvia Mendonca) 2016-12-01 15:00: Quantum Dots and Dislocations: Dynamics of Materials Defects (Irene Fonseca, Carnegie Mellon University) 2016-12-01 15:30: On sensing what is not there (Andrew Welchman, Cambridge) 2016-12-01 15:30: Strategies to facilitate access to detailed geocoding information based on synthetic data (Joerg Drechsler (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt-und Berufsforschung)) 2016-12-01 15:50: The Relationship between Statistics and the Law - a Judicial Perspective (Lord Justice Kitchin (Royal Courts of Justice)) 2016-12-01 16:00: Illuminating mouse cortical activity maps using genetically encoded voltage indicators (Professor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial College London) 2016-12-01 16:30: A Risk-Utility Balancing Approach to Generate Synthetic Microdata (Atikur Khan (CSIRO)) 2016-12-01 17:45: Composition in Differential Privacy (Dr Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research) 2016-12-01 19:00: The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research (Dr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge) 2016-12-02 10:00: Supply Network Analytics: lessons learned from large-scale data (Alexandra Brintrup (University of Cambridge)) 2016-12-02 12:00: Internal Seminar pt. 2 (PhD students, NLIP group) 2016-12-02 13:00: Describing the HIV cascade of care using routine clinic and surveillance databases: methodological challenges (Caroline Sabin, Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, UCL Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare) 2016-12-02 13:15: Coping with a stressful start in life (Alex Gould The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2016-12-02 14:00: Topics in differential privacy: optimal noise and record perturbation baseddata sets (Jordi Soria-Comas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili )) 2016-12-02 15:00: High Resolution Optical and SAR Satellite Image Processing for Disaster Management using Hierarchical MRFs (Prof. Josiane Zerubia, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, INRIA, France ) 2016-12-02 16:00: Controversies in turbulence: Are we making progress? (Julian Hunt (UCL)) 2016-12-02 17:45: The art of computing with parallel universes: Quantum computing explained (Dr Fernando Gonzalez-Zarba -Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.) 2016-12-05 10:00: Welcome and Introduction (Robin Mitra (Lancaster University - Mathematics and Statistic Dept.); Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute)) 2016-12-05 10:10: Anonymisation Risk and Privacy (Mark Elliot (University of Manchester)) 2016-12-05 10:50: The Anonymisation Decision Making Framework (Elaine Mackey (University of Manchester)) 2016-12-05 11:10: Anonymisation and the Five Safes (Christine O'Keefe (CSIRO)) 2016-12-05 12:00: Transport and Data: Privacy by Design (Brendan Ludden (Oxford University Innovation LTD)) 2016-12-05 12:15: Privacy Risks and Solutions in Financial Services and Telco (Jason McFall (Privitar)) 2016-12-05 12:30: GB Smart Meter Programme - Network Operator Use of Electricity Consumption Data (Paul Abreu (Energy Networks Association)) 2016-12-05 12:45: New Life for Old Data: An Overview of the Clinical Trial Data Sharing Environment (Kelly Mewes (Roche Holding AG)) 2016-12-05 14:00: Data Anonymisation and Quantifying Risk Competition (Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University)) 2016-12-05 14:20: Synthetic Data as a Method for Protecting Confidentiality (Robin Mitra (Lancaster University - Mathematics and Statistic Dept.)) 2016-12-05 14:40: Directions in Big Data Anonymisation (Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili )) 2016-12-05 15:10: Automated Zone Design as an Aid to Effective Anonymisation (James Robards (University of Southampton)) 2016-12-05 16:30: "Negative-feedback control of cortical activity by the neuromodulator adenosine" PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE (Magnus Richardson, University of Warwick) 2016-12-06 10:00: Welcome and Introduction (Mark Elliot (University of Manchester); Jane Leeks (Newton Gateway to Mathematics); David Abrahams (Isaac Newton Institute)) 2016-12-06 10:10: Keynote Talk: The Dance of the Seven Veils: Privacy and its Discourses (Kieron O'Hara (University of Southampton)) 2016-12-06 11:00: Bayesian networks for the evaluation of evidence when attributing paintings to painters (Jacob de Zoete (Universiteit van Amsterdam)) 2016-12-06 11:50: Engaging Citizens in Questions of Health and Data Privacy (Malcolm Oswald (Citizens' Juries c.i.c)) 2016-12-06 12:10: End User Perspective: Personal Finance (Keith Spicer (Office for National Statistics)) 2016-12-06 12:30: A Calculus of Privacy? (Richard Pinch (GCHQ)) 2016-12-06 12:50: Session Questions () 2016-12-06 13:15: Consensus as a Network Service (Pietro Bressana) 2016-12-06 14:00: The Science and Practice of Consent (Richard Gomer (University of Southampton)) 2016-12-06 14:30: Personal Data Stores the Route to Data Independence, Portability, Trust and Seamless Services (David Alexander (None / Other)) 2016-12-06 15:15: Choice and Decision Making for Data Subjects Empowerment (Bettina Berendt (KU Leuven)) 2016-12-06 15:45: The Future of Data (Privacy) (Mark Elliot (University of Manchester)) 2016-12-06 16:15: Panel Discussion and Questions () 2016-12-07 10:00: Gaming the System for Privacy (Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University)) 2016-12-07 11:30: Combining statistical disclosure limitation methods to preserve relationships and data-specific constraints in survey data. (Anna Oganian (None / Other)) 2016-12-07 12:00: Bootstrapped Inference for Degree Distributions in Large Sparse Networks (Yulia Gel (University of Texas at Dallas; University of Waterloo)) 2016-12-07 13:30: Barred from work in Scottish prisons, data science to the rescue: discoveries about drugs-related deaths and women via record linkage - A part of Women in Data Science (WiDS) (Sheila Bird (Medical Research Council; University of Strathclyde)) 2016-12-07 14:15: A new relaxation of differential privacy - A part of Women in Data Science (WiDS) (Christine O'Keefe (CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics)) 2016-12-07 15:30: Theory for Society: Fairness in Classification (Cynthia Dwork (Microsoft (UK))) 2016-12-07 18:30: Developing tools to map the brain at synaptic resolution (Marta Costa (Dept. Genetics) and Philipp Schlegel (Dept. Zoology / L.M.B)) 2016-12-08 10:15: Individual Differential Privacy (Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili ); Jordi Soria-Comas (Universitat Rovira i Virgili )) 2016-12-08 11:00: Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that (Peter Watson (MRC-CBU)) 2016-12-08 11:30: PSI : a Private data Sharing Interface (Marco Gaboardi (University of Dundee)) 2016-12-08 12:00: The Price of Online Queries in Differential Privacy (Mark Bun (Princeton University)) 2016-12-08 13:30: Can we have medical privacy, cloud computing and genomics all at the same time? (Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge)) 2016-12-08 15:30: Anonymization of high-dimensional datasets (Grigorios Loukides (Cardiff University)) 2016-12-08 16:00: An empirical measure of attribution risk (for fully synthetic data) (Mark Elliot (University of Manchester)) 2016-12-08 16:30: Assessing Re-identification Risk in Sample Microdata (Natalie Shlomo (University of Manchester)) 2016-12-08 17:00: Discussion of the Future () 2016-12-09 09:30: Linkage and anonymisation in consumer finance (Ross Gayler (Australian National University)) 2016-12-09 11:00: The Lift Project: Performance Portable GPU Code generation via Rewrite Rules (Michel Steuwer (University of Edinburgh)) 2016-12-09 11:15: Statistical Asymptotics with Differential Privacy (Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State University)) 2016-12-09 12:00: Decentralising Data Collection and Anonymisation (Steven Murdoch (University College London)) 2016-12-09 14:15: Mixed effects models with covariates perturbed for SDC (Silvia Polettini (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza)) 2016-12-12 09:30: Continuous-time statistical models for network panel data (Tom Snijders (University of Groningen; University of Oxford)) 2016-12-12 11:15: Dynamic causal networks with multi-scale temporal structure (Eric Kolaczyk (Boston University)) 2016-12-12 13:30: Graphons and Machine Learning: Modeling and Estimation of Sparse Massive Networks - Part I (Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft (UK))) 2016-12-12 14:00: Buckling of Spherical Shells Revisited (John W. Hutchinson, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University) 2016-12-12 14:30: Graphons and Machine Learning: Modeling and Estimation of Sparse Massive Networks - Part II (Christian Borgs (Microsoft (UK))) 2016-12-12 16:00: Recognizing graphs formed by spatial random processes (Jeanette Janssen (Dalhousie University)) 2016-12-13 09:30: A network epidemic model with preventive rewiring: comparative analysis of the initial phase (Tom Britton (Stockholm University)) 2016-12-13 11:00: Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models (Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto)) 2016-12-13 11:15: Birds of a feather or opposites attract - effects in network modelling (Maria Deijfen ()) 2016-12-13 13:45: Study of the dynamics of bacterial communities in the Human Microbiome (Susan Holmes (Stanford University)) 2016-12-13 14:30: Provisional title: "Percentage study weights in meta-analysis and meta-regression" (Professor Richard Riley, Keele University) 2016-12-13 14:45: Dynamic networks in the human brain (Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvania )) 2016-12-13 16:00: Detecting change-points in the structure of a network: Exact Bayesian inference (Stéphane Robin (INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)) 2016-12-13 16:45: Markov process models for time-varying networks (Harry Crane (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)) 2016-12-14 11:15: Sparse Gaussian graphical models for dynamic gene regulatory networks (Veronica Vinciotti (Brunel University)) 2016-12-14 15:00: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot Collaboration (Elena Corina Grigore (Yale University)) 2016-12-14 16:30: Statistics Clinic, Christmas Vacation 2016 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2016-12-15 09:30: Mining differential correlation (Andrew Nobel (University of North Carolina )) 2016-12-15 11:00: Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated models (Daniel Roy (University of Toronto)) 2016-12-15 11:15: Bayesian Poisson Tensor Decomposition for International Relations (Hanna Wallach (Microsoft (UK))) 2016-12-15 14:00: The Effect of Recommendations on Network Structure (Sharad Goel (Stanford University)) 2016-12-15 14:45: The spread of infections on evolving scale-free networks (Peter Mörters (University of Bath)) 2016-12-15 15:00: ClassBench-ng: Recasting ClassBench After a Decade of Network Evolution (Jiri Matousek (Brno University of Technology)) 2016-12-15 16:00: Statistical clustering of temporal networks through a dynamic stochastic block model (Catherine Matias (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique); Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris)) 2016-12-15 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Matthew Kerr (CBL)) 2016-12-16 09:30: Vector Autoregressive based Network Models (George Michailidis (University of Florida)) 2016-12-16 11:00: Finding and hiding the seed (Miklos Racz (Microsoft (UK))) 2016-12-16 11:30: Models and Capacity Bounds for Optical Fibre Channels (Prof. Gerhard Kramer, TU Munich) 2016-12-16 11:45: Edge- and vertex-reinforced random walks with super-linear reinforcement on infinite graphs (Codina Cotar (University College London)) 2016-12-16 13:30: On the Statistical Estimation of the Preferential Attachment Network Model (Fengnan Gao (Universiteit Leiden)) 2016-12-16 14:15: Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Networks using Egocentrically-Sampled Data (Pavel Krivitsky (University of Wollongong)) 2016-12-16 14:30: Computational biology and tools for uncovering hidden information from the viral dark matter. (Professor Alejandro Reyes Munoz, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia) 2016-12-16 15:30: tba (Patrick Wolfe (University College London)) 2017-01-09 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: NICE Technology Appraisal Process and Challenges to Decision Makers (Dr Amanda Adler, Chair, NICE Technology Appraisal Committee B) 2017-01-09 19:30: Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation (Prof. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge) 2017-01-12 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-01-12 14:30: “Statistical opportunities and challenges in observational health data: Addressing missingness using two-phase sampling for nonresponse: methods and benefits" (Dr Matthew Sperrin, University of Manchester) 2017-01-13 14:00: Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce (Dr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc) 2017-01-13 14:00: Materials Challenges for Rolls Royce (Dr Neil Glover, Head of Materials - Capability Acquisition at Rolls-Royce plc) 2017-01-13 14:00: A new perspective from Information Theory on genetic sequences (Omri Tal, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences) 2017-01-13 16:15: Modeling cancer evolution from genomic data (Beerenwinkel, Niko, Prof. Dr.) 2017-01-16 14:00: MRI: How can we help each other? (Martin Graves, Cambridge University Hospitals) 2017-01-17 14:00: Trends in Online Payment Security (Mohammed Aamir Ali, Newcastle University) 2017-01-18 16:30: Can we infer patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data? (Enrico Crema (Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge)) 2017-01-18 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-01-18 17:00: Microscopes, telescopes or kaleidoscopes? Using digital quantitative methods to explore patterns and textures in a literary corpus (Julie Blake, University of Cambridge) 2017-01-19 11:00: Reflections on Universal Dependencies (Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University)) 2017-01-19 13:30: NIPS 2016 papers in 5mins (MLG members) 2017-01-19 14:00: Predicting the pleiotropic effects of circadian timing, from clock gene expression to biomass. (Professor Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh) 2017-01-19 14:30: "Dynamic prediction of survival using landmarking in large healthcare databases, with an application in cystic fibrosis" (Dr Ruth Keogh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) 2017-01-19 15:00: High-level development and debugging of FPGA-based network programs (Nik Sultana (University of Cambridge)) 2017-01-19 18:30: HARNESSING THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY TSUNAMIS TO DISRUPT THE FUTURE OF ONLINE GROCERY RETAIL (Paul Clarke, Ocado) 2017-01-19 19:00: Politics and Biology (Dr Julian Huppert) 2017-01-20 12:00: Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text (Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy) 2017-01-20 14:00: How many stem cells can you fit in a stem cell niche? (Prof Henrik Jönsson, Associate Director Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge, ) 2017-01-20 16:00: Spin-down in a rapidly rotating cylinder container with mixed rigid and stress free boundary conditions (Andrew Soward (Newcastle University)) 2017-01-20 16:00: From virtual screening to mode of action analysis: How computers can help chemical biology and drug discovery (Andreas Bender, Centre for Molecular Informatics, University of Cambridge) 2017-01-20 17:30: Extreme Weather (Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS) 2017-01-23 13:00: Athena SWAN - My Life in science Seminar "There’s more to academia than research, you know" (Dr Danny Kingsley; Head of Scholarly Communication, University of Cambridge) 2017-01-23 13:05: Making your Applications Smarter Through Machine Learning APIs (Lilian Kasem, Microsoft UK) 2017-01-23 16:30: "The visual cortex as a cognitive blackboard" (Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) 2017-01-23 19:30: Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics (Prof. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge) 2017-01-24 11:00: Julia: Introduction and new developments (Dr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing)) 2017-01-24 12:30: Predicting Intra-Day Load Profiles under Time-Of-Use Tariffs Using Smart Meter Data (Melvyn Weeks (University of Cambridge) ) 2017-01-24 12:30: ‘The present and future of primary care big data research’ (Professor Deborah Saltman, Chair, Independent Scientific Advisory Committee, Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD)) 2017-01-24 15:00: COSD (The Cancer Outcomes and Services Dataset)- Understanding the complexity of such a large dataset (Andy Murphy (NCRAS)) 2017-01-24 16:00: Information gaps in ecology and conservation (Tatsuya Amano (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk / Department of Zoology University of Cambridge)) 2017-01-24 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL)) 2017-01-24 19:00: Symposium: Nanomedicine (Sir Mark Welland and Ruth Cameron) 2017-01-24 20:00: Project Malmo: turning Minecraft into a testbed for the future of AI (Katja Hofmann, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2017-01-25 14:00: Estimation in the Ising blockmodel (Quentin Berthet) 2017-01-25 15:00: Variational Bayes In Private Settings (Mijung Park, University of Amsterdam) 2017-01-25 19:30: How to Render Stuff with OpenGL (Sam Hubbard, Homerton College) 2017-01-26 11:00: Learning to Generate Textual Data (Pontus Stenetorp (UCL)) 2017-01-26 11:00: The Future of Microprocessors (Ms Sophie Wilson FREng FRS) 2017-01-26 14:00: Comparative population genomics in animals: genetic diversity, adaptive rate, species barrier (Dr Nicolas Galtier, University of Montpellier ) 2017-01-26 14:15: Pose and Pathsoformel in Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas (Leonardo Impett, EPFL) 2017-01-26 15:00: Towards an SDN-enabled Federated Internet (Roberto di Lallo (QMUL)) 2017-01-26 15:30: Garbage in, garbage out? A history of representations of computers in popular media (James Sumner (University of Manchester)) 2017-01-26 16:00: Retinal functomics: What the eye tells the brain, and how it got there (Dr Tom Baden, University of Sussex) 2017-01-27 13:00: Metrology – a small pool with wide reach. (Dr Max Ryadnov Science Leader for Biometrology, National Physical Laboratory, UK) 2017-01-27 14:00: The non-linear mechanics of slender deformable bodies (Prof Basile Audoly, Laboratoire de mécanique des solides, École Polytechnique) 2017-01-27 16:00: 3D holographic imaging of microswimmers (Dr. Laurence Wilson. Department of Physics. University of York) 2017-01-27 16:00: Fluid deformation of the solid Earth: Bending and breaking rock and ice (Jerome Neufeld (BPI/DES/DAMTP)) 2017-01-27 17:30: Extreme Events and How to Live with Them (Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York) 2017-01-30 10:00: Academic Writing (Dr. Karen Ottewell MCIL, University of Cambridge Language Centre) 2017-01-30 14:00: Locating the Cloud in Sweden‘s North (Dr Asta Vonderau, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University) 2017-01-30 16:00: The blind watch-breaker: evolution at regulatory sites in cancer (Prof. Colin Semple) 2017-01-30 18:00: G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices (Professor Michael Cates FRS FRSE, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP) 2017-01-31 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs (Group Discussion) 2017-02-01 14:00: Ribosome profiling and virus infection (Dr Andrew Firth Division of Virology ( University of Cambridge, UK)) 2017-02-01 16:15: GLOBULAR: A PROOF ASSISTANT FOR DIAGRAMMATIC SCIENCE (Jamie Vicary - Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford) 2017-02-01 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-02-02 13:00: Non-coding solutions to developmental challenges (Professor Donal O’Carroll, Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 2017-02-02 15:00: Internet Monitoring at Scale (Michael Meisel (VP Engineering at ThousandEyes)) 2017-02-02 15:30: Only predict? Conscious experience, and the scope and limits of predictive processing (Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)) 2017-02-02 16:00: Internet measurements in Africa (Amreesh Phokeer (AFRINIC)) 2017-02-02 18:45: What can gambling machine data tell us about betting behaviour? (David Excell, Featurespace) 2017-02-02 19:00: Ieso - digital health (Julian Coe) 2017-02-03 13:15: Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in brain development and cancer (Eugene Makeyev, Dept. of Developmental Neurobiology, King’s College London) 2017-02-03 14:00: A multiscale modelling strategy for virtual design of metallic alloys (Prof Javier LLorca, IMDEA Materials Institute, University of Madrid) 2017-02-03 16:00: Simple regulatory strategies to control stochastic fluctuations in gene expression ( Prof Michele Caselle, Department of Physics, University of Turin, Italy) 2017-02-03 16:00: Atypical late-time singular regimes accurately diagnosed in stagnation-point-type solutions of 3D Euler flows (Miguel Bustamante (University College Dublin) ) 2017-02-03 17:30: Dealing with Extremism (Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-06 13:00: B modes: component separation using Gibbs sampling in the context of the SPIDER experiment (Benjamin Racine (UiO Oslo)) 2017-02-06 19:30: Black Holes at Work (prof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-07 13:15: Machine Learning demystified: ask the right questions (Bianca Furtuna, Micosoft) 2017-02-07 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization (Group Discussion) 2017-02-07 16:00: Decision-making and artificial general intelligence using deep neural networks (Audrunas Gruslys, Google Deep Mind) 2017-02-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alberto Bernacchia (CBL)) 2017-02-08 14:00: Computational Biology and Drug Discovery (Philippe Sanseau - GSK R&D) 2017-02-08 16:15: Data Science for the World of Moving Things (Dr Damon Wischik - Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-09 11:00: Challenges and opportunities in the use of Internet data for insights on medicine (Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research)) 2017-02-09 14:00: Decoding transcriptional regulation. (Dr Alexander Stark, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna ) 2017-02-09 14:00: Lasp: Dataflow programming for large-scale distributed applications (Christopher Meiklejohn) 2017-02-09 14:00: A Control Systems Perspective on Supercapacitor Modelling and Design (Ross Drummond, University of Oxford) 2017-02-09 15:00: Groove Radio: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Personalized Playlist Generation (Noam Koenigstein (Microsoft Research)) 2017-02-09 16:00: Signaling pathways to resilience or dysfunction in the brain (Professor Giles Hardingham, University of Edinburgh) 2017-02-09 18:30: Crunching the Numbers: Introducing Analytics in Your Organisation (Stella Pachidi (University of Cambridge)) 2017-02-09 19:00: The Science Behind Mental Health (Dr Shahid Zaman) 2017-02-10 11:00: Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programs (Valentin Dalibart) 2017-02-10 12:00: Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data (Gerasimos Lampouras, University of Sheffield) 2017-02-10 13:15: Pluripotency at the multicellular level (Marta Shahbazi, PDN, University of Cambridge ) 2017-02-10 14:00: Flux and context-dependent graphs for metabolic networks (Mariano Beguerisse, Oxford) 2017-02-10 14:00: TALK CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Hydrogen embrittlement in metals - the role of internal stresses (Prof Alan Cocks, Materials Engineering, University of Oxford) 2017-02-10 14:00: Bilinear Inverse Problems: How much does structure help? (Leverhulme Lecture) (Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California) 2017-02-10 15:00: Applications of numerical algebraic geometry (Heather Harrington Oxford) 2017-02-10 16:00: Optimal transport and mesh adaptivity for global atmospheric modelling (Hilary Weller (University of Reading) ) 2017-02-10 17:30: Extreme Rowing (Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University) 2017-02-10 17:45: Can mobile phones help people quit smoking? (Dr. Felix Naughton, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, University of East Anglia) 2017-02-13 14:00: The Growth of Internet Services and Energy Demand - Is there a Limit? (Dr Mike Hazas, Department of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University) 2017-02-13 14:00: ‘The Growth of Internet Services and Energy Demand – Is there a Limit’ (Dr Mike Hazas, University of Lancaster) 2017-02-13 16:30: "Turning glia into neurons - from scar formation to repair" (Magdalena Goetz, Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen) 2017-02-13 18:00: A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One (Dr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science) 2017-02-14 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization (Group Discussion) 2017-02-15 14:00: Integrating Chemical and Biological Data for Drug Discovery (Dr Andreas Bender) 2017-02-15 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-02-16 11:00: Title to be confirmed (Ekaterina Shutova) 2017-02-16 13:00: Postponed: Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst) (Sophia Ananiadou, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester) 2017-02-16 13:30: Probabilistic Numerics (Alessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge)) 2017-02-16 14:00: Positivity, Monotonicity, and Consensus on Lie Groups (Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-16 14:15: Graphics and Interaction related Part II Project Presentations (Gyuri Denes (University of Cambridge)) 2017-02-16 15:00: A Digital Architecture for Future Cities (Ian Lewis (University of Cambridge)) 2017-02-16 16:00: In vivo studies of cellular and subcellular mechanisms that build the vertebrate brain (Professor Jon Clarke, King's College London) 2017-02-16 19:00: Cancer Research (Prof Richard Gilbertson) 2017-02-17 13:15: Exploring the mechanisms of haematopoietic lineage progression at the single-cell level (Ana Cvejic, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-17 14:00: Uncovering fatigue damage development in unidirectional composites using x-ray computed tomography (Lars Mikkelsen, Institute for Wind Energy, DTU, Denmark ) 2017-02-17 16:00: Buoyancy and chemical effects in geophysics (Silvana Cardoso (Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology)) 2017-02-17 17:30: Extremes of the Universe (Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-20 10:00: Dynamic reorganization of neuronal activity patterns in parietal cortex (Laura Driscoll (Harvard University)) 2017-02-20 13:05: SpatialOS: a distributed operating system for building large simulated worlds. (Matt Lewis, Improbable) 2017-02-20 16:30: "Modeling others during social exchange: neuroimaging and neuromodulatory correlates" (Read Montague, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and University College London) 2017-02-20 19:30: Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens (Prof. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge) 2017-02-21 13:00: Improving Diagnosis in the Era of Electronic Health Records (Dr Hardeep Singh, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston and Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center) 2017-02-21 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (CBL)) 2017-02-22 12:30: A life-course investigation of influences on physical inactivity stability and change: findings from the 1958 British Birth Cohort (Dr Snehal Pinto Pereira, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.) 2017-02-22 14:00: Advancing Medicine through Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Oxford and Alan Turing Institute) 2017-02-22 16:15: CHERI - Architectural support for software memory protection and compartmentalisation (Robert N. M. Watson - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory) 2017-02-22 18:00: 'Whose Recovery?’ - Andy Haldane (Andy Haldane) 2017-02-23 11:00: Computational approaches for deciphering the regulation of cancer genomes (Shamith Samarajiwa) 2017-02-23 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks (Group Discussion) 2017-02-23 14:00: Rate and pattern of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by a commensal bacteria (Dr Isabel Gordo, Evolutionary Biology Group, Gulbenkian Institute, Lisbon ) 2017-02-23 14:15: Graphics related Part II Project Presentations (Various Part II students) 2017-02-23 14:30: CANCELLED - Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations (Prof Richard Emsley, University of Manchester) 2017-02-23 15:00: Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning (Dylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley) 2017-02-23 16:00: Live imaging inflammation in wound healing and cancer (Professor Paul Martin, University of Bristol) 2017-02-23 17:30: Shaping Public Health Policy on Infectious Diseases through Evidence Synthesis (Dr Daniela De Angelis, Programme Leader, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2017-02-23 18:30: IET PRESTIGE LECTURE - ROBOTS HELPING PEOPLE (Professor Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College) 2017-02-24 12:00: EACL potpourri (NLIP PhDs and postdocs) 2017-02-24 13:00: Measuring and visualising worldwide trends in cardiovascular risk factors (Professor Majid Ezzati, Imperial College London) 2017-02-24 13:15: Highlights from the “Deciphering the Mechanisms of Developmental Disorders (DMDD) consortium” – novel insights into gene function during embryogenesis (Myriam Hemberger, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2017-02-24 14:00: Transfer functions of infinite-dimensional systems: positive realness, stabilization and absolute stability (Chris Guiver, University of Bath) 2017-02-24 14:15: Nanopores in 2d materials‐opportunities and challenges (Aleksandra Radenovic, Associate Professor,Laboratory of Nanoscale Biology, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Engineering École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 2017-02-24 16:00: Two stories on Ostwald ripnening in microfluidic devices (Charles Baroud (École polytechnique)) 2017-02-24 17:30: Extreme Politics (Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent) 2017-02-24 17:30: The Fifteenth Annual Stasiuk Lecture in Contemporary Ukrainain Studies: Ukraine in Transition (Natalie Jaresko, former Finance Minister of Ukraine) 2017-02-27 12:00: A missing data approach to data-driven filtering and control (Ivan Markovsky, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 2017-02-27 13:05: Fast Models : How dynamic translation fits into ARM's story (: LLoyd Reed - Staff Software Engineer & Team Lead, ARM) 2017-02-27 14:00: What's in my stuff? (Dr Karen Vernon-Parry (Department of Engineering and Mathematics) and Maria Hanson (Reader in Metalwork and Jewellery), Sheffield Hallam University) 2017-02-27 16:30: "Molecular regulation of cortical interneuron diversity and plasticity" (Oscar Marin, King's College London) 2017-02-27 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacology ( Professor Calum A MacRae, Chief of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, USA) 2017-02-28 16:00: An industrial researcher’s learning experience (Evren Yarman, Schlumberger) 2017-03-01 14:00: From Infinite to Finite Programs: Explicit Error Bounds with Applications to Approximate Dynamic Programming ( Tobias Sutter, ETH Zurich) 2017-03-01 14:00: Two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils (Dr Elizabeth Murchison, Dept. of Veterinary Medicine ) 2017-03-01 16:15: AI Meets Cancer (Dr Jasmin Fisher - Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge & Microsoft Research) 2017-03-01 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2017 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-03-01 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability (Professor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials, Department of Engineering) 2017-03-02 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets (Group Discussion) 2017-03-02 14:00: Understanding the causes of variation in nucleotide diversity across the genome (Professor Peter Keightley, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh ) 2017-03-02 14:15: Designing Bregman storage functions for microgrid control (Nima Monshizadeh, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-02 15:00: Towards a Stateful Forwarding Abstraction for Software and Hardware Network Functions (Roberto Bifulco (NEC)) 2017-03-02 15:30: Disrupting Developer Productivity One Bot At A Time, Margaret-Anne (Peggy) Storey, University of Victoria / Microsoft TSE (Margaret-Anne Storey - University of Victoria / Microsoft TSE) 2017-03-02 16:00: Cell morphogenesis across scales: from molecular processes to cell-scale behaviour (Professor Ewa Paluch, University College London) 2017-03-02 19:00: Plant cytoskeletons (Patrick Hussey) 2017-03-03 12:00: Learning Hierarchical Word and Sentence Representations (Dani Yogatama, DeepMind) 2017-03-03 13:15: Transcription as a driver of epigenetic transitions during oocyte development (Gavin Kelsey, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2017-03-03 14:00: Shell buckling - without those ‘imperfections’ (Prof Chris Calladine, Structural Mechanics, CUED) 2017-03-03 15:00: Skinning a robot: Design Methodologies for Large-Scale Robot Skin (Dr Perla Maiolino , Goldsmiths University of London) 2017-03-03 16:00: Coherent structures in turbulent shear flows (Ashley Willis (University of Sheffield) ) 2017-03-03 17:30: Extreme Ageing (Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford) 2017-03-06 16:30: "Variability, robustness and modulation in neurons and networks" (Eve Marder, Brandeis University USA) 2017-03-06 19:30: A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour (Prof. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens) 2017-03-07 16:00: Below zero - negative interest rates as a challenge for the financial sector (Helge Grütjen, D-Fine Ltd) 2017-03-07 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Sebastian Schneegans (Bays Lab)) 2017-03-07 19:00: Enzyme Engineering (Alan Berry) 2017-03-08 14:00: Practical Bayesian modelling: Populism, polls, and petitions. (Tom Gillam (Cantab Capital Partners)) 2017-03-09 11:00: Knowledge Base Population from Text and Graphs (Lucas Sterckx (University of Ghent)) 2017-03-09 13:00: Mathematical modelling of the citrus disease Huanglongbing (Andrew Craig, Gilligan Group) 2017-03-09 13:30: Differential Privacy (John Bradshaw; Alex Matthews) 2017-03-09 13:30: Differential Privacy Tutorial (Alex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-09 14:15: Intelligent Inclusive Interaction Design (Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science) 2017-03-09 15:00: A Study of Bluetooth Low Energy Performance for Human Proximity Detection in the Workplace (Alessandro Montanari (University of Cambridge)) 2017-03-09 15:00: Mobile Sensing at the Service of Mental Well-being: a Large-Scale Longitudinal Study (Sandra Servia (QMUL)) 2017-03-09 16:00: Kv10.1: a potassium channel involved in malignant growth (Professor Walter Stuehmer, University of Goettingen (Germany)) 2017-03-10 11:00: Control, inference and learning (Prof. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen)) 2017-03-10 12:00: Neural Variational Inference for NLP (Yishu Miao, University of Oxford) 2017-03-10 13:15: Human embryogenesis and the first trimester intrauterine environment (Graham Burton, Centre for Trophoblast Research, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-10 14:00: Decompressive Craniectomy following Traumatic Brain Injury (Mr Hadie Adams, Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge ) 2017-03-10 16:00: Transport of particles at an air-liquid interface (Emilie Dressaire (NYU)) 2017-03-10 17:30: Reporting from Extreme Environments (Lyse Doucet, BBC) 2017-03-13 15:00: The General Relativity Theory of Cancer Epidemiology (Marie Louise Tørring, Aarhus University) 2017-03-13 16:00: Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors? (Dr Laurent Duret) 2017-03-13 16:00: Alternative splicing: widespread fine-tuning regulatory process or costly errors? (Dr Laurent Duret) 2017-03-13 18:00: Environmental diversity of Architecture (Professor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture) 2017-03-14 11:00: Differentially Private Bayesian Learning (Dr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki) 2017-03-14 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks (Group Discussion) 2017-03-14 14:00: Investment Prioritisation for Roadway Network Maintenance (Joel Adams (University of Cambridge)) 2017-03-14 16:00: Modelling commodity prices using novel data sources (Chris Longworth, Cantab) 2017-03-15 11:00: Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic Programs (Tom Rainforth, University of Oxford) 2017-03-15 12:30: Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks (Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) ) 2017-03-15 14:00: STORM: Stochastic Trust Region Framework with Random Models (Katya Scheinberg, Lehigh University) 2017-03-15 16:15: Are Sensor Networks a first step towards the Diamond Age? (Prof Julie McCann - Imperial College London) 2017-03-16 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-03-16 13:30: Kernel Mean Embeddings (Jiri Hron; Adam Scibior) 2017-03-16 15:00: Where Has My Time Gone? (Diana Andreea Popescu (Computer Lab)) 2017-03-16 16:00: Electrophysiology of autocrine and paracrine NMDA receptor signalling in invasive mouse pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour cells (Dr Hugh Robinson, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2017-03-17 16:00: Particulars of particulates (Nathalie Vriend (DAMTP)) 2017-03-20 11:00: From yard sticks to 3D fields in a turbulent world (Stuart Dalziel (DAMTP)) 2017-03-20 11:50: Do iceberges melt like glaciers? (Claudia Cenedese (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)) 2017-03-20 14:00: Views of the entrainment and mixing by turbulent plumes from following the plume and conditioning on its structure (Henry Burridge (Imperial College London)) 2017-03-20 14:50: Architectural fluid mechanics: From simplified models to low energy buildings (Guilherme Carrilho da Graça (University of Lisbon)) 2017-03-20 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Wealth, Marriage and Sex Selection. (Prof Kaivan Munshi, Faculty of Economics) 2017-03-20 16:10: Willful fluids and the pertinence of laboratory experiments (Bruce Sutherland (University of Alberta)) 2017-03-20 19:30: Towards General Artificial Intelligence (Dr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind) 2017-03-21 10:00: Bioinformatics (Balaji Santhanam, MRC LMB) 2017-03-21 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNs (Group Discussion) 2017-03-24 09:00: New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING (Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse) 2017-03-24 18:00: Gaia's first data release: the galactic census begins (Cambridge Science Festival 2017) (Professor Gerry Gilmore) 2017-03-25 14:00: 'Maths vs Disease' (Dr Julia Gog) 2017-03-27 14:00: Facets of Information Theory (Young-Han Kim, University of California) 2017-03-28 11:00: Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application (Prof. Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)) 2017-03-28 14:30: "The Analysis of Recurrent Events: A Summary of Methodology and Informative Censoring Considerations" (Dr Jennifer Rogers, University of Oxford) 2017-03-29 13:00: Generalizing Convolutions for Deep Learning (Prof. Max Welling (University of Amsterdam)) 2017-03-30 15:00: Pandia: comprehensive contention-sensitive thread placement (Daniel Goodman (Oracle)) 2017-03-31 09:30: The Power Switch; How Power is Changing in a Networked World - an international symposium (An international panel of speakers) 2017-03-31 13:15: Security and Privacy in Machine Learning (Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University) 2017-03-31 13:15: Security and Privacy in Machine Learning (Nicolas Papernot, Pennsylvania State University) 2017-04-03 14:00: Sparse trees and long memory: Bayesian inference for discrete time series (Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business) 2017-04-03 16:00: Functional variation in the human genome: lessons from the transcriptome (Prof. Tuuli Lappalainen) 2017-04-04 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders (Group Discussion) 2017-04-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Hannah Sheahan (CBL)) 2017-04-05 10:30: Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View (Gabriel Brostow (University College London)) 2017-04-05 10:30: Predicting 3D Volume and Depth from a Single View (Gabriel Brostow (University College London)) 2017-04-05 15:00: Local Convergence of the Heavy-ball Method and iPiano for Non-convex Optimization (Peter Ochs (Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg)) 2017-04-05 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation 2017 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-04-06 15:00: 200 ppi and other annoying things about displays (Mark Hayter (Google)) 2017-04-11 13:30: Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning (Group Discussion) 2017-04-13 11:00: Internal LTL meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-04-18 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (James Heald (CBL)) 2017-04-19 08:30: Title to be confirmed (Albert Guillen i Fabregas (Department of Engineering)) 2017-04-19 09:25: Title to be confirmed (Young-Han Kim, University of California) 2017-04-19 10:30: Title to be confirmed (Ioannis Kontoyiannis, Athens University of Economics and Business) 2017-04-20 11:00: Semantic (Vector) Representations of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities and their Applications (Jose Camacho-Collados (Sapienza University of Rome)) 2017-04-20 14:00: OPTIMAL PRODUCTION SEQUENCE FOR OFF-SITE CONSTRUCTION (Brian Robertson (University of Cambridge)) 2017-04-20 15:00: P4-NetFPGA (Stephen Ibanez (Stanford University)) 2017-04-24 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Are next generation sequencing technologies affordable? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a cancer panel versus single gene testing (Jilles Fermont, PhD Candidate) 2017-04-24 16:00: Building a bigger brain: genetic bases for the evolution of the human neocortex (Prof. Gregory A. Wray) 2017-04-24 19:30: Meet the Authors (TBA) 2017-04-25 13:00: Finding Signals in Twitter with ML/NLP at Bloomberg (Minjie Xu - Bloomberg Software Engineer, Social Media Analytics) 2017-04-26 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-04-27 11:00: Cross-lingual Learning 2.0 (Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen)) 2017-04-27 13:00: Microsoft & the Future of Education Technology & Learning (Ian Fordham, Microsoft) 2017-04-27 14:00: The genetic analysis of population-scale data (Professor Gil McVean, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford ) 2017-04-27 15:00: Open Source Network Tester on NetFPGA-SUME Platform (Jong Hun Han (Computer Lab)) 2017-04-27 16:00: Removing tumours from within and around the brain (Dr Thomas Santarius) 2017-04-28 11:00: Prognosis for gas turbines. (Zhenlin Liang (University of Cambridge) 2017-04-28 14:00: Unknowns of energy concentrating phenomena (Prof Seth Putterman, UCLA ) 2017-04-28 16:00: Oscillations in fluid dynamics (Beth Wingate (University of Exeter)) 2017-05-02 13:15: How can you trust formally verified software? (Alastair Reid, ARM) 2017-05-03 13:00: Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning (Aapo Hyvarinen (University College London) 2017-05-03 13:00: Applications of optimization and optimal control to some fundamental problems in mathematical fluid dynamics (Charlie Doering (University of Michigan)) 2017-05-03 16:00: Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences (Professor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc) 2017-05-04 14:00: Nuclear norm methods for frequency domain system identification (Roy Smith, ETH Zurich) 2017-05-04 14:00: Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast (Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg ) 2017-05-04 14:15: MR360: Mixed Reality Rendering for a 360° Panoramic Videos (Neil Dodgson) 2017-05-04 15:00: Routing the Future: Bootstrapping Internet Innovation (Marco Chiesa (University of Louvain)) 2017-05-04 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL)) 2017-05-05 13:15: Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance (Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-05 16:00: Optimal stirring for maximal mixing (NB: Batchelor Lecture) (Charlie Doering (University of Michigan)) 2017-05-08 16:00: A Novel Bioinspired Variable Stiffness Design Concept - Bridging the gap between Soft and Traditional Robotics (Agostino Stilli, KCL) 2017-05-08 16:30: Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation (Andreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen) 2017-05-08 19:30: Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods. (Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd.) 2017-05-10 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-05-11 11:00: Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces (Eva Maria Vecchi) 2017-05-11 14:00: Verification of Control Laws Using Formal Methods (Kestutis Siaulys, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-12 12:00: Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Semantically Specialised Vector Spaces (Nikola Mrskic, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-12 13:15: Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells (Elisa Laurenti, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-12 14:00: Engineering with uncertain load regimes and strange materials – the story of aerospace and nuclear safety critical components ( Prof Dave Rugg, Senior Fellow, Rolls Royce) 2017-05-12 16:00: Driving upwelling by heating the lower stratosphere (Alison Ming (DAMTP)) 2017-05-15 14:00: Performance Verification and Optimal Synthesis of Embedded Optimization-Based Controllers (Colin Jones, EPFL, Switzerland) 2017-05-15 16:00: To be confirmed (Dr Paz Polak) 2017-05-15 16:30: "Circular Inference in schizophrenia...and all of us" (Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris) 2017-05-16 14:00: Unlock the value of unstructured data in EAM – Unstructured Data Analysis ( Dr. Jing Gao, Associate Professor, University of South Australia, Australia) 2017-05-16 16:00: Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED Story (Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University) 2017-05-16 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Brian Trippe (CBL)) 2017-05-17 14:00: A macroscopic limit for an ecology model. (Gaël Raoul (Ecole polytechnique)) 2017-05-17 14:00: Demystifying deep learning (Petar Veličković (University of Cambridge)) 2017-05-17 16:00: Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future Electronics (Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University) 2017-05-18 10:00: Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration Languages (Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh) 2017-05-18 10:00: Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration Languages (Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh) 2017-05-18 11:00: Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations (Sebastian Riedel (UCL)) 2017-05-18 13:30: First year PhD presentations (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-05-18 14:15: Building an Intelligent Transportation System: Unveiling the Challenges (without the Hype!) (Glenford Mapp, Middlesex University) 2017-05-18 15:00: Energy methods for the geodesic X-ray transform (Mikko Salo (University of Jyväskylä)) 2017-05-19 12:00: Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling (Marek Rei, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-19 13:15: Bridging Crumb-mediated polarity and Hippo-mediated growth by Spectrin-bound PP2A (Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState) 2017-05-19 13:30: 2nd year PhD student talks (TBC) 2017-05-22 16:00: Statistical Bioinformatics at Scale (Prof. Alexander Schliep) 2017-05-22 19:30: Debate: "This house believes that Artificial Intelligence/Robotics will make us happy" (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-05-23 14:00: Experimental Medicine Imaging in Pharmaceutical Research - GSK clinical imaging overview and opportunities for collaboration (Marius de Groot (GSK)) 2017-05-23 14:30: “Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations” (Prof Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre) 2017-05-24 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-05-25 11:00: Location Resolution in Language Processing (Milan Gritta (University of Cambridge)) 2017-05-25 11:00: On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks (Martin Arjovsky) 2017-05-25 14:00: Distributed schemes for stability and optimality in power networks (Andreas Kasis, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-26 12:00: Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed? (Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield) 2017-05-26 13:15: Assembly of embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro (Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-26 14:00: Learning and Sparse Control of Multiagent Systems (Massimo Fornasier (TUM - Technische Universität München)) 2017-05-26 16:00: Light sheet fluorescence microscopy for fast volumetric imaging of bio-samples (Pablo Loza-Alvarez. Staff Scientist SLN Chief at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences. Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain ) 2017-05-26 16:00: Mean flows and large-scale vortices in rotating convection (Céline Guervilly (Newcastle University)) 2017-05-26 17:00: CCIMI special lecture: Mathematics Enters the Picture (Massimo Fornasier (TUM - Technische Universität München)) 2017-05-30 14:30: “The xyz algorithm for fast interaction search in high-dimensional data” (Dr Rajen Shah, University of Cambridge) 2017-05-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL)) 2017-05-31 14:00: Exceptional orthogonal polynomials (David Gomez-Ullate (ICMAT and Universidad Complutense de Madrid)) 2017-06-01 11:00: Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors (Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London)) 2017-06-01 14:00: Low-Rank Inducing Norms with Optimality Interpretations (Christian Grussler, University of Lund) 2017-06-01 14:15: The true story of the group now known as Pixar (Alvy Ray Smith, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Altamira, Microsoft...) 2017-06-01 15:00: Stabilizing unstable flows by coarse mesh observables and actuators - a pavement to data assimilation (Edriss Titi (Weizmann Institite & Texas A&M University)) 2017-06-01 16:00: Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair (Professor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid) 2017-06-02 12:00: Sentence-level Topic Models (Kris Cao (University of Cambridge)) 2017-06-02 13:15: Ascl1 control of neural stem cell homeostasis in the developing and adult brain (Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2017-06-02 16:00: Drops: A tool to structure materials (Prof. Esther Amstad, EPFL. Soft Materials Laboratory) 2017-06-02 16:00: Contact-line motion with mass transfer (Matt Saxton (DAMTP)) 2017-06-02 16:00: Microstructure imaging with MRI, data-driven disease progression modelling, and other topics at UCL-CMIC (Danny Alexander, UCL) 2017-06-05 14:00: Seeing beyond the visible: Segmentation of medical images using deep neural networks (Mike Hayball and Kuba Nalepa (Cambridge Computed Imaging)) 2017-06-05 19:30: "The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks (Lord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal.) 2017-06-07 12:00: NLP, the perfect social (media) science? (Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen) 2017-06-07 14:00: On the long time stability of travelling wave for the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equations (Erwan Faou (Inria)) 2017-06-07 14:00: Energy Systems Modeling and Controls (Mohsen Jafari (Rutgers University)) 2017-06-07 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-06-07 17:30: AI and Healthcare Open Evening at Microsoft Research (Christopher Bishop) 2017-06-08 17:00: Complex dynamics and elliptic curves (Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University)) 2017-06-09 12:00: Functional Distributional Semantics (Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge)) 2017-06-09 13:15: A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission (Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) 2017-06-09 14:00: Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications (Dr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge) 2017-06-09 16:00: Riemann problems for nonlinear dispersive PDE (Michael Shearer (North Carolina State University)) 2017-06-12 11:00: Vanishing laws of semantic change - studying semantic change using distributional word representations and proper control condition (Haim Dubossarsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2017-06-13 14:00: Excitable behaviors (Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge)) 2017-06-13 14:00: Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks (Jan Buys, University of Oxford) 2017-06-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Matthew Kerr (CBL)) 2017-06-14 10:00: Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction times (Yul Kang (Columbia University)) 2017-06-14 10:45: Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigation (Stefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute)) 2017-06-14 11:30: motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networks (Vincent Fortuin (ETH)) 2017-06-14 13:30: Seemingly Unrelated Regression models for mixed-type data with an application to "fine-mapping" in genetics (Leonardo Bottolo (MRC Biostatistics Unit & ATI fellow)) 2017-06-14 16:00: Physical Perspectives on Modern Computation (Samuel Power (University of Cambridge)) 2017-06-15 11:00: Linguists-defined and Machine-induced Natural Language Structures to Executable Logical Forms (Siva Reddy (Stanford University)) 2017-06-15 14:00: Digital Manufacturing, Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0 and Opportunities in Automation & Information Research (Duncan McFarlane (University of Cambridge)) 2017-06-15 16:00: The emergence of pluripotency and germline specification in non-rodent mammals (Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham)) 2017-06-16 11:00: Woolly Owl (Oxford/Cambridge) (18th Oxford/Cambridge Applied Mathematics Meeting) 2017-06-16 14:00: Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine (Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University) 2017-06-16 15:00: Deep NLP in language tutoring (Francis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 2017-06-16 16:00: How to read and write mechanical information in DNA molecules (prof. dr. Helmut Schiessel, University of Leiden) 2017-06-19 12:00: Simulating Fetal Sensory-Motor Experiences and Embodied Neural Learning (Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Professor of Mechano-Informatics, School of Information Science and Technology, and Director of Next Generation AI Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Japan.) 2017-06-19 15:00: Health Economics @ Cambridge seminar: Is it cost-effective to screen women for abdominal aortic aneurysm? Results from the Screening Women for AAA (SWAN) project (Dr Mike Sweeting, Cadiovascular Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge) 2017-06-19 15:00: Non-melanoma skin cancers: the tip of the iceberg (Zoe Venables (Public Health England)) 2017-06-19 15:00: Seeing is Believing: A state-based formalization of database isolation (Natacha Crooks (University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University)) 2017-06-19 19:30: Mutational processes in the human genome (Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. ) 2017-06-20 14:30: “Joint variational inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes” (Hélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences) 2017-06-21 14:00: Biological Systems as Communication Networks (Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California) 2017-06-22 14:00: Agent-Based Simulation of Maritime Customs Processes (Neil YORKE-SMITH, The Olayan School of Business American University of Beirut) 2017-06-22 16:00: Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspective (Professor John Montgomery (University of Auckland)) 2017-06-22 18:30: Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour. 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(Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2017-08-10 14:00: Implementation of Distributed Prognostics on DIAL machines using Deep Neural Networks (Kshitij Bakliwal and Maharshi Dhada (IIT Indore)) 2017-08-14 16:00: Coding and non-coding cancer mutations (Prof. Dr Núria López-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona) 2017-08-17 15:00: Understanding Urban Events with CrowdSourced Data (Kasthuri Jayarajah (Singapore Management University)) 2017-08-23 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-08-24 13:00: Coin Betting for Backprop without Learning Rates and More (Francesco Orabona, Stony Brook University) 2017-08-31 11:00: Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations (Naoya Inoue (Tohoku University, Japan)) 2017-09-01 11:00: Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly (Andreas Rossberg (Google)) 2017-09-01 16:30: Affective computing for assessing treatments in psychiatry (Justin Dauwels ) 2017-09-07 15:00: PTPmesh: Data Center Network Latency Measurements Using PTP (Diana Popescu (Computer Lab)) 2017-09-08 11:00: What is the Difference between Emulation and Virtualization? (Christoph Kirsch (University of Salzburg)) 2017-09-08 11:00: Manifest Sharing with Session Types (Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University) 2017-09-08 11:00: Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation (Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) ) 2017-09-08 11:00: Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image Inpainting (Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) ) 2017-09-08 11:00: Deep learning for autonomous driving (Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) ) 2017-09-12 11:00: The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness (Dr Matt Kusner) 2017-09-12 14:30: Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t-distributions for Unsupervised Clustering of Cell Populations from Flow-Cytometry Data (Dr Boris Hejblum, University of Bordeaux) 2017-09-14 11:00: Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices (Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton) 2017-09-14 14:30: A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samples (Daniel Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology) 2017-09-14 15:00: GAON: General-purpose Application Offload to Near-Network Processors (Mark Silberstein (Technion)) 2017-09-15 11:00: Enzian: A Research Computer for Rack-Scale and Datacenter Computing (Timothy Roscoe (ETH)) 2017-09-19 14:00: Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data (Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)) 2017-09-20 15:00: Market Socialism and Community Rating in Health Insurance (Peter Zweifel - Professor Emeritus, University of Zurich) 2017-09-20 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-09-21 14:30: Network Time Series (Prof Guy Nason, University of Bristol) 2017-09-22 12:00: Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language (Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki) 2017-09-25 16:00: To be confirmed (Prof. Tomas Marques Bonet) 2017-09-26 13:00: Probabilistic and Deep Models for 3D Reconstruction (Andreas Geiger, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) 2017-09-26 15:00: A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care (Dr Cheng Zhang) 2017-09-27 17:30: Open Evening for Women in Engineering (Chris Bishop) 2017-09-28 15:00: DataFlow SuperComputing for BigData (Veljko Milutinovic) 2017-09-28 15:00: Patients as Partners in Cancer Research (Richard Stephens (NCRI)) 2017-09-29 14:00: Attasi ND systems, polynomial system solving and algebraic optimization (Bernard Hanzon (University College Cork)) 2017-10-03 11:00: Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents (Aleksi Vesanto (University of Turku)) 2017-10-03 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL)) 2017-10-03 15:30: Stratification of treatment by disease severity measures – an application to treatment for sleep apnoea (Claire Simons, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2017-10-03 16:00: Genome-wide epistasis in bacteria, new statistical tools and fresh biological insight (Prof Jukka Corander, University of Oslo) 2017-10-04 16:00: CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization (Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond)) 2017-10-04 17:00: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-10-05 11:00: The Rise of Augmented Intelligence in Edge Networks (Chenren Xu (Peking University)) 2017-10-05 14:00: Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function (Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford ) 2017-10-05 14:00: Smooth Operators Enhance Robustness (Keith Glover, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-05 14:30: Extended multivariate generalised linear and non-linear mixed effect models (Dr Michael Crowther, University of Leicester) 2017-10-06 12:00: Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation (Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh) 2017-10-06 14:00: Cracking of thin films (Professor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan) 2017-10-06 14:30: Applying deep convolutional neural networks to medical imaging data (Michael Craig, Clinical neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-06 16:00: Insect flight: from Newton's to Neurons (Jane Wang (Cornell University)) 2017-10-06 16:00: Using DNA to Program Nanostructure Assembly and Molecular Machinery (Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory.) 2017-10-09 13:05: How Machine Learning and Auction Theory Power Facebook Advertising (Ovidiu Popa, Facebook) 2017-10-09 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task" (Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas) 2017-10-09 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life (Professor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory ) 2017-10-10 13:00: Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch (Simon Hengchen (Université libre de Bruxelles)) 2017-10-10 19:00: Stories about life (Dr Tim Weil) 2017-10-11 10:00: Bloomberg Engineering: Terminal Showcase & Cup Cake Challenge (Bloomberg engineers) 2017-10-11 14:00: Personal Genomics (Professor Julian Gough, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2017-10-12 11:00: Internal LTL Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-10-12 14:00: Frequency domain tools for the analysis of Lur'e feedback dominant systems (Felix Miranda-Villatoro, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-12 16:00: Foster Talks: Professor Bill Harris "Promises of a polychrome retina redux: partial fulfilment with spectrum of fates" (Professor Bill Harris, PDN, Cambridge University) 2017-10-13 11:00: Image Reconstruction in Biomedical Imaging: Introduction and overview part 1 (Martin Burger, Muenster University) 2017-10-13 12:00: Neural Models for Information Retrieval (Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2017-10-13 13:05: Break into a Hacker’s Mind (Morgan Stanley) 2017-10-13 13:15: Cell polarity and local condensation of biomolecular condensates (Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany)) 2017-10-13 14:00: Transfer Learning for NLP (Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre) 2017-10-13 14:00: Bio- and Micromechanics group – An Introduction (Prof Norman Fleck and Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED) 2017-10-13 14:00: Image Reconstruction in Biomedical Imaging: Introduction and overview part 2 (Martin Burger, Muenster University) 2017-10-13 16:00: A contemporary chronicle of ocean wave / sea ice interaction research: context, models, delusions and impacts (Vernon Squire (University of Otago)) 2017-10-16 11:00: Image Reconstruction in Biomedical Imaging: Variational regularization methods (Martin Burger, Muenster University) 2017-10-16 13:05: GRAKN.AI: The hyper-relational database for knowledge-oriented systems (Haikal Pribadi, Founder and CEO of GRAKN.AI) 2017-10-16 14:00: Image Reconstruction in Biomedical Imaging: Dynamic and spectral imaging (Martin Burger, Muenster University) 2017-10-16 15:00: The Spanish Pension System, Disability Pensions and Vulnerability (Patricia Peinado - Assistant Professor, University of the Basque Country) 2017-10-16 19:30: The DNA Revolution Has Arrived in the Behavioural Sciences (Prof. Robert Plomin, King's College, London) 2017-10-17 11:00: Spike timing in motor control (Ilya Nemenman (Emory University)) 2017-10-17 13:00: What every researcher should know about software development (Chris Richardson, BP Institute) 2017-10-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL)) 2017-10-18 13:05: Quicker Sorting (Dietmar Kuhl, Bloomberg) 2017-10-18 14:00: Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again) (Andreas Bender, PhD, Department of Chemistry) 2017-10-18 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-10-19 11:00: Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning (Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen) 2017-10-19 11:00: Image Reconstruction in Biomedical Imaging: Motion correction in dynamic imaging (Martin Burger, Muenster University) 2017-10-19 11:00: Internal LTL Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-10-19 12:00: Image Reconstruction in Biomedical Imaging: Multimodality imaging (Martin Burger, Muenster University) 2017-10-19 13:30: Infer.NET (John F. Bronskill) 2017-10-19 14:00: Formation and disease relevance of axonal endoplasmic reticulum, a "neuron within a neuron”. (Dr Cahir O’Kane, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-19 14:00: Are right-half plane zeros necessary for inverse response? It depends… (Jan Maciejowski (University of Cambridge)) 2017-10-19 15:00: Secure Multi-Party Linear Regression on High-Dimensional Data (Borja Balle (Amazon)) 2017-10-20 12:00: Towards More Robust and Interpretable Models for Structured Prediction and Language Generation (Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind) 2017-10-20 13:15: Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates (Andrew Gillis, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-20 14:00: Properties of direct-spun carbon nanotubes mat and their composites ( Dr Wei Tan and Joe Stallard, CUED ) 2017-10-20 16:00: A self-sustaining process theory consonant with the singular nature of turbulent wall flows (Greg Chini (University of New Hampshire)) 2017-10-23 16:00: Improving Openness and Reproducibility of Scientific Research (Dr Timothy Errington) 2017-10-23 18:00: On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction (Professor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering) 2017-10-24 14:00: Introduction and goals (Damon Wischik (CL)) 2017-10-24 14:00: Smart Fridges, Food Waste and the Connected Home: Investigating an IoT approach for retailers to help customers improve food inventory management and reduce waste (Chris Barton (University of Cambridge)) 2017-10-25 13:05: Real-time Ocean Simulation and Rendering for Console Game (Alastair Toft and James Callin, Studio Gobo) 2017-10-25 14:00: Data-driven approaches to drug target identification (Dr Alex Gutteridge Director,Computational Biology TSci Computational Biology(UK) GSK) 2017-10-26 10:00: From the olfactory cocktail party to markerless tracking ( Alexander Mathis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University) 2017-10-26 13:30: Cooperative Inverse RL (Robert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso) 2017-10-26 14:00: Somatosensory cortex is essential for adaptive motor control in mice (Mackenzie Mathis, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University) 2017-10-26 14:15: Prize lecture: What do we Think we are Doing? (Alan Blackwell (University of Cambridge)) 2017-10-26 15:00: Data Plane programmability: the next step in Software Defined NetworkingData Plane programmability: the next step in Software Defined Networking (Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata)) 2017-10-27 12:00: Grounded language learning in simulated worlds (Felix Hill, DeepMind) 2017-10-27 13:15: Building a young brain on Old shoulders: A story on the most primitive ventricular brain (Elia Benito-Gutiérrez, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-27 14:00: Elastic instabilities in soft solids (Dr John Biggins, CUED) 2017-10-27 14:00: Tensors, Tumours and Vitreous Humours - the Secret Mathematical Life of a Neuro-oncologist (Rajesh Jena, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-27 16:00: Confined helical swimmers and coupled oscillators: two studies in elastohydrodynamics (Lisa Fauci (Tulane University)) 2017-10-27 16:00: Gaining control of DNA-based nanodevices (Prof. Francesco Ricci, Chemistry Department, University of Rome, Tor Vergata) 2017-10-27 19:00: Science and the world (Dr Bruce Alberts) 2017-10-30 13:05: SpatialOS: a distributed operating system for building large simulated worlds (Matt Lewis, Improbable) 2017-10-30 16:00: Mutational heterogeneity in promoter regions in melanoma (A/Prof. Dr Erik Larsson Lekholm, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden ) 2017-10-30 16:30: TODAY: Adrian Seminar - "Functional heterogeneity of astrocytes in the mammalian CNS" - David Rowitch (David Rowitch, University of Cambridge) 2017-10-30 19:00: Of elephants and men (Caitlin Black and Derek Murphy) 2017-10-30 19:30: The Scientific Challenges of Fusion Power (Prof. Steven Cowley, Corpus Christi College, Oxford) 2017-10-31 12:00: Multilayered dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics (Mihai Duduta - Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) 2017-10-31 12:00: Multilayered dielectric elastomer actuators for soft robotics (Mihai Duduta - Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences) 2017-10-31 14:00: Reading group: Underpinning techniques of most widely used DNN architectures (Nicolai Baldin (Statslab) ) 2017-10-31 14:30: Individual dynamic predictions using landmarking and joint modelling: validation of estimators and robustness assessment (Dr Loic Ferrer, ISPED, Bordeaux) 2017-10-31 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alberto Bernacchia (CBL)) 2017-10-31 19:00: PhD Information Evening (Various) 2017-11-01 11:00: Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-making (Joshua Kroll) 2017-11-01 14:00: Randomised dimensionality reduction for persistent homology (Martin Lotz - University of Manchester) 2017-11-01 14:00: Evolution while you wait: population genetic modelling of rapid evolutionary processes (Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge)) 2017-11-01 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-11-02 11:00: Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions (Ryohei Sasano (Nagoya University)) 2017-11-02 13:30: Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting Recognition (Juan Murillo Fuentes) 2017-11-02 14:00: The evolution of meiosis and meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis arenosa. 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Gough) 2017-11-13 13:05: Safe at any speed (Sebastian Funk, Jane Street) 2017-11-13 14:00: Rethinking the Quantified Self to make personal data engaging and useful (Steve Whittaker, University of California Santa Cruz) 2017-11-13 14:30: How much to gain: Controlling space and time via gain modulation in cortical networks (Jake Stroud (Tim Vogels Lab. University of Oxford)) 2017-11-13 19:30: Will the Antarctic Go Green Again? Lessons from its Fossil History (Prof. Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey) 2017-11-14 14:00: Reading group: Sequence modeling with recurrent and recursive nets (Johannes Bausch (DAMTP) / Jack Kamm (Genetics) and Sebastian Lunz (CCA) / Oliver Leicht (DAMTP)) 2017-11-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mahdieh Sadabadi (CBL)) 2017-11-15 11:00: Let’s speed up the Internet, fast! 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Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 1 (Martin Holler, University of Graz) 2017-11-16 14:15: Accommodation and Comfort in Head-Mounted Displays (George-Alex Koulieris) 2017-11-16 19:00: A map in the mind (Dr Julija Krupic) 2017-11-17 11:00: Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization (Dr Frank Hutter) 2017-11-17 12:00: Internal seminar - new PhD students (New NLIP PhDs) 2017-11-17 13:15: Decoding the Notch signal (Sarah Bray, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2017-11-17 14:00: Coupled phenomena: theory and applications (Dr Václav Klika, Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University Prague) 2017-11-17 16:00: An intracellular organization of extracellular information (Prof. Peter Swain, University of Edinburgh ) 2017-11-20 15:00: HE@Cam Seminar: Christian Léonard - Social Preferences as an Alternative to Cost-Utility Analysis (Professor Christian Léonard, General Director of the Belgian Healthcare Knowledge Centre (KCE)) 2017-11-20 18:00: Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology) 2017-11-21 12:30: British Science Association Media Fellowship - the inside scoop on how science gets reported at The Guardian (Dr James Rudd, Dept Medicine, Cambridge) 2017-11-21 13:30: The Use of Deep Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems (Steve Young (University of Cambridge)) 2017-11-21 14:00: Total Generalised Variation regularisaton for linear inverse problems. Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 2 (Martin Holler, University of Graz) 2017-11-21 14:00: Neural networks in NLP (Kris Cao (Computer Science / NLP)) 2017-11-21 14:30: Continuous inference for aggregated point process data (Dr Ben Taylor, University of Lancaster) 2017-11-21 14:30: Individualised Language in the Big Data Era (Paula Buttery (University of Cambridge)) 2017-11-21 15:00: Play it on the Edge - the Fun, the Risks, and the Lessons (Aaron Yi Ding (TUM)) 2017-11-21 15:00: Poster slam (Various) 2017-11-21 15:30: Poster session (Various) 2017-11-21 16:15: Using Social Media to Investigate Linguistic Variation and Change (David Willis (University of Cambridge)) 2017-11-21 16:45: Linguistic Yardsticks: Evaluating Language Technology Using Insights from Linguistic Theory (Laura Rimell (DeepMind)) 2017-11-21 17:15: Powered by Cambridge: Devices, data and interDisciplinarity (Saul Nassé (Cambridge Assessment)) 2017-11-22 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto, Department of Biochemistry) 2017-11-23 11:00: Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling (Kazuya Kawakami (DeepMind)) 2017-11-23 13:30: Learning to Learn (Siddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt) 2017-11-23 14:00: Applications and extensions. Short Course: Higher order regularisation in imaging - Lecture 3 (Martin Holler, University of Graz) 2017-11-23 14:00: Towards Scale-Free Control of large-scale traffic networks (Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, CNRS, Grenoble) 2017-11-23 14:15: Learning from humans: A broad overview of approaches to model preferences, skills and perception (Maria Perez-Ortiz (University of Cambridge)) 2017-11-23 15:00: Geolocated Datasets for Urban Science (Bruno Goncalves) 2017-11-23 16:00: Foster Talk: Professor Wolfram Schultz "How my brain is getting me the best reward" (Professor Wolfram Schultz, PDN, Cambridge) 2017-11-23 19:00: Hunting Monsters (Dr Darren Naish) 2017-11-24 11:00: Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent (Yutian Chen, DeepMind) 2017-11-24 12:00: Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking (Dr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield) 2017-11-24 13:15: Mechanisms of filopodia regulation (Jenny Gallop, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute) 2017-11-24 14:00: Using Simulation for Additive Manufacturing Designing and Process Simulation (Dr Claus Pedersen, Dassault Systèmes Deutschland) 2017-11-24 16:00: iPhones and Dysons: using fluid dynamics to tailor technology (Ian Griffiths (University of Oxford)) 2017-11-24 16:00: Mind Under Matter: Controlling Movements of Soft Animals and Robots (Barry Trimmer, Departments of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University.) 2017-11-27 11:00: Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation. (Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto)) 2017-11-27 13:05: JSI - JVM SecDb Integration (Jonathan Perry, Managing Director in Engineering, Goldman Sachs) 2017-11-27 16:00: Inferring the Evolutionary History of Cancers: Statistical Methods and Applications (Dr Andrew Roth, Ludwig Cancer Research, University of Oxford ) 2017-11-27 16:30: Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience - ANNUAL LECTURE Rachel Wilson "Neural correlates of orienting behaviors and latent action biases" (Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School) 2017-11-27 18:00: Energy and matter at the origin of life (Professor Nick Lane) 2017-11-27 19:30: How Democracy Ends: Thinking the Unthinkable (Prof. David Runciman, University of Cambridge) 2017-11-28 14:00: Reading group: Image recognition with convolutional and residual nets (Fergal Cotter (Eng)) 2017-11-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (CBL)) 2017-11-29 12:00: How to work with other geographically dispersed people (David Rees-Jones) 2017-11-29 14:00: Bayesian Probabilistic Numerical Methods (Chris Oates - Newcastle Universtity) 2017-11-29 14:00: Deciphering the origins of gene expression bursts at dawn, using computer-aided experimental design (Dr Daphne Ezer, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2017-11-29 15:30: HE@Cam Seminar: Will Dunlop - Benefits, Challenges and Potential Strategies of Open Source Health Economic Models (Will Dunlop - Mundipharma International Limited) 2017-11-30 11:00: Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas (David Barber (University College London)) 2017-11-30 13:30: Hardware Efficient Machine Learning (Robert Peharz; Marton Havasi) 2017-11-30 14:00: Synthesising Provably Correct Controllers for Manufacturing (Lavindra de Silva (University of Nottingham)) 2017-11-30 14:15: Part-based Tracking with Cascaded Regression of Neighbours (Xiaomeng Wang (University of Cambridge)) 2017-11-30 18:00: Finding medicine where you least expect it (Professor Christina Smolke) 2017-12-01 11:00: AI for Inclusive Finance (Alan Qi and Le Song) 2017-12-01 14:00: Semper Citius: Towards Dynamic Photoacoustic Imaging (Marta Betcke, UCL) 2017-12-01 14:00: Adsorption-induced stresses and variations of permeability in coal seams during CO2 storage or CH4 production (Dr Matthieu Vandamme, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech) 2017-12-01 16:00: Swimming in a turbulent world (Mimi Koehl (University of California, Berkeley)) 2017-12-04 16:00: Enhancers as regulatory hubs in mammalian embryogenesis and human congenital disease (Dr Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, CMMC - Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Germany) 2017-12-05 14:00: Evaluating Update- and Reconciliation Policies for Master/Slave Replicas: A Simulation Model (Tom Haegemans (KU Leuven)) 2017-12-05 14:00: Hack: Deep dreaming of a white Christmas (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-12-06 16:30: Statistics Clinic Christmas Vacation 2017 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-12-07 16:00: Foster Talk: "Self-assembly of the mammalian embryo in vitro" Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz (Professor Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, PDN Cambridge) 2017-12-08 14:00: Snaking, dripping, and fluttering of elastic rods (Professor Davide Bigoni,Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering University of Trento, Italy) 2017-12-12 11:00: Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks (Andrew Wilson, Cornell University) 2017-12-12 11:00: Modeling Collective Cell Migration: Clusters and Monolayers (Professor Nir Gov Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel) 2017-12-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dhruva Raman (Control Group)) 2017-12-13 11:00: Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks (Professor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University) 2017-12-13 13:30: Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priors (Manfred Opper, TU Berlin) 2017-12-14 13:30: NIPS 2017 Highlights (Speaker to be confirmed) 2017-12-14 14:15: Automated Mental Stress Recognition through Mobile Thermal Imaging (Youngjun Cho - UCL Interaction Centre) 2018-01-11 11:00: Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution (Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI)) 2018-01-11 13:30: Machine Learning for Sounds (Akisato Kimura) 2018-01-15 15:00: HE@Cam Seminar: John Buckell - Smokers’ cigarette choices and risk perceptions: Experimental evidence on US adults (John Buckell - Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University) 2018-01-16 13:00: Optimal algorithms for smooth and strongly convex distributed optimization in networks (Francis Bach, INRIA) 2018-01-16 13:00: Dissecting Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling Networks by Quantitative Phosphoproteomics (Prof. Jesper V. Olsen, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (CPR), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 2018-01-17 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-01-18 11:00: Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics (Stephen McGregor (TCIDA, Goldsmiths)) 2018-01-18 13:00: Tackling Data Science using High Performance Computing: opportunities and trends (Filippo Spiga - Cambridge University Computing Service) 2018-01-18 16:00: Foster Talk - Dr Rachel Tribe "How to expect the unexpected. Prediction and prevention of preterm birth" Physiology Lecture Theatre (Dr Rachel Tribe,Kings College London) 2018-01-19 16:00: Making sense of sewage: a multi-omics approach (Dr James Chong, University of York) 2018-01-19 16:00: Coffee stains, cells receptors, and time crystals: lessons from the old literature (Ray Goldstein (DAMTP)) 2018-01-19 17:30: Black and British Migration (Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster) 2018-01-22 13:05: Writing Low Latency Code (Maciej Gajewski, Optiver) 2018-01-22 16:30: TODAY! Adrian Seminar - "Plasticity of the adult visual cortex in human" - Concetta Morrane, University of Pisa, Italy (Concetta Morrone, University of Pisa) 2018-01-22 19:00: Herbal Science (Dr Merlin Wilcox) 2018-01-22 19:30: Building World Class Life Science Businesses – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Dr. Jonathan Milner, Deputy Chairman, Abcam plc) 2018-01-23 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL)) 2018-01-24 13:00: Docker Containers for Research (Chris Richardson (BPI)) 2018-01-24 14:00: Multiple mouse reference genomes defines subspecies specific haplotypes and novel coding sequences (Dr Thomas Keane, Sanger Institute) 2018-01-25 11:00: Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines (Petar Milin (Sheffield)) 2018-01-25 13:00: From Metrics to Models - Data Science at a Fashion Tech Startup (Erika Nitsch and Jim Downing - Metail) 2018-01-25 13:30: Minimum Description Length (Carl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus) 2018-01-25 14:00: DNA methyltransferase(s), transposons and spermatogenesis (Dr Déborah Bourc'his, Institut Curie, Paris ) 2018-01-25 14:00: Object Oriented Convex Optimization with CVXPY (Stephen Boyd and Steven Diamond, Stanford University) 2018-01-25 14:00: Neural Computing Methods for Smart Manufacturing (Guodong WANG (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria)) 2018-01-25 15:00: Analysis of Spatio-temporal Representations for Robust Footstep Recognition with Deep Residual Neural Networks (Omar Costilla - Reyes (University of Manchester)) 2018-01-25 17:00: A Sleepy Start (Professor Russell Foster ) 2018-01-26 12:00: Convex Optimization (Stephen P. Boyd, Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University) 2018-01-26 14:00: Intraoperative molecular imaging (David Tuch, Lightpoint Medical) 2018-01-26 14:00: The world is not flat: 3D cell biology and 3D devices ( Dr Róisín M. Owens, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge) 2018-01-26 16:00: Reprogramming the Genetic Code (Prof. Jason Chin, MRC LBM and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2018-01-26 16:00: Exploring transition and turbulence in shear flows via nonlinear optimization (Stefania Cherubini (Politecnico di Bari)) 2018-01-26 17:30: Immigration and Freedom (Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE) 2018-01-29 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - A remarkable combination of skills in hunting archerfish (Stefan Schuster, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena) 2018-01-29 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive (Professor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics ) 2018-01-30 14:00: Universal Adversarial Perturbations: Fooling Deep Networks with a Single Image (Alhussein Fawzi; UCLA, DeepMind) 2018-01-31 14:00: Bregman distances in frequentist inverse problems (Tapio Helin, University of Helsinki) 2018-01-31 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2018 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-02-01 13:00: Challenges of Big Data in Science (Ian Bird - CERN) 2018-02-01 13:30: Deep Generative Models (Jonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews) 2018-02-01 14:00: Environmental stress, cryptic variation and innovation in the simplest molecular systems (Professor Andreas Wagner, Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich) 2018-02-01 14:00: Neuromechanical models of locomotion: from biology to robotics (Auke Ijspeert, Biorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 2018-02-01 16:00: Foster Talk - "Hepatic organoids for the study of liver regeneration and disease" (Meritxell Huch, The Gurdon Institute) 2018-02-01 19:00: Lessons from a plant virus (Professor George Lomonossoff) 2018-02-02 13:15: Cell polarity remodelling by the RASSF protein family (Nic Tapon, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2018-02-02 14:00: Electrochemical and mechanical modeling of lithium-ion batteries (Dr Ying Zhao, CUED) 2018-02-02 14:30: Molecular Deformation of Polycarbonate: from Atomistic to Continuum Characterization ( Dr Lili Zhang, CUED ) 2018-02-02 16:00: Effects of microscale features on the macroscale dynamics of swimming suspensions (Eric Keaveny (Imperial College London)) 2018-02-02 17:30: Art and Migration (Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham) 2018-02-03 16:00: AI – More than just computers (Professor Lawrence Hunter) 2018-02-05 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Synaptic plasticity and memory" (Tim Bliss, University College London) 2018-02-05 19:30: Enhancing the Brain and Wellbeing in Health and Disease (Prof. Barbara J. Sahakian, University of Cambridge) 2018-02-06 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Calvin Kao (CBL)) 2018-02-07 13:00: Using Python Packages - and interfacing (Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge)) 2018-02-07 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft (Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering) 2018-02-08 11:00: Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling (Ivan Titov (Edinburgh)) 2018-02-08 13:00: Learn how to become an AI Super-hero in research (Kenji Takeda - Director, Azure for Research, Microsoft Research (@MSFTResearch), Visiting Fellow Alan Turing Institute) 2018-02-08 14:00: Scaling of tissue proportions to body size during vertebrate development (Dr Patrick Mueller, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tübingen, Germany) 2018-02-09 12:00: Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks (Edoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge) 2018-02-09 13:15: Modulating developmental signals allows establishment of cultures of expanded potential stem cells (Liu Pentao, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) 2018-02-09 14:00: Deep supervised level set method: an approach to fully automated segmentation of cardiac MR images in patients with pulmonary hypertension (Jinming Duan, Imperial College) 2018-02-09 14:00: Recent Advances in Solid State Batteries and Beyond Li Technologies - Challenges for Fundamental Science (Prof Clare Grey, Chemistry, Cambridge) 2018-02-09 16:00: From dry to wet granular media (Alban Sauret (CNRS/Saint-Gobain)) 2018-02-09 17:30: Refugees and Migration (Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees) 2018-02-12 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar: "Starting new actions and learning from it" (Rui Costa, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia) 2018-02-12 18:00: Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system (Professor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences) 2018-02-13 14:00: Opportunities and Challenges in Generative Adversarial Networks: Looking beyond the Hype (Sebastian Nowozin. 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(Illumr) 2018-05-04 11:00: Multipartite SLOCC and LOCC transformations (Barbara Kraus, University of Innsbruck) 2018-05-04 12:00: Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning (Andrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge) 2018-05-04 12:00: Quantum conditional mutual information (Omar Fawzi, ENS de Lyon) 2018-05-04 13:15: Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening (Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany) 2018-05-04 14:00: Biological and bio-inspired motility at microscopic scales: locomotion by shape control (Professor Antonio De Simone, SISSA, Trieste, Italy) 2018-05-04 14:00: Imaging the Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (William Jagust, UC Berkeley School of Public Health) 2018-05-04 14:00: Undecidability in Quantum Physics: Hilbert’s Second and Sixth Problems Meet (David Pérez García, Complutense University of Madrid) 2018-05-04 15:30: Landauer's Principle in Repeated Interaction Systems (Yan Pautrat, Paris-Sud University) 2018-05-04 16:00: Linking mechanochemistry with protein folding with single bond resolution (Prof. Sergi Garcia-Manyes, Department of Physics and and Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London ) 2018-05-04 16:00: Model reduction in direct statistical simulation of fluids (Steve Tobias (University of Leeds)) 2018-05-08 17:00: Reconciling Bayesian Regularization And Total Variation Regularization - CCIMI colloquium (Andrew Stuart, Caltech) 2018-05-09 11:00: Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks (Ana Stoica, Columbia University) 2018-05-09 14:00: Spectral rigidity of the round Earth (Joonas Ilmavirta, University of Jyväskylä) 2018-05-09 15:30: Relevance Forcing: More Interpretable Neural Networks through Prior Knowledge ( Christian Etmann (University of Bremen)) 2018-05-09 16:15: Latent Variable Model, Matrix Estimation and Collaborative Filtering (Prof Devavrat Shah - MIT) 2018-05-09 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-05-10 13:00: The cloud in the clinic (Henry Farmery - Cambridge Cancer Genomics) 2018-05-10 14:00: Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer (Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2018-05-10 14:00: Input-to-State Stability for complex dynamics: From global to almost global… and back (David Angeli, Imperial College London) 2018-05-10 14:30: BSU Seminar: “Cox-process representation and inference for stochastic reaction-diffusion processes” (Dr Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh) 2018-05-11 12:00: Emergent Communication through Negotiation (Kris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge) 2018-05-11 13:15: Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila (François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) 2018-05-11 14:00: Correlative Imaging of Electrochemical Devices Over Multiple Time and Length Scales (Dr Paul Shearing, Reader in Chemical Engineering & Materials, UCL) 2018-05-11 16:00: Cell morphogenesis across scales, from molecular processes to cell surface mechanics (Prof. Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.) 2018-05-11 16:00: Large deviation theory applied to climate physics, a new frontier of statistical physics and applied mathematics (Freddy Bouchet (ENS, Lyon)) 2018-05-14 15:00: HE@Cam Seminar: Tray Brown - Building a Discrete Event Simulation to Determine the Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (Tray Brown -Department of Public Health and Primary care) 2018-05-15 14:00: First Year PhD DIAL presentations (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-05-15 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Andrey Stoychev (Control Group)) 2018-05-16 09:00: CCBI Annual Symposium (REGISTRATION REQUIRED) 2018-05-17 13:00: Satavia - Making Aviation Smarter (Darren Gallagher, Dirk Simon, and Lisa Lentati - SATAVIA) 2018-05-17 14:00: Gaussian distributions in symmetric spaces: novel tools for statistical learning with covariance matrices (Salem Said, CNRS, IMS Laboratory, Bordeaux) 2018-05-17 14:15: Psychometric Scaling of TID2013 Dataset (Aliaksei Mikhailiuk (University of Cambridge)) 2018-05-17 15:00: Research Challenges and Solutions for IOT/CPS (John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia)) 2018-05-17 16:00: TODAY Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring (Professor Christine Holt) 2018-05-18 12:00: Design techniques for sparse regression codes (Adam Greig, CUED) 2018-05-18 12:00: The potential of synthetic data for more informative evaluation in Visual Question Answering (Alexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge) 2018-05-18 13:15: Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo (Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York) 2018-05-18 14:00: On the length scale, robustness and manufacturability in topology optimization ( Dr Boyan Stefanov Lazarov, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester) 2018-05-18 16:00: High-frequency self-excited oscillations in flow through elastic-walled tubes (Robert Whittaker (University of East Anglia)) 2018-05-23 11:30: Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect Features (Julius von Kugelgen) 2018-05-24 13:00: Going from Data to Science with the Planck Satellite (Steven Gratton - IoA) 2018-05-25 12:00: NAACL practice talks (Simon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge) 2018-05-25 13:00: Multi-modal Image Processing: Data Models, Algorithms, and Applications (Miguel Rodrigues, UCL ) 2018-05-25 13:15: Hedgehog signalling in immune cells (Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2018-05-25 14:00: Materials and Devices for Interfacing with the Brain (Prof. George Malliaras, CUED) 2018-05-25 14:00: Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond (Thomas Kipf, University of Amsterdam) 2018-05-25 16:00: Double-diffusive fingering at low Prandtl number (Pascale Garaud (University of California, Santa Cruz)) 2018-05-29 14:30: BSU Seminar: "Optimal bootstrapping with dependent data" (Prof Alastair Young, Imperial College London) 2018-05-29 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Adrianna Loback (Control Group)) 2018-05-30 11:00: An overview of protein phase behavior (Prof Neer Asherie, Yeshiva University, New York, USA) 2018-05-30 16:00: A physicist's spin on data science (Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis) 2018-05-30 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-05-31 11:00: Imitation learning for language generation (Gerasimos Lampouras (Sheffield)) 2018-05-31 14:00: Control theory of switches and clocks (Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge) 2018-05-31 15:00: Edge Computing through Distributed Trust and Programmable Privacy (Ioannis Psaras (UCL)) 2018-06-01 12:00: Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs (Alexander Clark, King's College London) 2018-06-01 13:15: Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach (Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2018-06-01 13:30: 2nd-Year Student Talks - NB: 1.30pm prompt start time (Various speakers) 2018-06-01 14:00: Optimisation methods for Bayesian inference: Application to high dimensional inverse problems (Audrey Repetti, Heriot-Watt University) 2018-06-01 14:00: Bioengineering human liver organoids using induced-pluripotent stem cells in 3D hydrogel (Dr Soon Seng Ng, King’s College London) 2018-06-04 14:00: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Convex analysis (Stephen Becker, University of Colorado) 2018-06-04 14:15: Windows Insider Program (Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble, Microsoft Research Redmond) 2018-06-06 13:00: One spiral to rule them all: and in the darkness bind them (Roman Klapauch (UCL)) 2018-06-07 11:00: Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essentially Contested Concepts (Paul Nulty (CRASSH-Cambridge)) 2018-06-07 14:30: BSU Seminar: "Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: challenges and opportunities" (Dr Laurent Gatto, University of Cambridge ) 2018-06-07 19:00: AI in Healthcare: Understanding Superbugs. (Dr Nicole Wheeler, Sanger Institute.) 2018-06-08 12:00: Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated Corpus (Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge) 2018-06-08 14:00: Breathing Solids: from Human Hair to Designer Nanoporous Materials (Dr Alex Neimark, Rutgers, Rutgers University, USA) 2018-06-08 14:00: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Convex optimization problems and optimality (Stephen Becker, University of Colorado) 2018-06-08 16:00: Droplets and vortices, and their complicated relationship (Rama Govindarajan (Tata Institute, Bangalore)) 2018-06-11 14:00: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Modern first-order methods for structured convex problems (Stephen Becker, University of Colorado) 2018-06-11 15:00: HE@Cam seminar: Christian Hill - Patient Access Scheme, Managed Access Agreement and their influence on the approval trends of new medicines, devices and diagnostics (Christian Hill - CEO, MAP Biopharma) 2018-06-12 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Xizi Li (CBL)) 2018-06-12 16:15: Perceptual Display: Apparent Enhancement of Scene Detail and Depth (Karol Myszkowski, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science) 2018-06-13 13:00: Parallel I/O and HDF5 (Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge)) 2018-06-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-06-14 11:00: Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages (Serge Sharoff (Leeds)) 2018-06-14 11:00: Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness (Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)) 2018-06-14 14:30: BSU Seminar: “Biomarker discovery through statistical signal processing and Bayesian modelling on large-scale quantitative proteomics data” (Professor Andrew Dowsey, University of Bristol) 2018-06-14 15:00: Mechanics of Hydrogen diffusion and embrittlement (Professor Norman Fleck, CUED) 2018-06-14 16:00: Foster Talk - "Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity" (Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2018-06-15 14:00: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Additional large-scale algorithms (Stephen Becker, University of Colorado) 2018-06-15 14:00: Methods to model and segment novel metabolic imaging in humans (Ferdia Gallagher, Medical School) 2018-06-15 16:00: Yield stress fluids at an interface: coating and slipping (Elise Lorenceau (University of Grenoble)) 2018-06-18 11:00: Herding Nulls – and other C# stories from the future (Mads Torgersen, Microsoft Research Redmond) 2018-06-19 13:00: DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte-Carlo Estimator (Jakob Foerster, University of Oxford) 2018-06-20 13:00: Quantum Espresso: A high-performance GPU simulation code (Filippo Spiga) 2018-06-20 14:15: Bayesian Deep Learning to Predict Air Pollution & Personalized Air Pollution Monitoring and Health Management (Victor O.K. Li & Jacqueline CK Lam, The University of Hong Kong) 2018-06-21 11:00: Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond (Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam)) 2018-06-21 14:00: Monitoring and Fault-tolerant Control for Large-Scale Interconnected Systems (Francesca Boem, University College London) 2018-06-25 14:30: 3D bioprinting for in vitro tissue engineering (Prof Wei Sun, University of Nottingham) 2018-06-26 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang (CBL)) 2018-06-28 15:00: Hardware-conscious data processing systems (Holger Pirk (Imperial College London)) 2018-07-04 11:00: Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models (George Tucker, Google Brain) 2018-07-06 14:00: Industry 4.0 – from technology into a new era of production (Jumyung Um) 2018-07-11 15:00: Combating Student Mental Illness with Technology—from the Imagine Cup UK Finals (Michaela Brady and Shu Ishida, Oxford University) 2018-07-12 11:00: Building modern dataflow systems (Frank McSherry (ETH Zürich)) 2018-07-12 15:00: New projects in human-data interaction (Matthew Chalmers (University of Glasgow)) 2018-07-16 11:00: Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models (Emtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo) 2018-07-17 13:00: Interpretability in Machine Learning: What it means, How we're getting there (Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University) 2018-07-17 14:30: BSU Seminar: "Using Gaussian processes to model branching dynamics from single-cell data" (provisional) (Prof. Magnus Rattray, University of Manchester) 2018-07-17 15:00: Enabling the Internet of Things - IoT Penetrate the Base of Pyramid in Sub-Saharan Africa (Taita Ngetich (Illuminum Greenhouses, Kenya)) 2018-07-17 15:00: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto)) 2018-07-17 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (CBL)) 2018-07-18 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-07-24 12:00: Personal Data Stores: A new approach to control online privacy (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-07-30 14:15: Parallel Reality Displays (Paul Dietz) 2018-08-01 14:15: New CIE colorimetry for HDR and WCG imaging applications ( Ronnier Luo, Zhejiang University) 2018-08-10 14:00: How to use particle filtering methods to solve numerical optimization problems ? 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Johannes Castner, Uni. of Columbia (Johannes Castner, Uni. of Columbia) 2018-09-13 15:00: Dynamics of HIV Intra-Patient Drug Resistance Evolution through Space and Time (Dr Alison Feder from University of California, Berkeley, USA ) 2018-09-19 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-09-21 13:00: Gone fishing. Machine-learning guided discovery from public data. (Professor Casey Greene from the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania ) 2018-10-01 19:30: Can we slow ageing? Lessons from an EPIC cohort (Prof. Kay-Tee Khaw, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-02 15:30: BSU Seminar: “Statistical learning for drug screening in personalized cancer therapy” (Manuela Zucknick, University of Oslo) 2018-10-02 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alberto Bernacchia (CBL)) 2018-10-03 13:05: Dev-Ops. what does it really mean? (Cliff McCollum (Software Development Manager), Amazon) 2018-10-05 12:00: Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking (Andreas Vlachos, NLIP, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-05 14:00: Welcome Division C’s Bio- and Micromechanics seminar (Prof Michael Sutcliffe) 2018-10-05 16:00: The acoustics of wind instruments: trombones, trumpets and conch shells (Pablo Rendon UNAM, Mexico) 2018-10-08 13:00: Exploring the role of ion channels in cancer using executable modelling (Dr Benjamin Hall from MRC Cancer Unit in Cambridge ) 2018-10-08 13:05: Hashing (Dietmar Kuhl, Bloomberg) 2018-10-08 15:00: Fastest Convergence for Reinforcement Learning (Prof. Sean Meyn, University of Florida) 2018-10-08 16:30: TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Neural motion" (Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) 2018-10-08 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story (Professor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences ) 2018-10-09 13:00: Introduction to Finite Element Methods using Jupyter Notebooks (Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge)) 2018-10-09 13:15: Facebook – Crush Your Coding Workshop (Facebook) 2018-10-10 13:05: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (Ed Salkeld, TPP) 2018-10-10 14:00: Exploiting stochastic fluctuations to understand cellular processes and infer biochemical kinetics (Dr Andreas Hilfinger (University of Toronto)) 2018-10-11 11:00: Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning Algorithms (Mihaela van der Schaar ) 2018-10-11 11:00: LION-LBD: Literature-Based Discovery for Cancer Biology (Simon Baker, LTL) 2018-10-11 14:00: How to make or break an axon: the roles and regulation of neuronal microtubules (Professor Andreas Prokop from Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester ) 2018-10-11 15:00: Using large-scale simulation for the national assessment of Fibre-To-The-Premises and 5G deployment (Edward Oughton (Oxford)) 2018-10-11 16:00: FOSTER TALK - Decoding the visual cortex (Dr Nathalie Rochefort, University of Edinburgh) 2018-10-12 10:00: Bloomberg Lab Hangout & Cup Cake Challenge (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-10-12 12:00: Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and Transfer (Pranava Madhyastha, Imperial College London) 2018-10-12 13:05: HackerRank workshop (Alistair McMaster and Jing Wu, Goldman Sachs) 2018-10-12 13:15: Mechanisms controlling homeostasis in mammalian epidermis (Fiona Watt, Centre for Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, King's College London) 2018-10-12 14:00: Elasticity as the basis of allosteric interactions in DNA and membranes (Prof Prashant K Purohit, University of Pennsylvania) 2018-10-12 16:00: Fibre-reinforced fluids: from plant cells to extracellular matrix (Rosemary Dyson University of Birmingham) 2018-10-15 13:05: All Things Data (Joris Peeters, GSA Capital) 2018-10-15 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Probing computations in neural circuits using single-neuron perturbations" (Chris Harvey, Harvard Medical School) 2018-10-15 18:15: Nuclear receptors and atherosclerosis (Dr Ines Pineda Torra, UCL) 2018-10-15 19:30: Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine (Dr. Hannah Fry, UCL) 2018-10-16 13:00: High-performance Artificial Intelligence. Scaling DL on Supercomputers. (Matt Archer, UIS) 2018-10-16 15:00: JP Morgan Technology Showcase (JP Morgan technologists) 2018-10-16 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL)) 2018-10-17 13:05: 5G & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - THE PERFECT MATCH ? (Dr Cyril Valadon, MediaTek) 2018-10-17 14:00: Data-driven approaches to drug target identification (Dr Alex Gutteridge (GSK)) 2018-10-17 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-10-17 18:00: The fight against malaria using proteasomes (Dr Paula da Fonseca, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2018-10-18 11:00: Practical Approaches to Conversational AI (Pei-Hao (Eddy) Su, PolyAI) 2018-10-18 13:00: Pattern Recognition in Particle Physics (Stefano Vergani) 2018-10-18 14:00: The Genetic Basis of Clinal Adaptation (Professor Thomas Flatt from Department of Biology, University of Fribourg ) 2018-10-18 14:00: Optimal control of ballistic movements in a thalamo-cortical circuit model (Guillaume Hennequin, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-18 17:00: Flux: Elegant Machine Learning with Julia (Mike Innes, Julia Computing, Inc.) 2018-10-19 12:00: Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language (Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind) 2018-10-19 13:15: Using Drosophila to understand mitochondrial biology and mechanisms of neurodegeneration (Alex Whitworth, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge) 2018-10-19 14:00: On accounting for quasi-brittle fiber damage in computational homogenization of UD-composites (Dr Konstantinos Poulios, Technical University of Denmark) 2018-10-19 16:00: Towards a finite-time singularity of the Navier-Stokes equations (Keith Moffatt DAMTP) 2018-10-22 13:05: Systemic Design (or Building Toys) in Games (George Prosser and James Callin, Studio Gobo) 2018-10-22 16:00: Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching) 2018-10-22 16:30: Adrian Seminar Series - ANNUAL LECTURE - "Transforming thought into action using bidirectional brain-machine interfaces (Richard Andersen, California Institute of Technology) 2018-10-22 18:00: Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics (Dr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences) 2018-10-22 18:00: Synthetic biology: host-construct interactions (Dr Francesca Ceroni, Imperial College, London) 2018-10-23 13:15: How to Build an Exchange (Gabor Szarka, JaneStreet) 2018-10-24 14:00: Mapping the sub-cellular proteome (Dr Laurent Gatto (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics)) 2018-10-24 16:00: Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching) 2018-10-24 17:30: Elimination of Cervical Cancer by 2050: reality or wishful thinking (Professor Margaret Stanley OBE) 2018-10-25 11:00: Representation Learning and Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning in Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language (Pasquale Minervini, University College London) 2018-10-25 14:00: Hacking the gene expression machinery for genome defense (Dr Julius Brennecke from IMBA, Vienna BioCenter ) 2018-10-25 15:00: Privacy Trading in the Apps and IoT Age: Markets and Computation (Ranjan Pal (USC)) 2018-10-25 16:00: Tipping the balance and regulatory processes during sex determination. (Robin Lovell-Badge, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2018-10-26 12:00: Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers (Kostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-26 13:05: Preparing for a life that’s not just code (Samantha Strauss and Grace Rowley, RealVNC) 2018-10-26 13:15: Constructing the mammalian embryo in vitro: from single stem cells to gastrulation (Berna Sozen, Dept. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2018-10-26 14:00: Tailoring two-dimensional materials for wearable electronics and bio-engineering applications (Dr Felice Torrisi, Cambridge Graphene Centre) 2018-10-26 16:00: Interaction of turbulent flow with complex roughness topographies (Angela Busse U. Glasgow) 2018-10-26 16:00: Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium (Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching) 2018-10-29 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Probing the molecular basis of extreme physiology using African mole-rats" (Gary Lewin, Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin) 2018-10-29 19:30: Energy and matter at the origin of life – and why it matters (Prof. Nick Lane, UCL) 2018-10-30 13:15: Creating a Real Time data & ML pipeline for Smart Cities, Mobility & Infrastructure (Pankaj Daga, Alchera Technologies) 2018-10-30 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Adriana Perez-Rotondo (Control group)) 2018-10-31 13:05: Transforming Retail with Machine Learning (Martin Gee, Principal Head of Software Engineering, Argos) 2018-10-31 14:00: Estimation of Low-Rank Matrices via Approximate Message Passing (Dr Ramji Venkataramanan) 2018-10-31 14:00: Personal Genomics (Dr Julian Gough (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)) 2018-10-31 14:00: Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference (Robert Pinsler, Calvin Kao) 2018-10-31 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-11-01 11:00: On KL divergence and beyond (Yingzhen Li, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2018-11-01 13:00: Feeding 10 million people using Machine Learning (Olmo Martinez - Tesco supply chain) 2018-11-01 14:00: Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development (Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany) 2018-11-02 13:05: Goldman Sachs: Banking with Bots – Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (Niccolo Lamanna, Goldman Sachs) 2018-11-02 13:15: Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation (Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-02 14:00: 7 tesla magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (Prof Chris Rodgers, Neuroscience, Cambridge) 2018-11-02 16:00: Buoyancy-driven flows and mixing: an energetics perspective (Graham Hughes Imperial College) 2018-11-05 13:05: Declarative Software Design in Python (Elmer Landaverde, Bloomberg Team Leader of Engineering Core Workflows ) 2018-11-05 15:00: HE@Cam: Peter Morten - New therapies, new methods: the use of novel survival analysis methods for I-O therapies (Peter Morten - Costello Medical) 2018-11-05 18:00: Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set (Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry ) 2018-11-06 13:00: Using Revision Control - an introduction (Mark Williamson ( Department of Chemistry)) 2018-11-07 13:05: The King ecosystem beyond games; a deep dive into solutions that scale (Richard Palmer, Principal Engineer, King) 2018-11-07 14:00: Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger (Dr Katherine Lawler (MRC Institute of Metabolic Science)) 2018-11-07 14:00: Adaptive and robust nonparametric Bayesian contraction rates for discretely observed compound Poisson processes (Dr Alberto J. Coca) 2018-11-07 14:00: Defending Against Adversarial Attacks (Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge)) 2018-11-07 18:00: Cryo-EM heats up (Dr Doryen Bubeck, Imperial College, London) 2018-11-08 11:00: Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes (Ivan Vulić, LTL, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-08 13:00: Time Series Analytics for Big Data (James Corcoran - Kx) 2018-11-08 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Unsupervised substructure discovery in mass spectrometry metabolomics data” (Dr Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow) 2018-11-08 15:00: The Elusive Internet Flatening: 10 Years of IXP Growth (Ignacio Castro (Queen Mary)) 2018-11-08 16:00: Neuronal connectivity and functional output in cerebral organoids. (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB) 2018-11-08 19:00: Spectacular Chemistry of Coal (Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London) 2018-11-09 12:00: Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale (Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon) 2018-11-09 13:05: How to Break the Internet (Simon Chatterjee, Ensoft Ltd ) 2018-11-09 13:15: Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division (Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2018-11-09 14:00: Anomalous dynamics of snap-through instabilities ( Dr Michael Gomez, DAMPT, Cambridge) 2018-11-09 16:00: The suppression of marine ice sheet instability (Sam Pegler U. Leeds) 2018-11-12 13:00: Cancer Genome Evolution and Immune Escape (Dr Nicholas McGranahan from Francis Crick Institute in London) 2018-11-12 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "The neuromodulatory connectome: wired and wireless networks". (William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2018-11-12 19:30: Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans? (Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University) 2018-11-13 13:00: Simple steps to improve reproducibility of your computational research (Stephen Eglen (University of Cambridge)) 2018-11-13 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Michael Rule (Control Group)) 2018-11-14 13:05: Embracing the Volatility of AWS Spot Fleet (Matthew Mead-Briggs, Yelp) 2018-11-14 14:00: How space constrains evolution: lessons from bacteria and bacteriophage (Dr Diana Fusco) 2018-11-14 14:00: Graph Neural Networks (Matej Balog (University of Cambridge)) 2018-11-14 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-11-15 11:00: Learning with Explanations (Tim Rocktäschel, Facebook AI Research) 2018-11-15 11:30: Computer Laboratory Recruitment Fair (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-11-15 13:00: Data Science in Drug Discovery (Maciej Hermanowicz - GSK) 2018-11-15 14:00: Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa (Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2018-11-15 14:00: Control Design Using Differential Games – From Centralised to Decentralised Control (Thulasi Mylvaganam, Imperial College London) 2018-11-15 15:00: Estimating low-rank matrices via approximate message passing (Ramji Venkataramanan, CUED) 2018-11-16 11:30: Computer Laboratory Recruitment Fair (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-11-16 12:00: The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology (Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-16 13:15: Escape from pluripotency (Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-16 14:00: Internet of Everything – From Molecules to the Universe (Dr Ozgur B. Akan, IEEE Fellow, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-19 13:05: How search uses Machine Learning (Fabrizio Silvestri, Facebook) 2018-11-19 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Circuit principles of memory-based behaviour choice". (Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-19 16:30: Non invasive detection of tissue specific cell death via methylation patterns of circulating DNA (Prof Yuval Dor from The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School) 2018-11-19 18:00: The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops (Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2018-11-20 11:00: Neural mechanisms of model-based planning in the rat (Kevin Miller, University College London) 2018-11-20 13:00: Accelerating discrete element method (DEM) simulations in LAMMPS (Jeffrey Salmond (University of Cambridge)) 2018-11-21 11:00: A brain-machine interface for locomotion driven by subspace dynamics (Karen E. Schroeder, Columbia University) 2018-11-21 14:00: Mathematical modelling of rapid evolutionary processes (Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge)) 2018-11-21 14:00: Natural gradient in deep neural networks (Alberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge)) 2018-11-22 11:00: Emergence of (linguistic) communication through multi-agent interactions (Angeliki Lazaridou, DeepMind) 2018-11-22 13:00: An introduction to Arm Systems and Arm ML (Matteo Andreozzi - ARM) 2018-11-22 14:00: Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast (Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge ) 2018-11-22 15:00: Chromebooks, USB-C and Google PI/SI Research (Mark Hayter (Google)) 2018-11-22 16:00: The emotional brain and the neurobiology of uniqueness (Tara L. White, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, USA) 2018-11-22 18:00: Early maternal-fetal interactions (Dr Roser Vento-Tormo, Wellcome Sanger Institute) 2018-11-23 13:15: Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt? (Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences) 2018-11-23 14:00: Multiscale physics-based strategies to address parameter uncertainty in crystal plasticity (Dr Gustavo M Castelluccio, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University) 2018-11-23 16:00: Acoustics and vibration of everyday things (Anurag Agarwal CUED) 2018-11-26 13:30: What can the Rust Programming Language do for Embedded Systems development? (Jonathan Pallant, Cambridge Consultants) 2018-11-26 14:00: Gen-Oja: A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Streaming Generalized Eigenvector Computation (Dr Nicolas Flammarion) 2018-11-26 16:30: Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus". (Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London) 2018-11-26 18:00: Epigenetic modifications (Dr Magdalena J Koziol, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2018-11-26 19:30: Talk: The Science of Conversation (Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University) 2018-11-27 11:00: Idris 2: Type Driven Development of Idris (Edwin Brady, St Andrews University ) 2018-11-27 13:00: Image Processing for Fluorescence Microscopy (Leila Muresan (University of Cambridge)) 2018-11-27 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Marcelo Mattar (CBL)) 2018-11-28 14:00: Mathematics for mechanistic biology and drug discovery (Dr Rahuman Sheriff (EMBL-EBI)) 2018-11-28 14:00: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge)) 2018-11-28 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-11-29 11:00: Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions (Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Essex)) 2018-11-29 13:00: Challenges of the Gaia photometric processing (Marco Riello - Gaia) 2018-11-29 13:00: CEDS group meeting (Dan Jones) 2018-11-29 13:30: BSU Seminar: “Estimation in two-stage adaptive threshold enrichment clinical trials” (Dr Peter Kimani, University of Warwick) 2018-11-29 14:00: Distributed price-based control of flexible electrical loads (Antonio De Paola, University of Bath) 2018-11-29 15:00: Cross-modality Inference in Ubiquitous Human Identification (Chris Lu (Oxford)) 2018-11-29 15:00: On optimal sampling in off-the-grid sparse regularisation. (Dr Clarice Poon, DAMTP & Peterhouse) 2018-11-29 19:00: Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us (Dr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge) 2018-11-30 12:00: Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering (Daniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt) 2018-11-30 16:00: Dripping down the rivulet (François Gallaire Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne) 2018-12-03 15:00: HE@Cam: Padraig Dixon - The causal effect of BMI on inpatient hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of the UK Biobank cohort (Dr Padraig Dixon, University of Bristol) 2018-12-06 14:00: Robustness and model reduction of dominant systems (Alberto Padoan, University of Cambridge) 2018-12-06 15:00: The nitty gritty of doing a PhD (Jon Crowcroft (Computer Lab)) 2018-12-06 16:00: Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis. (Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute) 2018-12-12 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - Christmas Vacation (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-12-13 13:00: Cancelled - CEDSG group meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2018-12-13 14:00: Control across scales by positive and negative feedback (Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge) 2018-12-13 15:00: Dr Spin, or the Tao of Threes (Jon Crowcroft (Computer Lab)) 2018-12-17 13:00: Cell-of-origin of prostate cancer and clinical heterogeneity (Dr Esther Baena from CRUK Manchester Institute ) 2018-12-18 10:30: Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models (Martin Tegner) 2019-01-09 14:00: Tracking performance of time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPF (Steven Low, Caltech) 2019-01-10 13:00: CEDSG group meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-01-16 13:00: What Can Fair ML Learn from Economic Theories of Distributive Justice? (Hoda Heidari, ETH Zurich ) 2019-01-17 11:00: Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms (Hoda Heidari) 2019-01-17 13:00: Musical Musicologies for the Digital Age (Mark Gotham - Cornell University) 2019-01-17 14:00: Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution (Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2019-01-17 14:00: Stochastic modeling and control of power grids under uncertainty (Alessandro Zocca, California Institute of Technology) 2019-01-17 16:00: Neural progenitors and neural tube defects. (Andy Copp, University College, London) 2019-01-18 11:00: Local and global synaptic credit assignment (Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol)) 2019-01-18 12:00: What makes psychotherapy work? Using deep learning to quantify the relationship between therapy content and outcomes (Ronan Cummins & Michael Ewbank, Ieso Digital Health) 2019-01-18 16:00: Revisiting Jeffery orbits: the importance of shape for micro-organism transport (Rachel Bearon, University of Liverpool) 2019-01-18 17:30: Visions (Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience) 2019-01-21 13:15: Designing Electronics for low-latency Trading Systems (Robin Bruce, current Head of the Infrastructure & Data team and former FPGA Systems Tech Lead, Optiver ) 2019-01-21 16:30: Probing the neural processes that underlie biased perceptual decisions by humans and monkeys (Kristine Krug, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) 2019-01-21 19:30: How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters (Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge) 2019-01-22 14:00: BSU Seminar: “How to obtain valid tests and confidence intervals for treatment effects after confounder selection” (Dr Oliver Dukes, Ghent University ) 2019-01-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel Acosta-Kane (CBL)) 2019-01-23 13:00: Introduction to the University HPC system (Cumulus) (Jeffrey Salmond and Chris Richardson) 2019-01-23 14:00: Computational approaches to Immuno-Oncology drug development (Dr Ben Sidders (Astrazeneca)) 2019-01-23 18:00: Learning and memory: a novel insight ( Dr Melanie Stefan) 2019-01-24 11:00: Learning and testing compositionality (Elia Bruni, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)) 2019-01-24 13:00: CEDSG group meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-01-24 13:00: Neural Machine Translation at SDL (Adria De Gispert - SDL) 2019-01-24 14:00: Experimental evolution in cancer cell lines (Dr Louise Johnson from School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading ) 2019-01-24 15:00: From Unikernels to Nabla Containers (Daniel Williams (IBM)) 2019-01-25 11:00: Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems (Tom Everitt (DeepMind)) 2019-01-25 12:00: **CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories (Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge) 2019-01-25 14:00: The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loops (Roy Smith, ETH Zürich ) 2019-01-25 14:00: Microstructure for continuous and localised intrinsic curvature creation – “strong” micromechanics (Prof Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) 2019-01-25 16:00: Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems (Alexandros Beskos, University College London ) 2019-01-25 16:00: The fluid dynamics of ocean fronts (John Taylor, DAMTP) 2019-01-25 17:30: Colour and Vision (Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University) 2019-01-28 13:15: IMC Tech Talk (Pierre Bashshour, Lex van der Stoep & Henry Mattinson, IMC) 2019-01-28 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Probabilistic approaches for optimal sequential feature acquisition" (Dr Christopher Yau, University of Birmingham and The Alan Turing Institute) 2019-01-28 14:00: Stein Discrepancy (Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge)) 2019-01-28 16:30: Brain dynamics during tactile discrimination behavior ( Fritjof Helmchen, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich) 2019-01-28 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder (Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering) 2019-01-28 18:00: Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder (Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering) 2019-01-30 14:00: Pure Mathematics in Crisis (Professor Kevin Buzzard) 2019-01-30 14:00: Replacing pathologists with next generation diagnostics: use of artificial intelligence to analyse image and DNA sequencing data (Dr Elizabeth Sollieux (Dept of Pathology), Dr Matt Thorpe (DAMTP) and Oliver Crook (MRC Biostatistics Unit/DAMTP)) 2019-01-30 15:30: Latent Variable Models for Bayesian Inference with Stable Distributions and Processes (Marina Riabiz, King's College London) 2019-01-30 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-01-30 17:30: Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S. (Professor Naomi Lamoreaux - Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History - Yale University) 2019-01-31 13:00: Canceled (Ulrich Kerzel) 2019-01-31 13:30: Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds (Taco Cohen) 2019-01-31 15:00: Replace your exploit-ridden firmware with a Linux Kernel (Ron Minnich (Google)) 2019-01-31 16:00: The molecular and cellular logic of spinal cord formation (James Briscoe, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2019-02-01 12:00: Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization (Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google) 2019-02-01 12:30: High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay (Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford) 2019-02-01 13:15: Gastruloids: a pluripotent stem cell-based model of early mammalian development (Naomi Moris, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-01 14:00: Metamorphic architected materials for dynamic application (Dr Stefan Szyniszewski, University of Surrey ) 2019-02-01 15:30: Postdoc/JRF seminars (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-02-01 17:30: Evolution of the Eye (Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University) 2019-02-04 13:15: Digital Technology & Personalised Medicine (Louis Swain and Oliver Abbey, TPP) 2019-02-04 16:30: Cellular dissection of visual cortex reveals dedicated pathways for multisensory computations (Troy Margrie) 2019-02-04 19:30: Inflamed Depression (Prof. Edward Bullmore, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-05 13:00: Quick intro to building and analysing distributed representation of graphs (Paul Scherer) 2019-02-05 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Laurence Aitchison (CBL)) 2019-02-06 13:00: Webassembly for total beginners (like me) (Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-06 13:15: Security Engineering @ nCipher (Pali Surdhar, nCipher) 2019-02-06 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life (Professor Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit ) 2019-02-07 11:00: Probabilistic Typology (Ryan Cotterell ( University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-07 13:00: CEDSG group meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-02-07 15:00: Accountable Systems and Google Maps (Ben Wagner (Vienna University)) 2019-02-08 12:00: Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions) (Piotr Mirowski, DeepMind) 2019-02-08 13:15: RNA methylation as a new epigenetic mark in cancer (Isaia Barbieri, Dept. of Pathology, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-08 14:00: Active Cell Mechanics (Professor Ulrich Schwarz, Institute for Theoretical Physics and BioQuant, Heidelberg University, Germany ) 2019-02-08 16:00: Injection, migration, and pressure dissipation in layered aquifer systems (Chris MacMinn, University of Oxford) 2019-02-08 17:30: Vision of Future Technology (Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs) 2019-02-08 18:00: Wellcome’s role on global health and scientific policy challenge (Ed Whiting, Director of Policy and Chief of Staff) 2019-02-11 16:30: Mechanisms of memory revaluation in Drosophila (Scott Waddell, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford) 2019-02-11 18:00: When algebra meets geometry (Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS ) 2019-02-12 16:00: Performance Contracts for Software Network Functions (Rishabh Iyer (EPFL)) 2019-02-13 13:00: Performance and scaling improvements for CASTEP (Research Software Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-13 13:45: Logical Uncertainty (Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-13 14:00: Prioritization of mutations in coding and noncoding regions of the human genome using machine learning approaches (Dr Sudhakaran Prabakaran (Dept of Genetics)) 2019-02-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-02-14 11:00: Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know? (Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-14 11:00: Online Meta-Learning (Massimiliano Pontil, University College London) 2019-02-14 11:30: Air Transportation 'Factory': Processes, Challenges and Methods (Dr Goran Stojkovic (Boeing Digital Aviation and Analytics)) 2019-02-14 13:00: Learning when to “Love Thy Neighbour” in Blockchain Communication Networks (Jonathan Ward - Fetch.AI) 2019-02-14 14:00: Contraction Analysis of Monotone Systems (Yu Kawano, University of Groningen) 2019-02-14 16:00: Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing (Robin Franklin, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2019-02-14 16:00: Open Source Quantum Computing (Mathew Treinish (IBM)) 2019-02-15 10:00: Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in mice (Dr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge)) 2019-02-15 12:00: Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks (Miltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research) 2019-02-15 13:15: Using phosphoproteomics to study context-specific signalling (Evangelia Petsalaki, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge) 2019-02-15 14:00: Phase field modelling of crack propagation (Dr Emilio Martinez-Paneda, CUED) 2019-02-15 14:00: Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE (Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE) 2019-02-15 14:30: General theory of the Kanzaki force field: static and dynamic models of dislocations and other extended defects (Dr Benat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, CUED) 2019-02-15 16:00: Swimming in mud: viscoplastic locomotion and slender-body theory (Duncan Hewitt, DAMTP) 2019-02-15 17:30: Appearance and Physical Reality (Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics) 2019-02-18 12:00: Unleashing your inner maker (Prof. Daniela Rus, MIT) 2019-02-18 13:00: Learning Engines for Healthcare: Using Machine Learning to Transform Clinical Practice and Discovery (Prof Mihaela van der Schaar from Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-18 18:00: Does seeing help you to hear better? (Professor Jennifer Bizley, UCL) 2019-02-18 19:30: Cancers and the tumour microenvironment (Prof. Frances Balkwill, Queen Mary University of London) 2019-02-19 13:00: Dilated DenseNets for Relational Reasoning (Agnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-20 13:00: Machine learning approximations in finite volume methods (Sam Lewin, Research Software Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-20 13:45: Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks (Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind)) 2019-02-20 14:00: Ribosome profiling and virus infection (Dr Andrew Firth (Dept of Pathology)) 2019-02-20 14:30: Advances in machine learning for molecules (José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Department of Engineering (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-21 11:00: Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward (Edward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research) 2019-02-21 13:00: The computational challenge of the Square Kilometre Array (Mark Ashdown - SKA) 2019-02-21 13:15: Machine Learning for the benefit of Engineering (Dr Stephan Waldert, Arm) 2019-02-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Sample size considerations for the design clinical trials – quantifying the target difference and the target no-difference” (Prof Steven Julious, University of Sheffield) 2019-02-21 14:00: Block Scaled Diagonal Dominance for Applications in Control Theory and Optimisation (Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford) 2019-02-21 15:00: Computational Behavior Analysis through Wearables and Machine Learning -- Pushing the Boundaries towards usable Digital Health. (Thomas Ploetz (Georgia Tech)) 2019-02-22 12:00: Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media (Dong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute) 2019-02-22 13:15: Cross-talk between cell mechanics, cell shape and cell fate (Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London & PDN, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-22 14:00: Coupled mechanical and electronic fields in graphene and their optimization for nanomechanical devices (Dr Gareth Wyn Jones, School of Mathematics, University of Manchester) 2019-02-22 16:00: Tidal flows in planets and stars (Adrian Barker, University of Leeds) 2019-02-22 17:30: Viewing the Universe (Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge) 2019-02-25 16:30: The computational physiology of the basal ganglia and of their disorders and therapy (Hagai Bergman, Department of Medical Neurobiology (Physiology) Institute of medical research – Israel Canada (IMRIC), The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC)) 2019-02-25 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind (A V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London) 2019-02-26 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Optimal Feature Selection using model-based Deep Reinforcement Learning” (Dr Konstantina Pallas, Microsoft) 2019-02-27 11:00: Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex (Gergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics)) 2019-02-27 13:45: Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning (Chaochao Lu (University of Cambridge)) 2019-02-27 14:00: Chemical and Biological Data - from Compound Selection to Mode of Action Analysis (and Back Again) (Dr Andreas Bender (Centre for Molecular Informatics, Dept of Chemistry)) 2019-02-27 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-02-27 18:00: Foetal adaptations to adversity and effects on human behaviour (Professor Jonathan Hill) 2019-02-28 13:00: ** CANCELED ** (Stephanie Wright - The Hut Group) 2019-02-28 13:00: Neural Code Comprehension: A Learnable Representation of Code Semantics (Tal Ben-Nun, ETH Zurich) 2019-02-28 14:00: Epigenetic inheritance in mammals (Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge ) 2019-02-28 15:00: A Framework for Data Collection and Management for IoT (Maribel Fernandez (KCL)) 2019-02-28 16:00: Astrocytes and the regulation of energy homeostasis (Kate Ellacott, University of Exeter Medical School) 2019-03-01 12:00: Learning multi-domain dialogues (Paweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge) 2019-03-01 13:15: Dynamic receipt of the BMP signal in the Drosophila ovary (Hilary Ashe, Division of Cell Matrix Biology & Regenerative Medicine, University of Manchester) 2019-03-01 14:00: Non-conventional polymer composite materials: expanding the design envelope of aerospace structures (Dr Pedro Camanho, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, University of Porto) 2019-03-01 14:00: Texture analysis and Machine Learning for the Prediction of Cardiovascular Events (Elizabeth Le (University of Cambridge)) 2019-03-01 16:00: Atmospheric dispersion in cities (Stephen Belcher, Met Office) 2019-03-01 17:30: Computer Vision (Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre) 2019-03-04 11:00: Deep Reinforcement Learning: from AlphaGo to AlphaStar (Dr David Silver, DeepMind) 2019-03-04 19:30: How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor. (Prof. Aoife McLysaght, Trinity College, University of Dublin) 2019-03-06 13:00: InSitu visualisation for large simulations (Kacper Kornet, DAMTP) 2019-03-06 13:45: Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and Approaches (Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge)) 2019-03-06 14:00: Statistical Approaches to Personalised Medicine in Breast Cancer (Dr Oscar Rueda (CRUK - CI)) 2019-03-07 11:00: Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks (Gamal Crichton, Language Technology Lab) 2019-03-07 13:00: CEDSG group meeting - Paper discussion: Bolton and Zanna 2019 (Paper discussion) 2019-03-07 13:00: Oil Trading - Statistical Analysis using Financial and Fundamental data Sets (Milos Krkic - BP (Supply and Trading)) 2019-03-07 14:00: Super-resolution imaging - STED and related advanced microscopy techniques (Dr Martin Lenz from Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge ) 2019-03-07 16:30: Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration (Frank Bradke, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany.) 2019-03-08 12:00: K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionals (Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark) 2019-03-08 13:15: Epithelial Morphogenesis: from cell to tissue dynamics (Yohanns Bellaïche, Institut Curie, Paris, France) 2019-03-08 14:00: Carbon Nanotube Mechanics: nano and macro; liquid and solid; stiff and soft—but always conductive (Prof Pasquali, Rice University, Huston Texas) 2019-03-08 14:00: Improving the Flexibility and Robustness of Derivative-Free Optimization Solvers (Lindon Roberts) 2019-03-08 16:00: Bio-inspired control of pressure fluctuations and trailing edge noise (William Devenport, Virginia Tech) 2019-03-08 17:30: Perception of Visual Space (Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study) 2019-03-11 13:00: Regulatory Genomics: From Basic Biology to Disease Mechanisms and Ageing (Dr Judith Zaugg from EMBL in Heidelberg) 2019-03-11 18:00: Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers (Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture ) 2019-03-12 10:00: Open Issues in Build Systems (Ulf Adams, Google) 2019-03-12 14:00: A variational approach to nonlinear and interacting diffusions (Professor Pierre Del Moral) 2019-03-12 14:15: Untangling Interactive Systems ( Philip Tchernavskij, Université Paris-Saclay) 2019-03-13 13:45: Implicit Variational Inference (Andrew Foong (University of Cambridge)) 2019-03-13 14:00: Towards the high-level sequence code of gene regulation (Dr Aleksandr Sahakyan (MRC WIMM, Oxford)) 2019-03-13 15:30: Temporal Resolution Multiplexing: Exploiting the limitations of spatio-temporal vision for more efficient VR rendering (conference practice talk) (Gyorgy Denes (University of Cambridge)) 2019-03-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-03-13 18:00: Dementia and brain ageing in populations (Professor Carol Brayne, Cambridge Institute for Public Health) 2019-03-14 11:00: Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation (Massimo Poesio ( University of Essex)) 2019-03-14 11:30: Calling for "Intelligent-related" technology innovation in Chinese Logistics Industry (Dr Wenrong Lu (YH Global Supply Chain)) 2019-03-14 13:00: Aviva’s Algorithmic Decision Agent (Damian Rumble - Aviva) 2019-03-14 14:00: The K-FAC method for neural network optimization (James Martens, Google Deep Mind) 2019-03-14 15:00: LinuxKit: new ways of using Linux (Justin Cormack (Docker)) 2019-03-15 08:45: Bioengineering Conference (Mihaela van der Schaar, Somenath Bakshi, Sebastian Pattinson, Fumiya Iida, Rasha Rezk, Felice Torrisi, George Malliaras, James Ward, Roger Mason, Andrew Flewitt, Flavia Mancini) 2019-03-15 13:00: What difference does one tonne make? (David Carter, Microsoft Research Cambridge) 2019-03-15 16:00: Electricity in liquid foams (Anne-Laure Biance, ILM Lyon) 2019-03-18 16:00: MSR Cambridge Cloud Talk Series; Structured light: seeing less to see more in optical microscopy (Professor of Photonics, Mark Neil, Imperial College London ) 2019-03-18 19:30: How do we measure quality in higher education? (Prof. Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge) 2019-03-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Ta-Chu (Calvin) Kao -- CBL) 2019-03-20 15:00: Debugging and Repairing P4 Programs (Costin Raiciu (University Politehnica of Bucharest)) 2019-03-21 13:00: CEDSG group meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-03-21 13:15: 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences (Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris) 2019-03-21 15:00: Network Science and Telecommunications (Piet Van Mieghem (TU Delft)) 2019-03-21 16:00: Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions (Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem) 2019-03-22 09:00: 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences (Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris) 2019-03-22 14:00: Non-contrast Enhanced MRI in Central Nervous System (Professor Meiyun Wang) 2019-03-22 15:00: The Case For In-Network Computing On Demand (Noa Zilberman (Computer Lab)) 2019-03-22 16:00: SPECIAL FOSTER TALK . Breaking symmetry in the brain - from genes to circuits and behaviour (Steve Wilson, University College, London) 2019-03-25 13:00: A systems biology approach to identify perturbed processes driving cancer (Professor Francesca D. Ciccarelli from King’s College London & The Francis Crick Institute) 2019-03-27 11:00: Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care (David Sontag, MIT) 2019-03-27 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-03-28 16:00: Dynamic cell interactions and biomechanics in liver morphogenesis (Elke Ober, University of Copenhagen) 2019-04-03 13:45: Sampling as Optimization (Eric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge) 2019-04-04 11:00: Finding translations in unordered text using multilingual sentence representations (Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku) 2019-04-04 11:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud) 2019-04-04 11:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud) 2019-04-04 13:00: CEDSG group meeting - Risa and Robert discussing downscaling (Risa Ueno and Robert Rouse) 2019-04-04 13:00: Mapping the 3-D Distribution of Dust in the Milky Way with Stellar Photometry (Josh Speagle - Harvard) 2019-04-04 16:00: Global model explainability via aggregation (Umang Bhatt, CMU) 2019-04-08 11:00: NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs (Abir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems) 2019-04-08 15:00: BSU Seminar: "Information theory in dose-finding trials" (Prof. Thomas Jaki, Lancaster University) 2019-04-09 14:00: Assessing the contribution of hydrogen-deformation interactions to hydrogen-induced intergranular fracture in nickel-base alloys (Dr Zachary Harris. University of Virginia) 2019-04-10 10:30: An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 1 (Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd) 2019-04-11 09:30: An introduction to clustering and the expectation maximisation algorithm Part 2 (Richard Turner Microsoft Research Ltd) 2019-04-11 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Building Representative Matched Samples with Multi-valued Treatments in Large Observational Studies” (Professor Jose Zubizarreta, Harvard University) 2019-04-11 15:00: IPv6 over LPWAN: when 6LoWPAN is too heavy for (long range) IoT links! (Carles Gomez (UPC)) 2019-04-24 10:00: Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains (University of Waterloo) 2019-04-24 10:00: Canopus and RCanopus: Scalable Consensus for Permissioned Blockchains (University of Waterloo) 2019-04-24 14:00: An Overview of Normalizing Flows (Robert Pinsler) 2019-04-25 13:00: Climate Prediction in the Era of AI (Scott Hosking - Cambridge ‘AI for Environment Risks’ CDT) 2019-04-25 14:00: Role of the endosomal network in cell and tissue organization (Professor Marino Zerial from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden ) 2019-04-25 14:00: Probabilistic Reliability Management for Electric Power Systems Operation (Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège) 2019-04-25 15:00: A Decade of Ubiquitous Computing Research in Mental Health (Jakob Bardram (DTU)) 2019-04-26 12:00: Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese (Kanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan) 2019-04-26 14:00: Bio-electromechanical interfaces and sensors based on functional nanomaterials (Dr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge) 2019-04-26 14:00: Quality and Reliability from a Systems Engineering Perspective (Professor Min Xie (City University of Hong Kong)) 2019-04-26 14:00: Nigrolstriatal Degeneration in Early-Stage Pakinson’s Disease Using Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping and 18F-DTBZ PET: a Pilot Study (Professor Yuxin Li) 2019-04-26 16:00: Symmetry, bifurcation, and multi-agent decision-making (Prof. Naomi Leonard, Princeton) 2019-04-26 16:00: Oceanic variability of the Amundsen Sea and its importance for Antarctic ice shelves (Karen Heywood, University of East Anglia ) 2019-04-29 13:15: Disruptive Innovation at Ocado (Dr David Sharp, Head of Ocado Technology 10x) 2019-04-29 19:30: “The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived? (Mr. Mark Slack, CMR Surgical and University of Cambridge) 2019-04-30 13:00: Interpretable Deep Learning (Botty Dimanov) 2019-04-30 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Gido van de Ven) 2019-05-01 14:00: Stochastic variants of classical optimization methods, with complexity guarantees (Professor Coralia Cartis) 2019-05-01 14:00: Generalisation in neural networks (Marton Havasi) 2019-05-02 13:00: CEDSG group meeting - Petr Doležal will discuss his part III project (Petr Doležal) 2019-05-02 14:00: Think Global Act Local: do local morphological changes influence differentiation of pluripotent cells? (Dr Sally Lowell from Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh ) 2019-05-02 14:00: Human and Robot Decision Making in Multi-Armed Bandits (naomi@princeton.edu) 2019-05-02 16:00: An early hematopoietic progenitor contributes endothelial cells to organ vasculature (Christiana Ruhrberg, University College, London) 2019-05-03 12:00: Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality (Zohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-03 13:15: Cyclin B1 and the spindle assembly check point: A 15 year odyssey (Jonathon Pines, The Institute of Cancer Research, University of London) 2019-05-03 14:00: Self-similarly expanding regions of phase change yield cavitational instabilities and model deep earthquakes (Prof Xanthippi Markenscoff, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego) 2019-05-03 16:00: Variable magmatism at mid-ocean ridges (David Rees Jones, University of Oxford) 2019-05-07 11:00: Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees (Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech) 2019-05-08 14:00: Stochastic Differential Equations (David Burt) 2019-05-08 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-05-09 11:00: How to Pay Attention: Learning to Transfer Knowledge between Sentences and Tokens (Marek Rei ( University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-09 13:00: The model is simple until proven otherwise (Anita Faul (University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-09 14:00: A new force awakens: comparative approach to tissue morphogenesis in insects (Dr Pavel Tomancak from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden ) 2019-05-09 14:00: Regulation of Ant Foraging as a Closed-Loop Excitable System (Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University) 2019-05-09 16:15: Behavioural analysis and modelling in HCI/HRI (Indu Bodala (University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-10 12:00: Can machine learning trump theory in communication system design? (Prof. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford) 2019-05-10 12:00: Factorising AMR generation through syntax (Kris Cao, DeepMind) 2019-05-10 13:15: Stem cell dynamics define clone fixation and spread in human colonic epithelium (Doug Winton, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2019-05-10 13:45: 2nd-year student talks (2nd-year student talks, DAMTP) 2019-05-10 14:00: Advanced digital drop control: Managing the mechanical forces when printing for new material and device development (Dr Ronan Daly, CUED) 2019-05-10 15:00: Deep Learning for Multifarious Speech Processing: Tackling Multiple Speakers, Microphones, and Languages (Jonathan Le Roux, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA) 2019-05-13 19:30: Gene eating (Dr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-14 10:00: 1st Year PhD DIAL Seminar (1st year PhD students (IfM-DIAL, University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Xizi Li (CBL)) 2019-05-15 09:00: CCBI Annual Symposium 2019 (REGISTRATION REQUIRED) 2019-05-15 11:00: Crostini - Architecture for running Linux VMs seamlessly and securely on Chrome OS (Zach Reizner (Google)) 2019-05-15 14:00: Particle MCMC (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-16 13:00: Can you predict the winner? Data Science for Sports (Stephen Smith & Emmanuel Dimont - Pythia Sports) 2019-05-16 13:00: CEDSG group meeting - discussion on Dueben and Bauer 2018 (Rachel Furner) 2019-05-16 14:00: Cascade Dynamics, Multiplex Networks and Heterogeneity (Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University) 2019-05-16 15:00: The Smart Hospital Living Lab (Vassilis Kostakos (University of Melbourne)) 2019-05-16 16:00: Regulating needs: Exploring the role of insulin-like growth factor-2 in materno-fetal resource allocation and its importance for development, physiology and disease (Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri) 2019-05-16 16:15: Enhanced Reality Human Machine Interfaces (Ozgur Yontem (University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-17 11:00: Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence? (Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths) 2019-05-17 12:00: AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI (Karina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-17 13:15: Linking physical gut remodelling to stem cell divisions in Drosophila (Golnar Kolahgar, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-17 14:00: The effect of pore structure and pore fluids on the elastic moduli and wavespeeds in porous rocks (Prof. Robert Zimmerman. Imperial College London) 2019-05-17 14:00: The Statistical Finite Element Method (Prof. Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Chair of Civil Engineering, CUED) 2019-05-17 16:00: Damping sloshing by confinement, foams, or contact angle hysteresis (Benjamin Dollet, LiPhy Grenoble) 2019-05-20 13:00: Batchelor lecture 1: Forces when moving in a granular medium: stirring, drilling and segregation (Olivier Pouliquen, IUSTI, Aix-Marseille University ) 2019-05-20 15:00: HE@Cam: Michael Laxy - Implementing lifestyle intervention to prevent diabetes in US Medicaid beneficiaries: cost-effectiveness, budgetary impact and health equity impact (Michael Laxy) 2019-05-20 16:00: Frontier Thinking: Designing Next Generation User Experiences (Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland) 2019-05-20 16:30: The mechanics and biophysics of getting in touch ( Miriam Goodman, Beckmann Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Stanford University, California, USA) 2019-05-21 11:00: How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and deceleration (Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine)) 2019-05-21 15:00: A local weak limit approach to the study of graphical data (Prof. Venkat Anantharam, University of California, Berkeley) 2019-05-22 13:00: The model is simple until proven otherwise (Anita Faul, LSC, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-22 14:00: Diffusion bridge simulation in geometric statistics (Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology) 2019-05-22 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-05-23 11:00: Predicting and Analysing Online User Behaviour with Natural Language Processing (Nikolaos Aletras (University of Sheffield)) 2019-05-23 13:00: Multidimensional interactive optimisation for urban development (Helene Margrethe Bøhler - Spacemaker) 2019-05-23 14:00: Limits of precision in stochastic cell biology (Glenn Vinnicombe, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-23 14:15: Light field acquisition and spatio-angular tradeoff (Zeshan Alam (University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-23 15:00: Local-first software: Returning data ownership to users (Martin Kleppman (Computer Lab)) 2019-05-24 12:00: Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages (Ryan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-24 13:15: Study of pioneer factor concentration, chromatin binding kinetics & cell-to-cell variability during genomeawakening (Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh) 2019-05-24 14:00: Strain gradient plasticity: Numerical modeling of size-effects in porous metals (Prof Christian F. Niordson, DTU) 2019-05-24 16:00: Batchelor lecture 2: An active granular medium at the origin of the sensitivity of plants to gravity (Olivier Pouliquen, IUSTI, Aix-Marseille University ) 2019-05-28 14:30: CCIMI Video Contest (CCIMI Members) 2019-05-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Thomas Burger (Control Group)) 2019-05-29 00:00: Title to be confirmed - CCIMI Colloquium (Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-29 13:00: Nektar++: an open-source spectral/hp element frameworks (Chris Cantwell, Imperial College London) 2019-05-29 14:00: Cell Mechanics Based Microfluidics for Disease Diagnosis & Therapy: From Bench to Bedside (Prof. Chwee Teck (C.T.) Lim, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Institute for Global Health Research and Technology, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore) 2019-05-29 16:15: The Principle of Least Cognitive Action (Professor Marco Gori) 2019-05-30 11:00: Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking (Andreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-30 13:00: Delivering precision medicine while providing individual data protection and transparency (Patrick Short - Sano Genetics) 2019-05-30 13:00: CEDSG group meeting (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-05-30 14:15: How can AI be used for Social Good? Lessons from Africa’s Voices Foundation (Luke Church (University of Cambridge)) 2019-05-30 15:00: Test Automation and Debug hardware for Chromebooks (Mark Hayter (Google)) 2019-05-31 12:00: Towards secure and efficient DNNs (Aaron Zhao, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-31 13:15: Timing of the first lineage segregation in the early mouse embryo (Meng Zhu, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2019-05-31 14:00: Atomistically inspired origami (Prof Richard D. James, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota) 2019-05-31 16:00: The evolution of complexity in free-surface flows (Andrew Hazel, University of Manchester) 2019-06-03 16:00: An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations (Ilse Ipsen (NCSU)) 2019-06-03 19:00: The model is simple until proven otherwise. (Dr Anita Faul, Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge.) 2019-06-04 14:00: On indefinite damping and gyroscopic stabilization (Tobias Damm, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern) 2019-06-05 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-06-06 11:00: Relational knowledge in vector spaces (Luis Espinosa-Anke (University of Cardiff)) 2019-06-06 13:00: **Canceled** (Anna Jordan - Alchera Technologies) 2019-06-06 14:00: Stochastic Sylvester equations for output regulation of linear stochastic systems (Giordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London) 2019-06-06 14:15: Where Ideas Take Shapes (Yann Savoye, Robert Gordon University) 2019-06-07 12:00: Continuous feature structures: Can we learn structured representations with neural networks? (Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge) 2019-06-07 13:00: MET Project Presentations (MET students (IfM, University of Cambridge)) 2019-06-07 14:00: Additive Manufacturing of Biomechanically Tailored Meshes for Compliant Wearable and Implantable (Dr Sebastian Pattinson, CUED) 2019-06-07 16:00: The life and death of a granular raft (Suzie Protière, UPMC Paris) 2019-06-10 11:00: I can see what you think: The mental image revealed by gaze tracking (Xi Wang, Technsiche Universität Berlin) 2019-06-10 19:30: Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption. (Prof. Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford) 2019-06-11 15:00: Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and Divisiveness (Reza Babaei) 2019-06-11 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dhruva Raman (University of Cambridge)) 2019-06-12 14:00: Rethinking the development of constitutive relations (Prof. Kumbakonam Rajagopal, Texas A&M University) 2019-06-13 10:00: Photonics for Computing: from Optical Interconnects to Neuromorphic Architectures (Nikos Pleros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 2019-06-13 13:00: CEDSG group meeting - discussion on Sonnewald, Wunsch, Heimbach 2019 (Dan Jones) 2019-06-13 14:00: Morphological Computation - A Potential Solution for the Control Problem in Soft Robotics (Helmut Hauser, University of Bristol) 2019-06-13 14:15: Cuscus: An End User Programming Tool for Data Visualisation (Mariana Marasoiu (University of Cambridge)) 2019-06-13 16:00: Photons in the cloud: communicating and storing data (Prof John H Marsh, University of Glasgow) 2019-06-14 12:00: An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation (Felix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge) 2019-06-14 14:00: Mechanics of Polymer Brushes (Prof Srikantha Anasavarapu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CANADA) 2019-06-17 12:00: Simple Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Continuous State and Action Space Systems (Prof. Rahul Jain, University of Southern California) 2019-06-17 16:30: New ideas on the organization of neural circuitry (Larry Swanson, University of Southern California) 2019-06-19 15:00: Duolingo: Improving Language Learning and Assessment with A.I. (Burr Settles, Duolingo) 2019-06-19 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-06-20 11:00: Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local Competition (Konstantinos P. Panousis) 2019-06-20 14:00: Automotive Control Using Non-Linear System Models With Uncertainty (Thomas Steffen, Loughborough University) 2019-06-25 13:30: PRECOG: PREdiction Conditioned On Goals in Visual Multi-Agent Settings (Rowan McAlister, University of California, Berkeley) 2019-06-26 11:00: Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational Inference (Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia) 2019-06-27 11:30: Solving Large-scale Machine Learning Problems (Vinod Kumar (IfM-DIAL, University of Cambridge)) 2019-06-27 13:00: CEDSG group meeting - cancelled (Ushnish Sengupta) 2019-07-01 14:15: Fast Adaptation with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Trust Modelling in Human-Robot Interaction (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-07-01 14:15: Fast Adaptation with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Trust Modelling in Human-Robot Interaction (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-07-04 14:15: Fast Adaptation with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Trust Modelling in Human-Robot Interaction (Alex Yuan Gao) 2019-07-05 12:00: Natural Language Generation in the Wild (Daniel Beck, University of Melbourne) 2019-07-11 13:00: Ushnish Sengupta, Listening for instabilities with probabilistic machine learning (Ushnish Sengupta, Engineering Dept.) 2019-07-12 11:00: Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks (Amos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh) 2019-07-17 14:00: Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks (Matthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute) 2019-07-17 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-07-18 11:30: Hub Location Problem Concerning Multiple Service Levels (Professor Jian Zhou (Shanghai University)) 2019-07-18 14:00: Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control theory (Melvin Leok, University of California, San Diego) 2019-07-18 16:00: Antennas for light and their applications in classical optics (Dr Rupert Oulton, Imperial College ) 2019-07-25 13:00: *Cancelled* (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-07-31 11:00: How good is your classifier? Revisiting the role of evaluation metrics in machine learning (Sanmi Koyejo, University of Illinois ) 2019-07-31 14:00: Using reason and evidence to do the most good (Eve McCormick - Effective Altruism Cambridge & Olly Crook - University of Cambridge) 2019-08-07 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-08-08 13:00: Subgrid Scale Information: Separating Urban and Rural Ozone (Matthew Shin, Chemistry Dept) 2019-08-08 15:00: The new USB4 standard (Mark Hayter (Google)) 2019-08-09 11:00: Physical security and side channel attacks in Arm based SoCs (Chowdary Yanamadala & Jeremy Dubeuf, ARM) 2019-08-22 13:00: Using machine learning to make skillful predictions of the wintertime North Atlantic Oscillation (James Keeble, Chemistry dept) 2019-08-23 11:00: Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep Learning (Wesley Maddox (New York University)) 2019-08-28 15:00: Context and Behaviour Modelling of User and Urban Activities (Flora Salim (RMIT University)) 2019-08-30 14:00: Learned image reconstruction for large scale tomographic imaging (Professor Andreas Hauptmann) 2019-09-03 10:00: Modeling User Experience in Games: Lessons Learned (Gerogios Yannakakis, University of Malta) 2019-09-04 10:30: Three case studies for coexisting mechanisms in protein-pattern forming systems (Fridtjof Brauns, LMU Munich) 2019-09-04 11:00: Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA (Rajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt) 2019-09-05 13:00: *Cancelled* (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-09-05 15:00: Clustering insomnia pattern and learning sleep quality from daily logs (Shaun Park (KAIST)) 2019-09-10 10:00: Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution (Dan Wetmore, PhD, Director of Clinical and Research partnerships, CTRL-labs) 2019-09-10 10:00: Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution (Patrick Kaifosh, PhD, Chief Science Officer, CTRL-labs) 2019-09-11 15:00: Industrial Asset and Maintenance Management in the Smart Factory: challenges and opportunities (Professor Marco Macchi (Politecnico di Milano)) 2019-09-11 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-09-12 14:00: Minkowski, Lyapunov, and Bellman: Inequalities and Equations for Stability and Optimal Control (Sasa Rakovic, Beijing Institute of Technology) 2019-09-12 15:00: Context-Based Zero-Interaction Authentication (Neil Klingensmith (Loyola University Chicago)) 2019-09-13 14:00: TBD (Jin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge) 2019-09-18 12:00: ‘Profit factory’ and ‘bathroom break’: How to analyse compounds and how to predict their emergence (Lonneke van der Plas (University of Malta)) 2019-09-19 13:00: The Silver Lining of Clustering: Finding Boundaries in the Southern Ocean (Simon Thomas (BAS)) 2019-09-23 13:00: A human-oriented term rewriting system (Ed Ayers (University of Cambridge)) 2019-09-23 15:00: How to Partition Resources and Eliminate (Most) OS Abstractions for Fast I/O (Pekka Enberg (University of Helsinki)) 2019-09-24 09:30: Advanced polarized light microscopy for mapping molecular orientation (Prof Rudolf Oldenbourg, Marine Biological Laboratory, MA) 2019-09-24 10:00: Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles (Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project) 2019-09-24 14:00: Long-term dynamics of synapses and representations in the mouse auditory cortex (Prof. Simon Rumpel, University of Mainz) 2019-09-30 11:00: Amulet and Auracle: Wearable Platforms for mHealth Research (David Kotz (Dartmouth College)) 2019-09-30 19:30: Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future. (Professor Tim Minshall, Institutue for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge) 2019-10-01 13:15: How to build a primate: Towards a synthetic model of primate embryogenesis (Thorsten Edwin Boroviak PDN, University of Cambridge) 2019-10-04 14:00: Deformable image registration of abdominal CT images using deep learning: challenges and opportunities (Maureen van Eijnatten) 2019-10-07 11:00: Agricultural Robotics (Charles Fox (University of Lincoln)) 2019-10-08 11:00: *Cancelled* - AI4ER-CEDSG group meeting (*Cancelled*) 2019-10-08 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Calvin Kao) 2019-10-09 10:00: Neurotransmitter spillover modulates neuronal information transmission (Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich)) 2019-10-09 13:00: Pushing the limits of exoplanet discovery via direct imaging with deep learning (Dr Piero Coronica, UIS, University of Cambridge) 2019-10-09 15:00: Random Caching Based Transmission in Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks (Prof. Fu-Chun Zheng, Harbin Institute of Technology, China) 2019-10-09 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-10-10 11:00: Latent Variable Models for Text Generation (Xiaoyu Shen, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute) 2019-10-10 11:30: Dopamine as prediction error in active inference (Rafal Bogacz (Oxford)) 2019-10-10 13:00: Subsurface imaging with deep learning (Song Hou -- CGG) 2019-10-10 14:00: Soft robotics: Fusing actuation with perception (Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London) 2019-10-10 14:00: Transposable elements and the evolution of the human brain (Professor Johan Jakobsson, Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University, Sweden ) 2019-10-11 12:30: DIAL New Starters Seminar Series 1 (Georgios Hadjidemetriou, German Terrazas, Yedige Tlegenov) 2019-10-11 14:00: Hydrogen induced fast fracture ( Profs Gábor Csányi and Vikram Deshpande (University of Cambridge)) 2019-10-11 16:00: On the validity of shallow-water models of fluid flow (David Dritschel, St Andrews) 2019-10-14 13:05: Dealing with the 3 V's: Bigger, Faster, Weirder (Dr Joris Peeters, GSA Capital) 2019-10-14 16:30: Towards a brain architecture for visual behavior selection (Gwyneth Card, HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA) 2019-10-14 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC? (Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00) 2019-10-14 19:30: Big Data Psychometrics (Dr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School) 2019-10-15 11:00: Designing Research for Sustainability (Dr Amy Munro-Faure) 2019-10-15 13:00: Verifiable robustness of neural networks in autonomous vehicles. (Edward Ayers (Department of Mathematics)) 2019-10-15 13:15: Accelerating Machine Learning on Arm (: Isabella Gottardi, Software Engineer, ARM) 2019-10-15 14:00: Synchronization of heterogeneous agents via funnel coupling (Stephan Trenn, University of Groningen) 2019-10-16 13:00: MPI in TROVE: calculating high temperature line lists for large polyatomic molecules (Arjen Tamerus, UIS, University of Cambridge) 2019-10-16 13:05: Interactive workshop with Goldman Sachs (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-10-17 11:00: Tensor product representations for RNNs / Revisiting post-processing for word embeddings (Shuai Tang, University of California, San Diego) 2019-10-17 11:30: From personalised medicine to decision-making for emergency care: Role of smart devices and analytics (Dr Siddharth Arora (University of Oxford)) 2019-10-17 14:00: What drives the dependence of human germline mutation rates on sex, age, and time?  (Professor Molly Przeworski, Columbia University, New York ) 2019-10-17 14:00: Interaction between humans and with robot (Etienne Burdet, Imperial College London) 2019-10-17 15:00: Asynchrony, Ordering, and Protocols (Amit Chopra (Lancaster University)) 2019-10-17 16:00: Adult CNS progenitors: reversing the ravages of ageing (Robin Franklin, WT-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2019-10-18 12:00: Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough (Lucia Specia (Imperial College London)) 2019-10-18 13:15: Mechanical scaling in blood platelets (François Nédélec Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2019-10-18 14:00: The Evolution of Solutions (Prof Harry Bhadeshia, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge) 2019-10-18 14:00: On the mode of multivariate mixtures — recent developments and open problems (Surajit Ray) 2019-10-18 16:00: Speed of rolling droplets (Ory Schnitzer, Imperial College) 2019-10-21 13:00: JPMorgan Technology Showcase (JP Morgan) 2019-10-22 11:00: AI4ER-CEDSG group meeting (Group Round Table) 2019-10-22 13:00: Quantile QT-Opt for Risk-Aware Vision-Based Robotic Grasping (Cristian Bodnar) 2019-10-22 13:15: Read Less, Learn More: Extracting Key News Themes (Joshua Bambrick, Bloomberg) 2019-10-22 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Michael Rule) 2019-10-23 12:00: Reconfiguration of Accident-and-Emergency Facilities in England (Dr Houyuan Jiang (Cambridge Judge Business School)) 2019-10-23 14:00: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical Models (Vidhi Lalchand) 2019-10-23 14:30: Neural networks to model probability densities in quantum chromodynamics (Zahari Kassabov (High Energy Physics group, Cavendish)) 2019-10-23 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-10-24 11:00: Unsupervised Question Answering (Patrick Lewis, UCL) 2019-10-24 13:00: Model Interpretability (or Why have you sent me another marketing offer?) (Ben Houghton -- Head of Data Science for Barclays Payments) 2019-10-24 13:15: Emotion-aware yet knowledge-driven computer systems. Recent work from the AfCAI group. (Prof. Grzegorz J. 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(Noa Zilberman (Computer Lab)) 2019-11-07 16:00: The amazing world of the GnRH neuron (Allan Herbison, PDN Department, Cambridge) 2019-11-08 11:30: DIAL New Starters Seminar Series 2 (Liming Xu, Hang Zhou, Yasmin Fathy) 2019-11-08 13:00: Cisco: How to break the Internet (Simon Chatterjee) 2019-11-08 13:15: "CAPs in the niche" A new in vivo labelling system reveals parenchymal cells in the lung metastatic niche with stem cell features (Luigi Ombrato The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2019-11-08 14:00: Modelling physiological and pathological glia-neuron interactions in cerebral organoids (Dr Andras Lakatos, MRC Clinician Scientist, Neurologist, Cambridge) 2019-11-08 16:00: Stop-and-go swimmers, splitters, hovercrafts and helicopters: hydrodynamic phenomena in active emulsions (Corinna Maaß, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization) 2019-11-08 16:00: Rule extraction from deep neural nets (Urska Matjasec (University of Ljubljana)) 2019-11-11 13:00: Netcraft: Credit card skimming for fun and profit (Graham Edgecombe) 2019-11-11 18:00: How to Hunt a Submarine (Professor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00) 2019-11-11 19:30: The Next Generation of Children (Professor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge) 2019-11-12 11:00: TBC (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-11-12 11:00: Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes (William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland) 2019-11-12 12:00: Speech Recognition: What’s Left? 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ANNUAL LECTURE (Roger Nicoll, University of California San Francisco) 2019-11-19 10:00: CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations (Adam Lopez (University of Edinburgh)) 2019-11-19 11:00: AI4ER-CEDSG group meeting (Will Tebbutt, AI4ER student) 2019-11-19 11:30: Resilience: Structures of success, failure and influence in publicly funded arts institutions and a volunteer-run social network (Dr Griffith Rees (University of Sheffield)) 2019-11-19 12:00: Finding an Analogy (Aaron Stockdill) 2019-11-19 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang (University of Cambridge)) 2019-11-20 13:00: CamFort: lightweight verification for scientific Fortran (Matthew Danish (University of Cambridge)) 2019-11-20 13:00: Roku: Engineering Smart TVs for fun and profit (Tim Granger) 2019-11-20 14:00: Machine learning and theorem proving (Henryk Michalewski) 2019-11-20 14:00: Neural Attention (Elre Oldewage, George Hron) 2019-11-20 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2019-11-21 11:00: Natural Language Understanding and Generation with Abstract Meaning Representation (Marco Damonte, the University of Edinburgh) 2019-11-21 13:00: A Bayesian Approach to Machine Learning (Fergus Simpson -- PROWLER.io) 2019-11-21 14:00: Learning and retaining tasks in redundant brain circuits (Timothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge) 2019-11-21 14:00: Minimal and Ancestral Genomes (Dr. Arcady Mushegian from National Science Foundation, USA ) 2019-11-21 16:00: Context-specific Wnt Signalling in Embryonic Development and Heart Muscle Differentiation (Stefan Hoppler, University of Aberdeen) 2019-11-22 12:00: Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning (Sebastian Ruder (DeepMind)) 2019-11-22 13:15: Nuclear topology organisation and cell cycle regulation of the first transcription in the embryo (Ferenc Mueller Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham) 2019-11-22 13:30: Photonic-chip-based soliton microcombs (Tobias Kippenberg: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) 2019-11-25 13:00: Mathworks: MATLAB and NVIDIA Docker: A Complete AI Solution, Where You Need It, in an Instant (Dr. Jos Martin, Senior Engineering Manager - 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Some examples in fluid mechanics (Edriss Titi, DAMTP) 2019-12-02 14:00: Data Science: From System Identification to (Deep) Learning and Big Data (Lennart Ljung, Linköping University) 2019-12-02 16:30: The axonal cytoskeleton at the nanoscale (Christophe Leterrier, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, NeuroCyto, Marseille, France) 2019-12-03 11:00: AI4ER-CEDSG group meeting: Machine Learning Approaches to Assessing Future Flood Risk (Robert Rouse) 2019-12-03 13:00: Work in progress: Diving deeper into building distributed representations graphs (Paul Scherer) 2019-12-03 15:00: Gradient-based Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Dr Michalis Titsias, DeepMind) 2019-12-03 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Adriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge)) 2019-12-04 10:00: The Mobile Computing Platform after Smartphones - Prof Romit Roy Choudhury: MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series (Prof Romit Roy Choudhury, UIUC) 2019-12-04 12:30: Artificial Intelligence in Radiology: Where Does It Stand and Where Is It Going? (Ronald M. 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Lessons learnt and challenges ahead. (Professor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London) 2020-01-14 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Torp Jensen) 2020-01-16 11:00: Correlations Between Word Vector Sets (Aleksandar Savkov, Babylon) 2020-01-16 13:00: Representation learning and its applications (Akbir Khan -- Spherical Defense) 2020-01-16 15:00: XOX Fabric: A hybrid approach to blockchain transaction execution (Christian Gorenflo (University of Waterloo)) 2020-01-16 15:00: On the Stability and the Uniform Propagation of Chaos Properties of Ensemble Kalman-Bucy Filters (Prof Pierre Del Moral, INRIA) 2020-01-16 16:00: Mechanics of epithelial migration, growth and folding (Xavier Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia) 2020-01-16 16:15: A small RNA-based innate immune system guards the integrity of germ cell genomes (Professor Greg Hannon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute ) 2020-01-17 11:00: Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG? (Rory Waite (Emotif.ai)) 2020-01-17 13:30: Digital Twins to improve Maintenance and Operations of Buildings (Professor Mohsen A. Jafari, Rutgers University) 2020-01-17 14:00: Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions (Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2020-01-17 14:00: Phase engineered two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for electrochemistry ( Dr Manish Chhowalla Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge) 2020-01-17 14:00: Mathematics can make my medical imaging faster and prettier – but should it? (Mary McLean) 2020-01-17 16:00: Freezing impacts (Christophe Josserand, Ecole Polytechnique) 2020-01-17 17:30: Human Origins (Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster) 2020-01-20 13:00: Diving into Decentralised communication with Matrix.org (Matthew Hodgson, Project Lead) 2020-01-21 12:00: Developing data-driven models to emulate GCM’s (Rachel Furner, University of Cambridge/ British Antarctic Survey) 2020-01-21 13:00: Abstract Diagrammatic Reasoning with Multiplex Graph Networks (Duo Wang) 2020-01-21 13:00: Self-Programming Networks: Applications to Financial Trading Systems (Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford)) 2020-01-21 14:15: Eye gaze controlled interface design for automotive, aviation and assistive products (Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science) 2020-01-22 13:00: Ptycho! Image processing diffraction patterns (Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge)) 2020-01-22 13:00: Optiver: Machine learning in trading: Let’s build a quantitative trading strategy (Dennis Fleurbaaij) 2020-01-23 11:00: Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them (Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy) 2020-01-23 11:30: Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) Beyond Back Propagation (Uwe Naumann, RWTH Aachen University, and NAG Ltd., Oxford, UK) 2020-01-23 13:00: Systematic trading using sentiment analysis data (Matyas Molner) 2020-01-23 14:00: How epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer (Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2020-01-23 14:00: Networks of Nonsmooth Oscillators & Applications in Neuroscience (Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham) 2020-01-23 14:15: Predicting visible flicker in temporally changing images (Gyorgy Denes, University of Cambridge) 2020-01-23 15:00: Information Exposure From Consumer IoT Devices: A Multidimensional Network-Informed Approach (Anna Maria Mandalari (Imperial College)) 2020-01-23 16:00: Skeletal muscle and its role in challenging perceptions of human ageing (Steve Harridge, King's College London) 2020-01-24 11:00: Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift (Zack Lipton, CMU) 2020-01-24 14:00: Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe? (Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University) 2020-01-24 15:00: Deep (Inter-)Active Learning for NLP: Cure-all or Catastrophe? (Zachary Chase Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University) 2020-01-24 16:00: Some implications of self-similarity in canonical wall turbulence (Beverley McKeon, Caltech) 2020-01-24 17:30: Mysteries of Modern Physics (Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech) 2020-01-27 13:00: Cambridge Design Partnership - Think Small: Embedded Software FTW! (Jason Mashinchi, Graduate Software Engineer and Tom Vajzovic, Consultant Software Engineer) 2020-01-27 16:30: The mammalian circadian clock: genes, cells and circuits (Mick Hastings, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Neuroscience) 2020-01-27 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl (Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00) 2020-01-27 19:30: Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders? (Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London) 2020-01-28 13:00: Flexible deep learning for heterogeneous clinical time series (Jacob Deasy) 2020-01-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Simon Schug (University of Cambridge)) 2020-01-28 16:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Simon Schug (University of Cambridge)) 2020-01-29 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2020-01-30 11:00: Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications (Dr Barbara McGillivray (University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute)) 2020-01-30 13:00: Stochastic Filament Dynamics in Tokamaks (Theo Steele) 2020-01-30 14:00: The genome landscape: consequences of repetitive DNA organization and evolution in diploid and polyploid crops (Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester) 2020-01-30 14:00: Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression (Thomas Schön, Uppsala University) 2020-01-30 15:00: Controlling time in networking: from delay-tolerant networking to low-latency networking (Kyunghan Lee (UNIST)) 2020-01-31 13:15: Mechanics and mechanisms of tube morphogenesis (Katja Röper, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2020-01-31 14:00: Hierarchical structuring of micro and nanoparticles for Li-ion battery electrodes (Dr Michael De Volder, IfM, CUED) 2020-01-31 16:00: The control of moist atmospheric processes on weather forecast errors (Suzanne Gray, University of Reading) 2020-01-31 17:30: Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism (Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author) 2020-01-31 17:30: Machine Learning Meetup (Marc Brockschmidt (MSR Cambridge) and Vincent Dutordoir (Prowler)) 2020-02-03 13:00: Amazon Alexa Tech Talk (Paolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge)) 2020-02-03 14:00: What can we see on a high-dynamic range display? (Minjung Kim (University of Cambridge)) 2020-02-03 16:30: Study of sensory "prior distributions" in rodent models of working memory and decision making (Athina Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL) 2020-02-04 12:00: Monitoring the world's volcanoes from space (Prof Andy Hooper, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment) 2020-02-04 13:00: Non-convex Optimisation Using the Polyak-Łojasiewicz Inequality (Edoardo Calvello (Imperial College)) 2020-02-06 11:00: Computational Models of the Influence of Context on Sentence Acceptability (Shalom Lappin, University of Gothenburg) 2020-02-06 11:00: Forward and Inverse models in Human-Computer Interaction: Physical simulation and machine learning for inferring 3D finger pose (Professor Roderick Murray-Smith, University of Glasgow) 2020-02-06 13:00: Decoding Transcriptional Regulation and Kinetics Using Single-Cell Transcriptomics. (Professor Rickard Sandberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) 2020-02-06 13:00: Coping with Data Reality (Arlen Anderson -- Ab Initio Software ) 2020-02-06 14:00: Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports (Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge) 2020-02-06 15:00: The SPHERE project (Ian Craddock (University of Bristol)) 2020-02-06 16:00: Adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics in cell migration and pluripotency (Johanna Ivaska, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland) 2020-02-07 12:00: Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models (Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge)) 2020-02-07 13:15: Repairing DNA damage in developing germ cells (Gerry Crossan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2020-02-07 14:15: Talks by Postdocs (Speaker to be confirmed) 2020-02-07 17:30: Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine (Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer) 2020-02-10 14:00: A phenomenological constitutive theory for polycrystalline ferroelectric ceramics based on orientation distribution functions (Dr Martin I. 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(Gabriele Corso) 2020-12-08 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'PROGRESS in sample size calculations for clinical prediction model research' (Professor Richard Riley, Centre for Prognosis Research, School of Medicine, Keele University) 2020-12-09 14:00: The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computing (Matthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)) 2020-12-14 15:00: Deep learning in medical imaging - successes, pitfalls and challenges (Prof Lena Maier-Hein from DKFZ in Heidelberg ) 2020-12-15 14:00: Virtual Seminar: ‘The DURATIONS design: a practical trial design to optimise treatment duration’ (Dr Matteo Quartagno, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL) 2020-12-15 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Calvin Kao and Marine Schimel) 2020-12-16 11:00: Best of NeurIPS (Speaker to be confirmed) 2020-12-16 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session (Christmas vacation) (Statistics Clinic team) 2020-12-18 09:00: A theory for Hebbian Learning in recurrent E-I networks (Samuel Eckmann (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)) 2020-12-21 19:00: The Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis – Gut Feelings About the Brain (John Cryan, University College Cork, Ireland ) 2021-01-11 19:30: The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black Death (Professor John Robb, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology) 2021-01-12 13:15: Predicting material properties with the help of machine learning (Bingqing Cheng) 2021-01-13 11:00: Meta-reinforcement learning (Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge)) 2021-01-19 13:15: Debugging Machine Learning Code (Svet Penkov, Efemarai) 2021-01-20 11:00: Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits (Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research)) 2021-01-20 14:00: Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity (Dr Elizabeth Soilleux (University of Cambridge)) 2021-01-21 11:00: Towards Perfect Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Translation (Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser, CIS, LMU Munich) 2021-01-21 14:00: Cone subtype specification in human retinal organoids (Dr Robert Johnston, Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) 2021-01-21 14:00: Data-driven control à la Finsler and Yakubovich (Henk van Waarde, University of Cambridge) 2021-01-21 15:00: Let It Rain - Interactive Smart Building Data Visualisations for Real-time Sensor Readings (Justas Brazauskas (CL)) 2021-01-21 16:00: Lineage tracing through somatic mutations in human development (Flora Vaccarino, Yale University) 2021-01-22 12:00: Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification (Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield)) 2021-01-22 14:00: Leading Multiphysics Modeling for AM and Emerging Design Approaches for Impacts ( Prof Claus Pedersen, R&D SIMULIA - Dassault Systèmes) 2021-01-22 17:30: Battle Blood (Dr Claire Roddie, UCL) 2021-01-25 13:05: Optiver: From Instant to Eternity: Challenges in Data Engineering (Zuotian Tatum - Optiver Engineer) 2021-01-25 16:00: Restless engrams: the origin of continually reconfiguring neural representations (Tim O'Leary, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2021-01-25 19:30: Hydrogen: Its Role in the UK Economy (Professor Nigel Brandon, Imperial College London) 2021-01-26 11:00: Quantifying Increased Occupational Heat Exposure of Rice Harvest Workers due to Climate Change (Charles Simpson | British Antarctic Survey) 2021-01-26 13:05: Linaro/96 Boards: Innovation in Autonomous Driving powered by Open Source Heterogeneous Computing Platform (Yang Zhang - Director, 96Boards, Linaro. 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( Professor Richard B. Horne, Head of Space Weather and Atmosphere, British Antarctic Survey.) 2021-03-09 11:00: Probabilistic machine learning as an algorithmic interface to weather model and environmental data (Charlie Kirkwood | University of Exeter) 2021-03-09 13:15: Computational foundations of morphogenomics (Bianca Dumitrascu) 2021-03-09 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jascha Achterberg and Kris Jensen) 2021-03-10 11:00: Causal Representation Learning (Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge) 2021-03-10 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session IV (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-03-10 16:30: The Mechanics of Bioinspired Artificial Intelligence (Prof Markus J. Buehler, McAfee Professor of Engineering, MIT) 2021-03-11 11:00: Achieving Universality in Machine Translation: M4 - Massively Multilingual, Massive MT Models for the Next 1000 Languages (Orhan Firat, Google Research) 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: Rearchitecting Kubernetes for the Edge (Andrew Jeffery, Computer Lab) 2021-03-11 16:00: PP2A-B55 inhibitors Arpp19 and ENSA define the cell cycle program by controlling the temporal pattern of protein phosphorylation (Dr Anna Castro, CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier ) 2021-03-11 16:00: Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval (Chenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research)) 2021-03-12 12:00: 🎈🎈🎈🥳 NLP Social Hour 🥳🎈🎈🎈 (-) 2021-03-12 13:15: Gut induced vascular plasticity drives stem cell adaptation during intestinal regeneration ( Julia Cordero, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow) 2021-03-12 17:30: Blood Sculptures (Mr Marc Quinn, Artist) 2021-03-15 16:00: Adaptive brain computations for perceptual decisions (Zoe Kourtzi, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2021-03-16 11:00: Methods for dealing with sparse and incomplete environmental datasets (Ann Gledson and Doug Lowe | University of Manchester) 2021-03-16 13:05: Cadence Design Systems: Machine Learning in EDA (Andrew Hall) 2021-03-16 13:15: Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning (Qingbiao Li) 2021-03-17 11:00: Gaussian Processes I have Known (Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield) 2021-03-18 11:00: Learning language by observing the world and learning about the world from language (Aida Nematzadeh, DeepMind) 2021-03-18 15:00: DNA for archival storage (Omer Sella, Computer Lab) 2021-03-18 16:00: Memory, learning, and control of cognitive representations (Andre Fenton, New York University) 2021-03-23 11:00: Machine Learning for Weather Prediction (Peter Dueben | ECMWF) 2021-03-23 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud and Marine Schimel) 2021-03-24 00:00: Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty (Professor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science) 2021-03-24 11:00: Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks (Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University) 2021-03-25 14:00: Generalized Nash equilibrium seeking under partial information (Sergio Grammatico, TU Delft) 2021-03-25 15:00: Obstacles to Wearable Computing (Helen Oliver, Computer Lab) 2021-03-26 00:00: G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed (Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy) 2021-03-26 00:00: Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic (Dr Peter Forster, (Cambridge)) 2021-03-26 00:00: LECTURE - title to be confirmed (Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology) 2021-03-29 19:30: CSAR webinar: Innovation - the engine of economic growth (Lord David Sainsbury, University of Cambridge) 2021-03-31 11:00: Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof (Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind) 2021-03-31 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Bayesian pyramids: Identifying interpretable deep structure underlying high-dimensional data’ (Professor David Dunson, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University, USA) 2021-03-31 16:30: Statistics Clinic 2021 Easter Vacation - Skype session (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-04-01 15:00: Towards Grey Fault Tolerant Cloud Systems (Ryan Huang) 2021-04-06 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang and Jonathan So) 2021-04-07 11:00: Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning (James Allingham (University of Cambridge)) 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) 2021-04-08 15:00: Protection, restoration and expansion of the world's woodlands as Nature-based Solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises: how can computer science help? (David Coomes (Plant Sciences)) 2021-04-14 11:00: Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation (Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge)) 2021-04-15 15:00: Understanding the Weaponization of the Web via Data-Driven Analysis (Emiliano De Cristofaro (UCL)) 2021-04-16 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning (Andrew Gordon Wilson) 2021-04-19 17:00: Determining the age of Barrett’s esophagus using stochastic multiscale modeling and epigenetic clocks (Dr Kathleen Curtius from UCSD in San Diego ) 2021-04-19 19:30: CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices (Prof Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London.) 2021-04-20 14:00: Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes (Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin)) 2021-04-21 11:00: An Introduction to PAC-Bayes (Andrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge)) 2021-04-22 15:00: Consumer IoT devices: Privacy Implications and Device Identification (Roman Kolcun, Computer Lab) 2021-04-22 17:00: Transcending Dependencies (Martha Palmer, University of Colorado) 2021-04-27 11:00: Can Federated Learning Save the Planet? (Xinchi Qiu & Nic Lane | University of Cambridge) 2021-04-27 13:15: Predicting outcome for psychotic disorders, using brain connectivity and transcribed speech data (Sarah Morgan) 2021-04-28 13:00: Running the CSC network (Dr Philip Blakely (University of Cambridge)) 2021-04-28 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session I (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-04-29 11:00: Domain Adaptation in NLP - Towards Adaptation to Any Domain (Eyal Ben-David, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) 2021-04-29 13:30: Human Immunity – one cell at a time (Dr Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton) 2021-04-29 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data’ (Kelly Zhang, Harvard University) 2021-04-29 15:00: Examining Raft's behaviour during partial network failures (Chris J. Jensen, Computer Lab) 2021-04-29 16:00: Regulation of stem cell fate by niche-derived factors and forces. (Sara Wickström, University of Helsinki) 2021-04-30 12:00: Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes (Maria Liakata (University of Warwick)) 2021-04-30 14:00: Finite element modelling of hot compression testing of titanium alloys (Dr Patryk Jedrasiak, CUED) 2021-04-30 14:30: Inflight printing of micro/nano fibres: from harvesting acoustic energy to detecting cell movement (Andy Wenyu Wang, CUED) 2021-04-30 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep Learning (Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London) 2021-05-04 13:15: Towards Robust and Reliable Model Explanations (Hima Lakkaraju, Harvard University ) 2021-05-04 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Zahara Girones and Ivan Tomic) 2021-05-05 13:00: Spack: the HPC package manager (Chris Richardson (University of Cambridge)) 2021-05-05 14:00: Finding stationary points on the bounded-rank variety: a geometric hurdle and a smooth workaround (Nicolas Boumal (EPFL)) 2021-05-06 11:00: CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models (Amir Feder, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) 2021-05-06 15:00: Teleoperating Mobile Things (Joerg Ott (TU Munich)) 2021-05-06 16:00: Human time vs. mouse time with recapitulated systems. (Miki Ebisuya, EMBL Barcelona) 2021-05-06 17:00: Genome regulation by ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling and phase-separation (Professor Geeta Narlikar, University of California, San Francisco) 2021-05-07 12:00: Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology (Ryan McDonald (ASAPP)) 2021-05-07 13:15: New roles for Golgi-derived PI(4)P-containing vesicles in mitochondrial division (Julien Prudent, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, Cambridge) 2021-05-07 16:00: Putting 3D Bioprinting to Tissue and Tissue Model Fabrication (Dr Y. Shrike Zhang, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School) 2021-05-10 16:00: Functions of the primate amygdala in decision-making and social cognition (Fabian Grabenhorst, PDN, University of Cambridge) 2021-05-10 19:30: CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics. (Professor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University) 2021-05-11 11:00: Extreme weather events and water security as emerging challenges for global society: How can we use deep machine learning, topological data analysis and causal time series analysis to study weather phenomena in large climate datasets? (Grzegorz Muszynski | British Antarctic Survey) 2021-05-11 13:15: Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Topological: Message Passing Simplicial Networks (Fabrizio Frasca, Yu Guang and Cris Bodnar) 2021-05-12 09:00: CCBI Annual Symposium 2021 (Programme and registration: https://bit.ly/ccbisymp21) 2021-05-12 11:00: Best of ICLR (Speaker to be confirmed) 2021-05-12 13:00: The Multiscale Universal Interface Code Coupling Library (Stephen Longshaw, STFC) 2021-05-12 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session II (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-05-13 13:30: The origin of mitochondrial DNA mutations: population genetics and disease (Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus) 2021-05-13 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Adapting Real-World Experimentation To Balance Enhancement of User Experiences with Statistically Robust Scientific Discovery' (Professor Joseph Jay Williams, University of Toronto ) 2021-05-13 15:00: WLANs above 100 GHz: Mobility, Sensing, and Security (Edward Knightly (Rice)) 2021-05-13 15:00: NLP beyond English and mBERT's 100 languages (Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University) 2021-05-14 12:00: Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks ( Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge)) 2021-05-14 13:15: Human hypothalamic neurons for studying obesity and its relevance to neurodegeneration (Florian Merkle, WT-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge) 2021-05-14 16:00: Robotic Metamaterials: Additive Fabrication for Multi-materials and Multi-functionalities ( Dr Rayne Zheng, UCLA) 2021-05-14 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers (Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind) 2021-05-17 16:00: The social brain in adolescence (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2021-05-18 11:00: How can we ensemble geophysical models better? (Matt Amos | University of Lancaster) 2021-05-18 13:15: Geometric Deep Learning: Grids, Graphs, Groups, Geodesics, and Gauges (Petar Veličković) 2021-05-18 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li) 2021-05-19 13:00: How to Measure, Visualise and Interpret Performance Portability (Dr Tom Deakin (University of Bristol)) 2021-05-20 14:00: Virtual Seminar: 'Probabilistic models of transcriptomic dysregulation in human genetic disease' (Prof David Knowles, Columbia University) 2021-05-20 15:00: iBox: Internet in a Box (Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research) 2021-05-20 15:00: Training for Deployment: Methods for Small and Efficient NLP (Alexander Rush, Cornell Tech) 2021-05-21 12:00: Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP (Johannes Bjerva (Aalborg University)) 2021-05-21 13:15: From Signals to Chromatin: Germ layer specification in mouse (Sebastian Arnold, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Germany) 2021-05-21 14:00: Microstructurally-guided modeling of hard magnetorheological elastomers (Dr Dipayan Mukherjee, CUED) 2021-05-21 14:30: Electrochemo-poromechanical interactions: the case of ionic polymer metal composites (Alessandro Leronni, CUED) 2021-05-24 15:00: Engineering model-based systems to monitor and steer subclonal dynamics (Dr Noemi Andor, Moffitt Cancer Center) 2021-05-24 19:30: 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) 2021-05-25 11:00: Using deep learning for precipitation nowcasting applications (Claire Bartholomew | Met Office) 2021-05-26 13:00: Full-stack CFD on AWS (Dr Nandan Gokhale (University of Cambridge)) 2021-05-26 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session III (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-05-27 11:00: Learning across Adverse Conditions in Natural Language Processing (Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen) 2021-05-27 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: 'Confidence intervals for policy evaluation in adaptive experiments’ (Dr Vitor Hadad, Stanford University) 2021-05-27 15:00: Mapping Mobile Broadband Access (Ellen Zegura, Georgia Tech) 2021-05-27 17:00: Telomere-to-Telomere Chromosome Assemblies: New Insights Into Genome Biology & Structure (Dr Karen Miga from Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz) 2021-05-28 13:00: Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision (Shuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University)) 2021-05-28 13:15: Exploiting divergent biology of two fission yeasts to understand membrane function (Snezhana Oliferenko, The Francis Crick Institute) 2021-05-28 14:00: Linear and nonlinear inverse problems in imaging ( Dr Leslie Greengar, New York University) 2021-06-01 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Mate Lengyel and Jasmine Stone) 2021-06-02 11:00: The Statistical Finite Element Method (Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge)) 2021-06-03 10:00: Capacity and errors in classification of object manifolds (Uri Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2021-06-03 15:00: Network Function Virtualization and its Application to Improve the Architecture and Protocols of Future Cellular Networks (K. K. Ramakrishnan, UC Riverside) 2021-06-04 13:15: CANCELLED: Replication control during the cell cycle and development (Philip Zegerman, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge) 2021-06-04 14:00: Elastocapillary singularities in creasing & wetting ( Dr Jacco Snoeijer) 2021-06-04 14:00: Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True (Philip Resnik (University of Maryland)) 2021-06-04 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class. (David Duvenaud, University of Toronto) 2021-06-07 19:30: CSAR webinar: Asteroids, comets and impacts: should we worry? (Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) 2021-06-08 11:00: The link between the global carbon cycle and the interplay between calcium and sulfur in marine pore fluid (Hal Bradbury | University of Cambridge) 2021-06-08 13:15: Structure-aware generation of molecules in protein pockets (Pavol Drotar) 2021-06-09 11:00: Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge)) 2021-06-09 13:00: Ripple: A C++ cross-GPU optimizing framework (Robert Clucas (University of Cambridge)) 2021-06-09 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session IV (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-06-10 15:00: Leveraging over-provisioned WANs for next-generation services (Rachee Singh) 2021-06-10 17:00: Towards Knowledge-Robust and Multimodally-Grounded NLP (Mohit Bansal, UNC Chapel Hill) 2021-06-11 13:00: Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems (Mohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst)) 2021-06-11 13:15: Genetic and developmental basis of morphological variation in cichlid fishes (Emília Santos, Dept. of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2021-06-11 14:00: A New Approach for 3D hydrogel printing; and a Study of Single-Cell Microfibre Interaction Dynamics (Duo Zhang, CUED) 2021-06-11 14:30: Mechanics, Additive Manufacture, and Characterisation of Lattice Biostructures (Faezeh Shalchy, CUED) 2021-06-11 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez (Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University) 2021-06-11 16:00: Nonlinear interaction of the self-sustaining process in the near-wall region of wall-bounded turbulence (Jane Bae, Harvard University, USA) 2021-06-11 16:30: Freezing a rivulet (Axel Huerre, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes (MSC), Université de Paris) 2021-06-15 13:15: Unlocking Deep Learning for Graphs (Dominique Beaini, Valence Discovery, MILA, Canada) 2021-06-15 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yashar Ahmadian and Wayne Soo) 2021-06-17 14:00: Graphical Nonlinear System Analysis (Tom Chaffey, University of Cambridge) 2021-06-18 12:00: NMT Analysis: The Trade-Off Between Source and Target, and (a Bit of) the Training Process (Elena Voita (University of Edinburgh)) 2021-06-18 16:00: Very-large scale motions in the atmospheric surface layer (Guohua Wang, Lanzhou University, China) 2021-06-18 16:30: Concluding remarks and some open problems (Keith Moffatt, Cambridge University, UK) 2021-06-21 19:30: CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition. (Professor Michael de Volder, University of Cambridge) 2021-06-22 11:00: Machine Learning Approaches to Assessing Future Flood & Storm Risk (Robert Rouse | University of Cambridge) 2021-06-23 13:00: National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences: Computational Modelling Services (Grenville Lister, NCAS) 2021-06-23 13:00: Cambridge-Turing sessions: collaborative data science and AI research (Multiple speakers) 2021-06-24 14:00: Spiking Control Systems (Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge) 2021-06-24 15:00: Internet Transparency (Katerina Argyraki, EPFL) 2021-06-29 12:30: Lunchtime Talk: The potential for AI in the study of Southern Ocean Clouds (Floortje Van Den Heuvel | British Antarctic Survey) 2021-06-29 13:00: Generative model-based super resolution and quality control for cardiac segmentation (Shuo Wang (Digital Medicine Research Centre, Fudan University)) 2021-06-29 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Jensen and Georgia Turner) 2021-07-01 14:00: Combining two mechanisms to produce neural firing rate homeostasis (Paul Miller, Brandeis University) 2021-07-02 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal Pfister (Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) 2021-07-06 18:00: CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap (Speakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge.) 2021-07-08 15:00: Unsafe at Any Speed? Self-Driving Networks without Self-Crashing Networks (Jeff Mogul, Google) 2021-07-09 16:00: CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina Savin (Cristina Savin, New York University) 2021-07-14 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session I (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-07-15 15:00: Hey, you got your distributed algorithm in my ML! (Tim Harris, Microsoft) 2021-07-27 13:00: Testing breast cancer mammography screening artificial intelligence algorithms using the Cambridge Cohort database; study design, methods and statistical analysis (Dr. Sarah Hickman) 2021-07-30 13:15: Revisiting MANETs in 2021 (Marco Caballero (University of Cambridge)) 2021-07-30 16:00: Machine Learning and Finite Elements (Prof. Mark Girolami) 2021-08-04 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session II (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-08-05 14:00: Closing The Gap Between Theory and Experiments in The Design of Biomolecular Feedback Circuits (Noah Olsman, Harvard University) 2021-09-01 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session III (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-09-14 09:30: BSU Virtual Seminar: “Estimating treatment effects from adaptive clinical trials” (Prof Ian Marschner, University of Sydney) 2021-09-22 12:30: Uncertainty Quantification of Inclusion Boundaries in the Context of X-ray Tomography (Babak Maboudi Afkham (Technical University of Denmark)) 2021-09-22 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session IV (Statistics Clinic team) 2021-09-24 14:00: Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models (Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt) 2021-09-28 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Marine Schimel and David Liu) 2021-09-29 14:00: Advances in Neural Processes (Prof. Richard Turner.) 2021-10-01 16:00: Topological Origin of Certain Fluid and Plasma Waves (Brad Marston, Brown University, USA) 2021-10-04 09:30: Artificial intelligence for prediction of genetic alterations directly from histology images (Prof Jakob Kather is a physician/scientist and assistant professor at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) with additional affiliations at the NCT Heidelberg (Germany) and the University of Leeds (UK). ) 2021-10-07 13:30: Evolutionary strata on young mating-type chromosomes despite the lack of sexual antagonism. (Professor Tatiana Giraud, Departement Genetique et Ecologie Evolutives, Université Paris-Saclay) 2021-10-07 15:00: Edge network opens the door of heterogeneous network federation (Yuchao Zhang, BUPT and Cambridge) 2021-10-08 14:00: The Statistical Finite Element Method (Prof Mark A Girolami, Div D, CUED) 2021-10-08 16:00: Consititutive modelling of time-dependent flows in frictional suspensions (Mike Cates, DAMTP) 2021-10-11 13:05: GSA Capital: Staying Competitive (Joris Peeters, PhD in Applied Physics) 2021-10-11 16:15: Neuronal heterogeneity and plasticity in the olfactory bulb (Elisa Galliano (University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-11 18:30: Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe (Professor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath ) 2021-10-12 13:05: TechWolf: JobBERT: Understanding Job Titles through Skills (Jens-Joris Decorte) 2021-10-12 13:15: 3D Pre-training improves GNNs for Molecular Property Prediction (Hannes Stark, TU Munich) 2021-10-12 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen) 2021-10-13 14:00: Understanding DNA Replication with Nanopore Sequencing, Deep Learning, and Mathematical Modelling (Dr. Michael A. Boemo (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge) ) 2021-10-14 13:00: Understand and tune application-level GPU performance using NVIDIA Nsight Systems (Filippo Spiga, NVIDIA) 2021-10-14 13:30: Coping with Mechanical Stress: Tissue dynamics in development and repair (Dr Yanlan Mao, MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology, University College London) 2021-10-14 14:00: Unlikelihood-training and Back-training for robust natural language understanding (Siva Reddy, McGill University) 2021-10-14 15:00: Why is Zoom so much more popular than standards-based videoconferencing? (Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University) 2021-10-15 12:00: Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners (Ryo Nagata (Konan University)) 2021-10-15 13:15: Building the human lungs: lessons from organoids (Dr Emma Rawlins (University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-15 14:00: Real Time Optical Probes of Phase Transitions in Nanoscale Materials ( Dr Akshay Rao, Cavendish Laboratory, Physics, Cambridge) 2021-10-15 16:00: Urban trees: how do they affect air quality? (Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London) 2021-10-18 13:05: IMC Trading: Trading, A Story Of Reddit And Nanoseconds (Pierre Bashshour) 2021-10-18 16:15: Synchrony and synaptic signaling in the cerebellar circuit (Indira Raman, Dept Neurobiology, Northwestern Univ, Evanston IL) 2021-10-18 19:30: The Productivity Puzzle (Professor Diane Coyle, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge) 2021-10-19 13:05: BigPay: Event Based Architecture at BigPay (Alex Wiles) 2021-10-20 11:00: Planning Meeting + PI Presentations (CBL and Computer Lab PIs) 2021-10-20 14:00: Computational Oncology at AstraZeneca (Ben Sidders (AstraZeneca)) 2021-10-20 14:00: Three-point bounds for sphere packing (David de Laat (Delft)) 2021-10-20 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2021-10-21 10:00: Cambridge-Turing sessions reloaded: collaborative data science and AI research (Multiple speakers (see programme for details)) 2021-10-21 13:00: POSTPONED - Improving models of ocean turbulence with data-driven methods (Sam Lewin ( Research Software Engineering, University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-21 14:00: Bacterial condensates under stress (Professor Stephanie Weber, McGill University, Montreal) 2021-10-21 15:00: Programmable data plane (Minlan Yu, Harvard and Google) 2021-10-21 15:00: Causal analysis of the syntactic representations of Transformers (Tal Linzen, New York University) 2021-10-21 16:00: Cystic Fibrosis: From Gene to Precision Medicines (David Sheppard, Bristol University) 2021-10-22 12:00: Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems (Marjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)) 2021-10-22 13:15: A finger on the pulse of regeneration (Mekayla Storer, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge) 2021-10-22 14:00: Mechanically Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators (Dr Morgan Barnes, CUED) 2021-10-22 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: “Methodological Advances in Risk Prediction" (Dr Glen Martin, University of Manchester) 2021-10-22 14:30: Crack dynamics simulations in wood and other heterogeneous materials (Dr Jenny Carlsson, CUED) 2021-10-22 16:00: Are confluent cell layers extensile or contractile? (Julia Yeomans, Department of Physics, University of Oxford) 2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-25 16:15: Reading the (neu)runes: methods for analysing large population recordings, and applications to motor control (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-25 18:30: A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain (Professor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience ) 2021-10-26 11:00: Scaling land-atmosphere fluxes from sites to globe: Overview and synthesis of the FLUXCOM approach (Dr Martin Jung | Max Planck Institute of Biogeochemistry) 2021-10-26 13:05: Jane Street: OCaml and Python; Getting the Best of Both Worlds (Laurent Mazare, Quantitative Researcher, Jane Street) 2021-10-26 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yul Kang and Wayne Soo) 2021-10-27 11:00: Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning ( Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research)) 2021-10-27 13:00: Genome-wide Association Analysis of Blood Smear Imaging Phenotypes (Chuoxin Ma) 2021-10-27 14:00: Buffering genetic variation in populations (Dr. Ritwick Sawarkar (MRC Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-28 11:00: Measuring Factuality in Text Generation: When Language Models Are Twisting the Facts (Roee Aharoni, Google Research) 2021-10-28 13:00: Improving models of ocean turbulence with data-driven methods (Sam Lewin (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)) 2021-10-28 15:00: Cloud-native data systems for the post-Moore era (Jana Giceva, TU Munich) 2021-10-29 13:15: Wnt gradients: how they form and their role in tissue morphogenesis (Ian McGough, Babraham Institute, Cambridge) 2021-10-29 14:00: Harnessing helpful heterogeneity in healing at the humeral head: The mechanics of the rotator cuff and its surgical repair (Prof. Guy M Genin, Co-Director, NSF Science and Technology Centre for Engineering MechanoBiology Washington University in St Louis) 2021-10-29 14:00: Cambridge Ellis Unit Seminar Series- Dr Neil Houlsby- Learning general visual representations: data, scaling laws, and fewer convolutions (Speaker to be confirmed) 2021-10-29 16:00: Fluid-mechanical models of ice-sheet sliding and dynamics (Ian Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford) 2021-11-01 16:15: Using the marmoset prefontal cortex to understand psychiatric symptoms: schizophrenia and hippocampal-prefrontal circuitry (Dr Hannah Clarke - BCNI ( Departmn)) 2021-11-01 19:30: The Pye Story: The history of one of Cambridge’s iconic technology companies. (Dr. Bob Bates, The Pye Foundation) 2021-11-02 10:00: Virtual BSU seminar: "NanoSplicer: Accurate identification of splice junctions using Oxford Nanopore sequencing" (Dr Heejung Shim, Melbourne Integrative Genomics (MIG), University of Melbourne) 2021-11-02 11:00: Nature risk, restoration and capital allocation: How using data, ML & AI to understand and measure the value of natural capital for investors can positively influence the world around us - at scale (NatureAlpha) 2021-11-03 11:00: Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML (Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-03 13:05: Cisco: Saving the world, one handset at a time (Simon Chatterjee) 2021-11-03 14:00: A multidimensional perspective on immune-mediated diseases: using genetic feature engineering to study shared risk factors in a reduced dimension space (Guillermo Reales (Dept. of Medicine, University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-03 14:00: Coordinate Descent on the Orthogonal Group for Recurrent Neural Network Training (Estelle Massart (Oxford)) 2021-11-03 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2021-11-03 18:30: Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics? 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(Pietro Cicuta, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2021-11-15 13:05: TNG Technology Consulting: Where Am I and What's That? - SLAM (Daniel Pape) 2021-11-15 16:15: Striatal circuits for learning and decision making (Ilana Witten) 2021-11-15 19:30: Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences (Dr. Kenji Takeda, Director of Academic Health and AI Partnerships, Microsoft Research, Cambridge) 2021-11-16 10:00: MAGNATM, a novel single molecule platform to analyze genetic variation and epigenetic modifications on native RNA and DNA molecules (Dr Jimmy Ouellet, Depixus SAS) 2021-11-16 11:00: Whales from space: Using very high resolution satellite images to study whales (Hannah Cubaynes (University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-16 13:15: Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Cellular: CW Networks (Cristian Bodnar (University of Cambridge) and Fabrizio Frasca (Imperial College, Twitter)) 2021-11-17 11:00: Deep Kernels (Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-17 13:00: Deep Learning Enables Prostate MRI Segmentation and Cancer Classification (Yongkai Liu, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA) 2021-11-17 14:00: Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination (Michele Vendruscolo (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-17 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2021-11-18 14:00: Inspecting the early secretory pathway with whole-cell, volumetric FIB-SEM in fed and starved cells (Professor Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA) 2021-11-18 14:00: Modeling human sensorimotor control for better control of surgical robots (Prof. Ilana Nisky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Cambridge) 2021-11-18 14:00: Designed and trained fuzzy logic systems: an interpretable machine learning tool (Samuel Morillas Gómez, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) 2021-11-18 15:00: AnyOpt: Predicting and Optimizing IP Anycast Performance (David Choffnes, Northeastern University) 2021-11-18 15:00: Supervising Robot Learning with Language and Video from the Web (Suraj Nair, Stanford University) 2021-11-18 16:00: Nutrient sensing in the gut-brain-pancreatic axis (Fiona Gribble, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge) 2021-11-19 12:00: Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points (Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh)) 2021-11-19 13:15: Asymmetric nuclear division in neural stem cells generates sibling nuclei that differ in size, envelope composition, and chromatin organization (Chantal Roubinet, Postdoctoral Fellow Buzz Baum Lab, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2021-11-19 14:00: Learning based multiscale modeling (Dr Burigede Liu, CUED) 2021-11-22 16:15: Striatal circuits for learning and decision making (Ilana Witten) 2021-11-22 18:30: The Biology of Eating (Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine) 2021-11-23 11:00: Can machine learning help us track carbon dynamics in tropical forests? (Toby Jackson (University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-23 12:00: BSU virtual seminar: "Assessing batch effects and their implications in single cell RNA sequencing experiments" (Prof Sarah Langley, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, NTU, Singapore) 2021-11-23 13:05: Bloomberg: Apache Cassandra: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (Paulo Motta, Apache Cassandra PMC member & committer) 2021-11-23 13:15: Learning on Graphs with Missing Node Features (Emanuele Rossi, Twitter & Imperial College) 2021-11-23 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Georgia Turner and Falvia Mancini) 2021-11-24 14:00: An Introduction to Machine Learning in AstraZeneca (Domingo Salazar (AstraZeneca)) 2021-11-25 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Henk van Waarde, ETH Zurich) 2021-11-25 15:00: Automerge: A New Foundation for Collaboration Software (Martin Kleppmann, Cambridge) 2021-11-25 15:00: Clinical De-Identification and Semantic Relatedness (Mohamed Abdalla, University of Toronto) 2021-11-25 16:00: Imaging inflammation and wound repair in situ ( Prof. Anna Huttenlocher, University of Wisconsin) 2021-11-26 12:00: Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints (Vlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam)) 2021-11-26 14:00: Forward and inverse homogenization of cellular metamaterials ( Prof Dennis Kochman, ETH Zürich) 2021-11-26 14:00: Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cells (Simon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) 2021-11-26 16:00: Reflections on the Geodynamo (Peter Davidson, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2021-11-29 16:15: Emergence of organization and computation in neural circuits (Julijana Gjorgjieva (University of Cambridge)) 2021-11-29 19:30: Early detection of cancer: learning from the oesophagus, or how long is a piece of string? (Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Interim Director at the MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge) 2021-11-30 13:15: An Introduction to Federated Learning and its Applications in Medicine (Blaise Thomson, Bitfount) 2021-11-30 16:00: Wildfire Smoke Plume Segmentation Using Geostationary Satellite Imagery (Jeff Wen | Stanford University) 2021-12-01 11:00: Energy-Based Models (Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge)) 2021-12-01 13:05: Ab Initio: Traversing the abstraction layers: an introduction to graph programming (Jonathan Sunderland ) 2021-12-01 14:00: Deep Denoising for Scientific Discovery (Carlos Fernandez-Granda (NYU)) 2021-12-01 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2021-12-02 11:00: Zero-shot learning and out-of-distribution generalization: two sides of the same coin (Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University) 2021-12-02 14:00: Towards a Theory of Energy Conversion (Prof. Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen) 2021-12-02 15:00: Making the Most of Massive Clusters (Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Stanford) 2021-12-02 16:00: What the ancient reptilian brain tells the modern visual cortex (Riccardo Beltramo, PDN, Cambridge) 2021-12-03 12:00: CANCELLED (Lotty Brand (University of Sheffield) ) 2021-12-03 14:00: Shape-shifting assemblies in cutting and dividing cells (Dr Andela Šarić, UCL) 2021-12-03 16:00: Prediction of drag for rough wall boundary layer flows (Karen Flack, US Naval Academy) 2021-12-06 14:00: Mending broken hearts with neural crest cells (Professor Marianne Bronner, California Institute of Technology) 2021-12-06 18:00: How does the brain figure out the structure of problems? (Tim Behrens, University of Oxford) 2021-12-07 11:00: Lessons from IceNet: Input variable importance, hyperparameter tuning, and probability calibration (Tom Andersson (British Antarctic Survey)) 2021-12-07 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Daniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern) 2021-12-08 13:00: Equivariant Imaging: Unsupervised Learning in Inverse Problems (Dongdong Chen, University of Edinburgh) 2021-12-09 09:00: Contraction and Convexity, Robustness and Regularisation (Prof. Ian Manchester, University of Sydney) 2021-12-09 16:00: Physiological Society Lecture and event - Unveiling plaque for Lord Adrian (Speaker to be confirmed) 2021-12-15 11:00: [Cancelled] Best of Neurips (Speaker to be confirmed) 2021-12-15 13:00: Software and Data Commercialisation for University Researchers (Speakers from Cambridge Enterprise) 2021-12-15 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-01-12 11:00: AI Safety (Neel Alex) 2022-01-13 15:00: Towards Performant Networking from Low-Earth Orbit (Debopam Bhattacherjee, ETH Zürich) 2022-01-19 11:00: Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models (Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge)) 2022-01-19 14:00: Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity (Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCPath, PGDipMedEd University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology, University of Cambridge) 2022-01-20 15:00: Assertions for Distributed Systems (Aurojit Panda, NYU) 2022-01-20 16:00: CANCELLED: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion (Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris) 2022-01-21 12:00: Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP (Nedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge)) 2022-01-21 14:00: Mechanical metamaterials: Does toughness characterise fracture? (Dr Angkur Jyoti Dipanka Shaikeea, Ashby Fellow, CUED) 2022-01-21 16:00: Indoor airborne disease transmission: fluid dynamical modelling and mitigation strategies (Rajesh Bhagat, DAMTP) 2022-01-21 17:30: Food and Climate Change (Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York) 2022-01-24 19:30: Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics (Dr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab) 2022-01-25 13:15: Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI (Alex Davies and Petar Velickovic (DeepMind)) 2022-01-25 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel) 2022-01-26 13:00: Deep Learning for Inverse Problems in Medical Imaging (Chen Qin, University of Edinburgh) 2022-01-26 14:00: Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis (Dr Jim Denholm, Postdoctoral visitor Dept. 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(Dr Johannes Köster, Institute of Human Genetics, University of Duisburg-Essen) 2022-02-03 15:00: Health Monitoring with Wireless Sensors and Machine Learning (Bruce Maggs, Duke University and Emerald Innovations) 2022-02-03 16:00: Unraveling the mysteries of the human placenta using ‘omics tools (Wendy Robinson, University ofi British Columbia) 2022-02-04 12:00: When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle that shapes the lexicon (Gemma Boleda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)) 2022-02-04 13:15: Cell surface fluctuations regulate early embryonic lineage sorting (Kevin Chalut, Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2022-02-04 14:00: Biofabrication techniques for vascular graft and network ( Dr Alex Justin ) 2022-02-04 14:30: Designing vascular networks for tissue engineering (Andrew Guy) 2022-02-04 16:00: Engineering interfacial flows and instabilities in solidifying liquids (Pierre-Thomas Brun, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University) 2022-02-04 17:30: Food, Power and Society (Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA) 2022-02-07 16:15: Neural control of innate behaviors and internal states (David J Anderson, Calthech, Pasadena, CA) 2022-02-07 19:30: Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations. (Prof. Giles E. D. Oldroyd, FRS, Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-08 13:15: Adaptive Gaussian Processes on Graphs via Spectral Graph Wavelets (Felix Opolka) 2022-02-08 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud and Michal Wojcik) 2022-02-09 11:00: Optimal Transport Metrics (Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-09 14:00: Drug Discovery in the era of large-scale genetics and genomics data (Philippe Sanseau (Glaxo SmithKline)) 2022-02-09 14:00: On the Sample Complexity of Learning with Geometric Stability (Alberto Bietti (NYU)) 2022-02-09 14:00: Cambridge Ellis Unit Seminar Series - Dr Cheng Zhang- 9 February 2022- 2pm (Dr Cheng Zhang) 2022-02-09 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-02-10 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: "A flexible sensitivity analysis for sample selection bias" (Matt Tudball, University of Bristol) 2022-02-10 15:00: Perception-Driven Optimization: A New Frontier for Scaling Internet Applications (Junchen Jiang, University of Chicago) 2022-02-10 15:00: Learning the Difference that Makes a Difference with Counterfactually Augmented Data (Zachary Lipton, Carnegie Mellon University) 2022-02-11 13:15: Signalling dynamics of neutrophil migration at sites of tissue damage (Milka Sarris, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-11 14:00: Exploding, weeping and reversible phase transformations in ceramics (Prof Richard James, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics, University of Minnesota) 2022-02-11 16:00: Nonuniform mixing: filters, swimmers, and floaters (Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin) 2022-02-11 17:30: X-rays and Food Safety (Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-13 18:30: Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-02-14 16:15: Control limited perceptual decision making (Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal) 2022-02-14 18:30: Should we Automate? (Professor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering) 2022-02-15 13:15: Neural Sheaf Diffusion: A Topological Perspective on Heterophily and Oversmoothing in GNNs (Cris Bodnar) 2022-02-16 11:00: Circuits and Interpretability (Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge)) 2022-02-16 14:00: Seeing the unseen: informatic approaches to find, characterise and drug conserved regions of nucleic acid in RNA viruses (Jordan Skittrall (Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge)) 2022-02-17 11:00: Systematic Inequalities in Language Technology Performance across the World's Languages (Graham Neubig, Carnegie Mellon University) 2022-02-17 14:00: Saddle-point dynamics, non-expansive semiflows, and necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence (Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge)) 2022-02-17 15:00: Networked Systems in the Era of Programmable Dataplanes (Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington) 2022-02-18 12:00: [POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases (Sebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL)) 2022-02-18 13:15: In vivo exploration of biomolecular condensates in early Drosophila development (Tim Weil, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-18 14:00: A phase-field model for ferroelectrics with general kinetics (Prof Laurent Guin, Solid Mechanics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique) 2022-02-18 16:00: Verifying global stability of fluid flows despite transient growth of energy (David Goluskin, University of Victoria) 2022-02-18 17:30: Food as Expression (Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef) 2022-02-21 16:15: Neurodegeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model (Andras Lakatos, Dept of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge) 2022-02-21 19:30: A Cambridge vaccine, targeting SARS-CoV-2 variants and related Coronaviruses (Professor Jonathan Heeney, Lab of Viral Zoonotics, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-22 11:00: Multi-year drought storylines for Europe and North America from an iteratively perturbed global climate model (Claudia Gessner, ETH Zurich) 2022-02-22 13:05: Huawei: Rethinking memory subsystem design (Artemiy Margaritov) 2022-02-22 13:15: POSTPONED till next week!!!! 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Kamal, E. Kruger, F. Paolo Conto, J. Chui - DAMTP) 2022-02-25 17:30: Food and Cultural History (Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge) 2022-02-28 14:00: Accelerating drug discovery with the power of microscopy & AI (Anne E Carpenter, PhD, Senior Director of the Imaging Platform, Institute Scientist, Broad Institute ) 2022-02-28 18:30: Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic (Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre) 2022-03-01 15:00: Robust estimation of structural similarity networks in the brain. (Isaac Sebenius) 2022-03-02 13:05: Poly AI: Architecting Human-Sounding Voice Assistants (Razvan Kusztos ) 2022-03-02 14:00: Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents (Elizabeth Murchison) 2022-03-03 11:00: Learning-based control of soft robots (Thomas George-Thuruthel, University of Cambridge) 2022-03-03 14:00: Exploring host-tumour metabolic interactions using Drosophila (Dr Susumu Hirabayashi, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences, Imperial College London) 2022-03-03 15:00: Software as a Network (Brighten Godfrey, UIUC and VMware) 2022-03-03 15:00: Spoken Language Understanding, with and without Pre-training (Karen Livescu, TTI-Chicago) 2022-03-04 12:00: Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis (Caroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge)) 2022-03-04 13:15: Coordinating cell fate decisions and tissue shape changes during mammalian development (Marta Shahbazi, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2022-03-04 14:00: Complexes and conservation: constructing numerical methods for physical systems (Prof Garth Wells, Hibbit Professor of Solid Mechanics, CUED) 2022-03-04 16:00: Unsteadiness of Shock Wave / Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions (Noel Clemens, University of Texas at Austin) 2022-03-04 17:30: Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past (Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge) 2022-03-07 16:15: Inhibitory control of dopaminergic neurons - dendrites, soma and axons (Zayd Khaliq, NINDS/NIH, Bethesda, MD) 2022-03-07 19:30: Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos. (Professor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham) 2022-03-08 11:00: Causal networks for climate model evaluation (Peer Nowack, University of East Anglia) 2022-03-08 13:05: TNG Technology Consulting: Microservices for Smarter Home Appliances (Dr. Tobias Tennstädt, Senior Consultant and Niklas Eicker, Software Consultant) 2022-03-08 13:15: Work in progress: Making efficient use of language models for theorem proving (Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge)) 2022-03-08 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Flavia Mancini and Finn Ashley) 2022-03-09 11:00: Introduction to differential privacy (Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge)) 2022-03-09 13:00: Deep learning in Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Surveillance (Xu Chen (University of Cambridge)) 2022-03-09 14:00: Model free Deep Hedging (Josef Teichmann (ETH Zurich)) 2022-03-09 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-03-10 11:00: IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages (Emanuele Bugliarello, University of Copenhagen) 2022-03-10 14:00: Mechanics of blastocyst morphogenesis (Dr Jean-Léon Maître, Institut Curie, Paris) 2022-03-10 14:00: Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts (Bart Besselink, University of Groningen) 2022-03-10 15:00: Towards Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Hyper-giants (Vaibhav Bajpai, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security,) 2022-03-10 16:00: Regulation of bi-layered epithelial architecture: Insights from developing zebrafish ( Mahendra Sonawane, TIFR Mumbai) 2022-03-10 16:00: Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach (Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon) 2022-03-11 12:00: Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate (Nate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace)) 2022-03-11 13:15: Mechanisms of organismal stress resistance in C. elegans (Rebecca Taylor, Neurobiology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2022-03-11 14:00: Mechanically-instructive Scaffolds to Steer Tissue Regeneration: Merging Mechaniobiology with Biofabrication ( Prof Lorenzo Moroni, MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine, Complex Tissue Regeneration Department. Maastricht University) 2022-03-11 16:00: Control, coordination, and computation in ciliated critters (Kirsty Wan, University of Exeter) 2022-03-11 17:30: The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security (Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge) 2022-03-14 16:15: Striatal circuits underlying sensorimotor functions (Gilad Silberberg, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) 2022-03-14 18:30: Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change? (Professor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing ) 2022-03-15 13:15: Machine learning as an assay for high-dimensional biology (Sara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA) 2022-03-16 11:00: The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI (Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project) 2022-03-17 11:00: Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU (Milan Gritta, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab) 2022-03-17 15:00: AI and Big Data for Social Good: From Covid Infection Study to Drug Repurposing for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease (Jacqueline Lam and Victor Li, University of Hong Kong) 2022-03-17 16:00: Development of interneurons in visual cortex (Renata Batista-Brito, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY) 2022-03-18 09:00: Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting (Organised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan) 2022-03-18 12:00: Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking (Nicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface)) 2022-03-18 13:15: Cellular mechanisms of embryonic development and embryo-maternal interactions during implantation (Ivan Bedzhov, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany) 2022-03-18 14:00: blblblb (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-03-18 16:00: Bifurcations and control of bubbles in Hele-Shaw channels (Alice Thompson, University of Manchester) 2022-03-21 19:30: CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discovery (Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Physical Chemistry and Biophysics, U. of Cambridge) 2022-03-23 11:00: An Overview of AI Alignment (Neel Alex, University of Cambridge) 2022-03-24 14:00: Advanced Sliding Mode Control (Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia) 2022-03-24 15:00: Internet Traffic Analysis at Scale (Anja Feldmann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics) 2022-03-24 16:00: Cell migration in gut homeostasis and cancer invasion (Danijela Matic Vignjevic, Curie Institute, Paris) 2022-03-28 14:00: Causality, Perturbations, Gene Regulation, and Drug Repurposing (Caroline Uhler, Co-Director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) 2022-03-28 18:30: G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids (Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP) 2022-03-30 11:00: Autoregressive Diffusion Models (Emiel Hoogeboom) 2022-03-30 14:00: Cambridge Ellis Unit Seminar Series - Dr Silvia Chiappa- Asymptotically Best Causal Effect Identification with Multi-Armed Bandits (Dr Silvia Chiappa) 2022-03-30 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-03-31 14:00: Cybergenetics: A control theory for living cells (Corentin Briat, ETH-Zürich) 2022-03-31 15:00: Quantum Algorithms for X (Subhayan Roy Moulik, UC Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics) 2022-04-05 11:00: Stochastic Parameterizations: Better Modelling of Temporal Correlations using ML (Raghul Parthipan, University of Cambridge) 2022-04-05 13:30: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (David Liu and Edward Young) 2022-04-07 15:00: Quantum Algorithms for X (Subhayan Roy Moulik, UC Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics) 2022-04-07 16:00: Cochlear implants for deafness: how cochlear anatomy interacts with implant function (Manohar Bance, University of Cambridge) 2022-04-14 14:00: Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordination (Praneeth Namburi, MIT) 2022-04-14 15:00: Quantum Algorithms for X (Subhayan Roy Moulik, UC Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics) 2022-04-20 11:00: Machine Learning with Quantum Computers (Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld) 2022-04-20 16:00: Global Views of Mammalian Development (Jay Shendure, University of Washington) 2022-04-21 11:00: Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination (University of Cambridge) 2022-04-21 14:00: Cambridge Ellis Seminar Series- Dr. Hana Chockler-Actual Causality, Explanations, and Fairness (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-04-21 14:00: Passivity, Monotonicity, and Network Optimization: New Perspectives for Network Systems Analysis (Daniel Zelazo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) 2022-04-21 15:00: Quantum Algorithms for X (Subhayan Roy Moulik, UC Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics) 2022-04-25 14:00: Drug response and tolerance in normal and cancer cells (Klaas Mulder, Molecular Developmental Biology, Radboud University) 2022-04-25 16:15: Cell-type-specific vulnerability, degeneration and repair in a novel human organoid neuraxis model (András Lakatos, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2022-04-26 11:00: The Overlooked Perspectives of Environmental and Population Health Studies: A Balance between Data and Science (Jason Sun, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2022-04-26 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Sparse Hamiltonian Flows (or: Bayesian Coresets Without all the Fuss)" (Prof Trevor Campbell, The University of British Columbia ) 2022-04-27 16:00: Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution (Stefano Ermon (Stanford University)) 2022-04-27 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-04-28 14:00: On Minimax Adaptive Control (Anders Rantzer, Lund University) 2022-04-28 15:00: Quantum Algorithms for X (Subhayan Roy Moulik, UC Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics) 2022-04-29 12:00: Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarization (Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University)) 2022-04-29 13:15: Age-dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain (Sumru Bayin, Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge) 2022-04-29 16:00: Coupling rheology and segregation in granular flows (Nico Gray, University of Manchester) 2022-04-29 16:00: On the Two-fold Role of Logic Constraints in Deep Learning (Dr Gabriele Ciravegna, Inria – Université Côte d'Azur) 2022-05-02 16:15: Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair (Magdalena Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) 2022-05-03 11:00: How to bury CO2 underground and make sure that it does not escape (Nicky White, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-03 12:00: Acoustic imaging of oceanic circulation (Nicky White, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-04 11:00: Bests of ICLR (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-05-05 14:00: The evolution of polychromatic ‘greenbeard’ genes (Professor Jason Wolf, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath) 2022-05-05 14:00: Weak Control for Human-in-the-loop Systems (Masaki Inoue, Keio University) 2022-05-05 15:00: The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning (Roger Levy, MIT) 2022-05-05 15:00: Quantum Algorithms for X (Subhayan Roy Moulik, UC Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics) 2022-05-05 16:00: The long road of building a nervous system - smooth travels and accidents on the journey to get the shape and size. (Elisa Marti, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona) 2022-05-06 12:00: Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior (Alon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University)) 2022-05-06 13:15: Cells in gels: identification of Plakoglobin as an evolutionary conserved mechanosensitive regulator of naïve pluripotency (Timo Kohler, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-06 14:00: Graphene: from point defects to tunable twins (Prof Pilar Ariza, University of Sevilla) 2022-05-06 16:00: Some like it hot, but not icebergs (Claudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) 2022-05-09 11:00: Assisting in the response to the COVID19 pandemic using internet data, Dr Elad Yom-Tov - MSR Cambridge, Lecture Series (Dr Elad Yom-Tov, Microsoft Research) 2022-05-09 16:15: Aversive cognition: inference, learning and control of aversive states in the human brain (Flavia Mancini, Department of Engineering) 2022-05-10 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Optimal design of First in Human trials via dynamic programming” (Dr Lizzi Pitt, University of Bath) 2022-05-11 11:00: How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences. (David Burt, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-11 14:00: Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (Lionel Riou-Durand (University of Warwick)) 2022-05-11 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-05-12 14:00: A guiding torch at the poles: key roles of the centrosome during asymmetric cell division (Dr Fernando Monje Casas, Andalusian Center for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CABIMER), Seville) 2022-05-12 15:00: Computational Imaging and Sensing: Theory and Applications (Prof. Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College London) 2022-05-12 15:00: Towards an Internet of Reality (James Gross, KTH Stockholm) 2022-05-12 15:00: Quantum Algorithms for X (Subhayan Roy Moulik, UC Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics) 2022-05-13 10:00: A Playful Introduction to Some Modern Geometry (Prof Yang-Hui He, London Institute for Mathematical Sciences) 2022-05-13 11:30: Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks (Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley) 2022-05-13 13:15: Dynamic buffering of extracellular chemokine to enable robust adaptation during directed tissue migration (Mie Wong, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London) 2022-05-13 16:00: Mixed active-passive suspensions: from particle entrainment to demixing (Marco Polin, University of Warwick) 2022-05-16 16:15: On the neural language of the cerebellum (Reza Shadmehr, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA) 2022-05-17 12:00: Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding (Lili Mou (University of Alberta)) 2022-05-17 13:15: Lifted Relational Neural Networks (Gustav Šir, Czech Technical University in Prague) 2022-05-17 15:00: How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inference (Wen-Hao Zhang) 2022-05-18 10:00: CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2022 (Various) 2022-05-18 13:00: Integrated PET/MR: research and clinical application (Jianmin Yuan, United Imaging) 2022-05-19 11:00: Can we automatically anonymize text documents? (Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center) 2022-05-19 13:00: Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the Equation (Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen)) 2022-05-19 14:00: Analysis and design of bio-inspired indecision-breaking decision makers (Alessio Franci, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) 2022-05-19 15:00: BSU Virtual Seminar: “Group Testing in Structured and Dynamic Networks” (Batuhan Arasli, University of Maryland) 2022-05-19 15:00: Quantum Algorithms for X (Subhayan Roy Moulik, UC Berkeley, Dept of Mathematics) 2022-05-19 17:00: Wolbachia, African-River Blindness and Big Sur (Professor William Sullivan, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz) 2022-05-20 10:00: A Hitchhiker's guide to Complex Geometry: Pablo Morales (Pablo A. Morales, University of Tokyo) 2022-05-20 13:15: Neurogenic transcription factors in development and cancer (Roberta Azzarelli Wellcome, MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute University of Cambridge) 2022-05-20 14:00: Emerging Energy Materials: Electrified Heating and Wood (Prof Liangbing Hu, Herbert Rabin Distinguished Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Center for Materials Innovation University of Maryland) 2022-05-20 16:00: Sinking droplet durotaxis, engulfment and yield phenomena (Anne Juel, University of Manchester) 2022-05-23 14:00: The Genomic Evolution of Cancer (David Wedge, University of Manchester) 2022-05-23 16:15: Control limited perceptual decision making (Alfonso Renart, Champalimaud, Lisbon, Portugal) 2022-05-23 19:30: Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering (Dr. Nathan Joiner, First Light Fusion, Yarnton, Oxfordshire) 2022-05-25 11:00: Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-05-25 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-05-26 14:00: How does complexity arise from molecular interaction? (Professor Simone Reber, IRI Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) 2022-05-26 14:00: Size-dependence of switching and stable behavior in biochemical systems (Monika Jozsa, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-26 15:00: Order! A tale of money, intrigue, and specifications. (Lorenzo Alvisi, Cornell University) 2022-05-27 10:00: A Hitchhiker's guide to Complex Geometry: Pablo Morales (Pablo A. Morales, University of Tokyo) 2022-05-27 12:00: Fundamental Limits of Learning with Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Networks (Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich) 2022-05-27 13:15: Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila (Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2022-05-27 14:45: 2nd year PhD student talks (James Cummins, Tom Daggitt, William Oxley, Alistair Hales, Jenny Dingwall, Matt Davison, Elvinas Ribinskas, James Mason, Joseph Webber) 2022-05-30 14:00: Cambridge Ellis Seminar Series- Dr. Nicholas Lane- 30 May 2022- 2 pm (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-05-30 19:30: Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease. (Professor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University) 2022-05-31 11:00: Skilful precipitation nowcasting using deep generative models of radar (Suman Ravuri, Google DeepMind) 2022-05-31 13:15: Multi-fidelity machine learning models for improved high-throughput screening predictions (David Buterez) 2022-05-31 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Kris Jensen and Wayne Soo) 2022-06-01 11:00: Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models (Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui) 2022-06-01 14:00: Inverse consistency and global convergence of ResNets (Francois-Xavier Vialard (Université Gustave Eiffel)) 2022-06-01 17:00: Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions (Yanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University)) 2022-06-02 11:00: A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation (Yixuan Su, University of Cambridge) 2022-06-08 11:00: Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-06-08 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-06-09 14:00: “Human gene variants influencing programmed axon death”. (Professor Michael Coleman, Department of Clinical Neurosciences) 2022-06-09 14:00: Using human genetics to define a spectrum of axon vulnerability (Professor Michael Coleman from Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus ) 2022-06-09 14:00: Distributed Control of DC Microgrids with Flexible Structure (Mahdieh S. Sadabadi, Queen Mary University of London) 2022-06-09 15:00: Are we stuck with the current Internet Protocol (IP)? (And does it matter if we are?) (Saleem Bhatti, U. St Andrews) 2022-06-09 15:00: Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation (Junjie Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison) 2022-06-10 10:00: A Hitchhiker's guide to Complex Geometry: Riemannian Geometry (Alison Pouplin, Technical University of Denmark) 2022-06-10 12:00: An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam (Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna)) 2022-06-10 13:00: Analysis and Applications of Deep Cascade Learning (Doris Xin Du) 2022-06-10 13:15: Investigating Human Foetal Blood Development at the Single-Cell Level (Ana Cvejic, Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge) 2022-06-10 16:00: Translating aerodynamic features from insects and birds to bioinspired aircraft (Richard Bomphrey, The Royal Veterinary College) 2022-06-13 12:00: (Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology (Zeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University)) 2022-06-13 19:30: CSAR lecture: Are we alone? (Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge) 2022-06-14 11:00: Adjoint Models: what are they and why are they useful (Emma Boland, British Antarctic Survey) 2022-06-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Optimising the discovery and development of gene silencing drugs with genetics and genomics” (Dan Swerdlow, Silence Therapeutics ) 2022-06-14 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jakub Onysk and Yul Kang) 2022-06-14 16:00: Neural Sequence Models for Mathematical Reasoning (Yuhuai(Tony) Wu, Stanford University & Google) 2022-06-15 11:00: Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-06-15 14:00: The implicit boundary integral method (Richard Tsai (UT Austin)) 2022-06-16 11:00: Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information (Yftah Ziser, University of Edinburgh) 2022-06-16 11:00: Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study (Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) 2022-06-16 14:00: Regulation of physiology via a dietary lipid metabolite. (Professor Aurelio Teleman, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg) 2022-06-16 16:00: Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits (Yuzhen Qin, University of California, Riverside) 2022-06-17 10:00: A Hitchhiker's guide to Complex Geometry: Neural Sheaf Diffusion (Cris Bodnar, University of Cambridge) 2022-06-17 12:00: Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures (Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen)) 2022-06-17 16:00: Excluded volume and order in a system of Brownian needles (Maria Bruna, DAMTP) 2022-06-20 14:00: Deciphering Shared Intratumor Transcriptional Heterogeneity of Human Tumors (Valentina Boeva, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) 2022-06-20 17:00: Neighbourhood matching creates realistic surrogate temporal networks (Antonio Longa, FBK) 2022-06-22 11:00: Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance (Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge) 2022-06-22 13:00: Gut microbiome, cognitive function and brain structure: a multi-omics integration analysis (Jusheng Zheng, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, China) 2022-06-28 11:00: Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data (Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki) 2022-06-28 14:00: Social Signals in the Wild: Multimodal Machine Learning for Human-Robot Interaction (Angelica Lim (Simon Fraser University)) 2022-06-29 11:00: The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification (Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain) 2022-06-30 14:00: Controlling imperfect robot swarms (Hector Garcia de Marina, Universidad de Granada) 2022-06-30 14:00: A Comparative Study on the Loss Functions for Image Enhancement Networks (Aamir Mustafa, University of Cambridge) 2022-06-30 15:00: Trustworthy Digital Identity - Systems Architecture (Jon Crowcroft, CL and Turing institute) 2022-07-01 10:00: Architected Materials Beyond the Laboratory: harnessing self-architecture and exploring extreme conditions (Carlos M Portela, MIT) 2022-07-04 17:00: The Problem of Size Generalization in Graph Neural Networks (Davide Buffelli , Universita' di Padova) 2022-07-05 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Design and Inference for Enrichment Trials with a Continuous Biomarker" (Prof William Rosenberger, George Mason University) 2022-07-06 11:00: The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning (Greg Yang, Microsoft Research) 2022-07-07 15:00: Building trustworthy multi-party systems in the cloud (without handling over the keys to the kingdom) (Heidi Howard, Microsoft Research) 2022-07-08 11:00: Synthetics with Digital Humans (Dr. Erroll Wood (Staff Software Engineer at Google)) 2022-07-11 14:00: Combining multi-omics and biological knowledge to extract disease mechanisms (Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University, Director of the Institute of Computational Biomedicine and Group Leader at the EMBL- Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU)) 2022-07-12 14:00: Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction (Martin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology )) 2022-07-13 12:00: An Introduction to Data and Commercialisation (Cambridge Enterprise: Dr Terry Parlett, Dr Emma Salgård Cunha and Dr Sian Fogden) 2022-07-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-07-14 14:00: Image Quality Metrics at the Time of Deep Learning (Francesco Banterle, Visual Computing Lab, ISTI-CNR, Italy) 2022-07-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Challenges in risk prediction using routinely collected health data" (Dr Elizabeth Williamson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine ) 2022-07-21 15:00: cISP: A Speed-of-Light Internet Service Provider (Brighten Godfrey, UIUC and VMware) 2022-07-26 14:00: Analysis by synthesis for interpretable image collection analysis (Dr. Mathieu Aubry (Tenured Researcher at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)) 2022-08-03 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-08-18 15:00: Achieving Consistent Low Latency for Wireless Real-Time Communications with the Shortest Control Loop (Zili Meng, Tsinghua Unversity) 2022-08-22 15:30: BSU Seminar: "Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction" (David Balding, Honorary Professor of Statistical Genetics at UCL Genetics Institute and University of Melbourne) 2022-08-26 11:00: Modeling Light for View Synthesis (Dr. Ben Mildenhall (Google Research)) 2022-08-31 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-08-31 16:30: Self-supervised Learning from Images, Videos, and a single Image plus Augmentations (Dr. Yuki M. Asano (University of Amsterdam)) 2022-09-02 16:00: Learning Backward Compatible Embeddings (Weihua Hu, Stanford University and Google) 2022-09-09 14:00: Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids (Dr Ankit Srivastava, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University) 2022-09-13 11:00: Who is Afraid of Non-Universal (Deep Learned) Facial Perception? (Dr Pablo Barros, SONY R&D CENTER, BRUSSELS LABORATORY (BRL), BELGIUM) 2022-09-21 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-09-27 10:00: AI in Medical Imaging Research Seminar – Cathal McCague – "Stop rolling the DSC! - A new framework for assessing the clinical utility of segmentation algorithms" (Cathal McCague, Department of Radiology) 2022-09-28 11:00: Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk (Roman Novak, Google Brain) 2022-09-29 11:00: Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP (Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt) 2022-09-29 14:00: Why is Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility so common? (Professor Michael Turelli, from Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, CA ) 2022-10-03 12:00: The environmental impact of computational science: how bad is it and what can we do about it? (Dr Loïc Lannelongue (Department of Public Health and Primary Care)) 2022-10-04 11:00: The Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits (Thomas Swinfield, 4C & Department of Zoology) 2022-10-04 13:15: Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience. (Danielle Belgrave, DeepMind) 2022-10-05 13:00: Efficient priors for self-supervised learning: application and theories (Yu Wang, JD AI Research) 2022-10-05 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-10-07 12:00: The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD) (Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University)) 2022-10-07 13:15: Adherens junctions, mechanotransduction and intra-epithelial communication (Alpha Yap, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) 2022-10-07 14:00: Welcome to term and to new PhD students (Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED) 2022-10-07 16:00: Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning (Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)) 2022-10-07 16:00: The dynamics of super-absorbent hydrogels (Grae Worster, DAMTP) 2022-10-10 16:15: Anterior Insula and Prospect Theory (Veit Stuphorn, Department of Neuroscience, Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.) 2022-10-10 18:30: Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end (Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy) 2022-10-11 13:05: Reply: Introduction to Post-Quantum Cyber Security (Anuj Doshi and Vasu Prasad) 2022-10-12 11:00: Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward (Michael Cohen, University of Oxford) 2022-10-12 14:00: An introduction to counts-of-counts data (Simon Tavaré PhD Herbert and Florence Irving Director Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Professor, Departments of Statistics and Biological Sciences Columbia University) 2022-10-13 11:00: Quantifying Linguistic Variation (Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen) 2022-10-13 13:00: Latest RSE developments in RCS (Christopher Edsall (University of Cambridge)) 2022-10-13 14:00: Base Editing and Prime Editing: Precise Gene Correction Without Double-Strand DNA Breaks (Professor David Liu, from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge MA) 2022-10-14 13:15: Biofabrication and material interfaces for life science applications (Yan Yan Shery Huang, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2022-10-14 16:00: Instability, mixing and fragmentation in planetary collisions (Maylis Landeau, IPGP) 2022-10-17 16:15: Representation and computation in visual working memory (Paul Bays, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge) 2022-10-17 19:30: CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance? (Prof. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease) 2022-10-18 11:00: Planetary Intelligence: Better Decisions for Business and Planet (Matthew Smith, Scientific Technologies) 2022-10-18 13:00: Query-based Hard-Image Retrieval for Object Detection at Test Time (Ed Ayers, Five AI) 2022-10-18 13:05: GSA Capital: Staying Competitive (Julian Roth) 2022-10-18 14:00: Virtual BSU Seminar: "Variable Selection and Prioritization in Bayesian Machine Learning Methods" (Lorin Crawford, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Brown University ) 2022-10-19 14:00: A semantics knowledge commons for climate change (Peter Murray-Rust, Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry) 2022-10-19 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-10-20 13:00: Hot & cool: tackling the Fusion grand challenge with AI and HPC (Lorenzo Zanisi - UK Atomic Energy Authority) 2022-10-20 13:00: In-situ visualization of AMR datasets with ParaView Catalyst and Intel OSPRay ( (University of Cambridge)) 2022-10-20 14:00: Epigenetics and genome dynamics: what can we learn from ciliates? (Dr Sandra Duharcourt, Institut Jacques Monod, Universite de Paris) 2022-10-20 14:00: Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Wearable technologies (Tamar Makin, MRC CBU at the University of Cambridge) 2022-10-20 15:00: Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics (Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin) 2022-10-20 15:00: Overcoming catastrophic forgetting and enabling forward transfer in Continual Learning: A Sparsity Approach (Jonathan Richard Schwarz, Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind) 2022-10-21 12:00: A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text (Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge)) 2022-10-21 14:00: Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment (Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven) 2022-10-21 16:00: Instability to elastic turbulence; freezing soft particles; confined viscous flows (Miguel Beneitez, Pallav Kant, Ashleigh Hutchinson - DAMTP) 2022-10-24 10:30: Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons (Daniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK) 2022-10-24 14:00: TALK POSTPONED (Francesca Buffa) 2022-10-24 16:15: Prefrontal Mechanisms for Group Behaviour (Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Department of Neurosurgery, Harvard Medical School, and German Primate Center, Göttingen) 2022-10-24 18:30: Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age (Professor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 2022-10-25 10:00: AI in Medical Imaging Research Seminar – Nikita Sushentsev – "Time-series Radiomics: top or flop? - A new framework for longitudinal medical image analysis" (Nikita Sushentsev, Gates Scholar and PhD student at the Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge) 2022-10-25 11:00: Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Natural Hazard Risk Assessment (Christian Geiss, German Aerospace Centre) 2022-10-25 13:00: ACMP: Allen-Cahn Message Passing with Attractive and Repulsive Forces for Graph Neural Networks (Yu Guang Wang) 2022-10-25 13:05: Jane Street: One log to rule them all – How to keep state straight in distributed systems (Matt Else) 2022-10-25 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Jake Stroud and David Liu) 2022-10-25 15:00: TBC (St John, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aalto University) 2022-10-26 11:00: Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning (Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge) 2022-10-26 14:00: Buffering genetic variation in populations (Ritwick Sawarkar, MRC Toxicology Unit) 2022-10-26 14:00: Dr. Maria Perez-Ortiz- “Towards Planet-centered Artificial Intelligence” (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-10-27 13:00: A summary of the reproducibility initiative for SC21 (Kiril Dichev (University of Cambridge)) 2022-10-27 13:00: AI applications in radiological image analysis for cancer research (Lorena Escudero) 2022-10-27 14:00: Multivariable Control in 40 Minutes (Prof. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University) 2022-10-28 12:00: Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts (Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich)) 2022-10-28 13:15: Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species (Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute) 2022-10-28 14:00: Smart micro-textiles: from bioinspired sensing to bioelectronic interface (Andy Wang CUED) 2022-10-28 14:30: Simulating the Tumor Microenvironment for Immune Cell Interactions via Deployable Extrusion (Corrado Mazzaglia, CUED) 2022-10-28 16:00: From Olympic rowing to gunwale bobbing: Wave drag and wave thrust phenomena (Graham Benham, U. Oxford) 2022-10-30 14:00: Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgery (Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge) 2022-10-31 18:00: Cambridge Darwins in Conversation (Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow) 2022-10-31 19:30: Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain (Prof. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2022-11-01 11:00: Decolonising the curriculum (Liz Hide, Director of the Sedgwick Museum, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2022-11-01 13:00: AI for Science: An Oral Report from a Recent Dagstuhl Workshop (Neil Lawrence) 2022-11-01 13:05: Monumo: Engineering Simulation and Design: New Opportunities for Computer Science (Chris Doran) 2022-11-01 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment" (Dr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath) 2022-11-02 13:00: Development and validation of computational coronary physiology and plaque vulnerability (Prof. Shengxian Tu, Shanghai Jiaotong University) 2022-11-02 14:00: Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination (Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry) 2022-11-02 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-11-03 11:00: Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning (Antoine Miech, DeepMind) 2022-11-03 13:00: Calabi—Yau manifolds and Machine Learning (Challenger Mishra (University of Cambridge)) 2022-11-03 13:00: Using the LIKWID tool suite (Thomas Gruber) 2022-11-03 13:00: The second generation of meta-learning methods (Massimiliano (Max) Patacchiola, University of Cambridge) 2022-11-03 14:00: Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion (Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2022-11-04 13:15: Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis (Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany) 2022-11-04 14:00: Cut it out - residual stresses in dynamic cell sheets (Dr Stephanie Hoehn, DAMTP, Cambridge) 2022-11-04 16:00: Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics (Steve Brunton, U. Washington) 2022-11-07 11:00: NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges (Tom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2022-11-07 16:15: Reconsolidation-based approaches for the treatment of mental health disorders (Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge) 2022-11-07 18:30: A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress (Professor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London) 2022-11-08 11:00: Unsupervised Learning-enabled Analysis in Electron Microscopy. (Po-Yen Tung (University of Cambridge)) 2022-11-08 13:00: Graph Neural Networks for Geometric Graphs (Chaitanya K. Joshi, Simon V. Mathis) 2022-11-08 13:05: Avos: Looking back 15 years: the technological changes leading to the Zoom Cat Lawyer (Sam Jansen) 2022-11-08 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian) 2022-11-09 11:00: A tutorial on diffusion models (Emile, Sasha from CBL) 2022-11-09 14:00: Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents? (Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine.) 2022-11-10 11:00: Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models (Ignacio Iacobacci, Huawei ) 2022-11-10 13:00: Bayesian inference with likelihood reweighting: motivation, method, and application to gravitational-wave astrophysics (Isobel Romero-Shaw (DAMTP)) 2022-11-10 13:00: Using SYCL kernels for Finite Element assembly (Igor Baratta) 2022-11-10 14:00: Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective (Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute) 2022-11-10 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis" (Prof Christopher Yau, University of Oxford ) 2022-11-10 14:00: Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and control (Christian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France) 2022-11-10 15:00: The Challenges of Controlling a Quantum Computer (Kenton Barnes, Riverlane) 2022-11-11 12:00: Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT (Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam)) 2022-11-11 13:15: Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila (Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge) 2022-11-11 14:00: Microstructure control in metal additive manufacturing: a LEGO analogy (Dr Matteo Seita, CUED) 2022-11-11 16:00: The precessing vortex core instability in swirled jets (Santosh Hemchandra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) 2022-11-14 13:00: Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement (Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations) 2022-11-14 19:30: Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future (Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia) 2022-11-15 11:00: The environmental impact of computational science: how bad is it and what can we do about it? (Loic Lannelongue, Dept of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge) 2022-11-15 13:00: Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs (Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge)) 2022-11-15 13:05: Gearset: Lessons from life as a junior software engineer (Julian Wreford) 2022-11-15 14:00: BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia" (Dr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne) 2022-11-16 11:00: Predicting generalization of ML models. (Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy) 2022-11-16 14:00: Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology (Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca) 2022-11-16 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-11-17 11:00: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction (Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh) 2022-11-17 11:00: End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding (Aishwarya Kamath, New York University) 2022-11-17 13:00: Using Invariants and Metric Data Structures for Better Materials Research (Alya Bin Thabet - Montserrat Lab, Cambridge) 2022-11-17 13:00: Rust: first impressions and rough guide (Matthew Scroggs, UCL) 2022-11-17 14:00: Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2 (Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel) 2022-11-17 14:00: On motor intelligence for soft robots (Cosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland) 2022-11-18 12:00: Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing (Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain)) 2022-11-18 13:15: Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development (Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology) 2022-11-18 14:00: Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective (Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford) 2022-11-18 16:00: APS DFD - no seminar (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-11-18 16:00: Machine learning for Stringy theory: Calabi--Yau & G_2 manifolds (Daattavya Aggarwal) 2022-11-21 18:30: Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery (Professor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science) 2022-11-22 11:00: Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport (Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile) 2022-11-22 13:00: Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers (Yoli Shavit, Huawei TRC and Bar-Ilan University, Israel) 2022-11-22 13:05: Utterberry: Data and Data Sustainability (Heba Bevan - Utterberry CEO) 2022-11-22 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils” (Professor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan) 2022-11-22 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel) 2022-11-23 11:00: Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent (Andy Lin, MLG) 2022-11-24 11:30: Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances (Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland ) 2022-11-24 13:00: The granular analysis of risk in complex insurance policies, and saving world heritage (Trevor Maynard, Liz Marston, Tobias Stone -- Sotera Heritage) 2022-11-24 14:00: Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans (Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) 2022-11-24 15:00: Scene understanding in emergency response scenarios (Niki Trigoni, Oxford) 2022-11-24 17:00: Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks (Harrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge) 2022-11-25 12:00: CANCELLED (Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS)) 2022-11-25 14:00: What machine learning can do for (meta)materials-by-design (Dr Sid Kumar, Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft) 2022-11-25 15:00: The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks (Han Xuanyuan, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge) 2022-11-25 16:00: Motile bacteria in giant unilamellar vesicles: A cautionary tale (Wilson Poon, U. Edinburgh) 2022-11-25 17:00: Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts (Steve Azzolin) 2022-11-28 14:00: On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer (Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre) 2022-11-28 14:00: Object-Centric 3D Perception (Prof. Angela Dai (Technical University of Munich)) 2022-11-28 16:15: The enigmatic and integrative claustrum (Adam Packer, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford) 2022-11-28 19:30: An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR. ( Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR.) 2022-11-29 11:00: Can geomagnetic and ionospheric precursor signals improve earthquake forecasting? (Luke Cullen, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2022-11-29 13:05: Nethermind: Zero-knowledge proofs. From theory to practice in less than 40 years (Michal Zajac - Head of Research at Nethermind) 2022-11-29 14:00: Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour (Juan Alvaro Gallego) 2022-11-30 14:00: Deep reinforced active learning (Emma Slade - GSK) 2022-11-30 14:00: Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes (Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College)) 2022-11-30 14:00: Cambridge Ellis Unit Seminar Series - Dr. Zeynep Akata- 30 Nov 2022- 2pm (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-11-30 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2022-11-30 17:00: Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution (Kai Yi, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney) 2022-12-01 11:00: Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning (Mikel Artetxe, Meta) 2022-12-01 13:00: What’s in a video? AI, free speech, and the challenge of content moderation (Sasha Haco - Unitary) 2022-12-01 14:00: A Distance Function based Cascaded Neural Network for accurate Polyps Segmentation and Classification ( Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) 2022-12-01 14:00: Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networks (Sebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge) 2022-12-01 15:00: Consumer IoT devices Identification at the Edge (Roman Kolcun, University of Cambridge) 2022-12-02 12:00: Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline (Kris Cao (DeepMind)) 2022-12-02 13:15: Epigenetic resetting during human germline development (Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute) 2022-12-02 16:00: Living Droplets Get to Work (Eric Dufresne, ETH Zurich) 2022-12-05 18:30: Neuroscience in artistic cartoons (Paul Apicella, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France ) 2022-12-06 11:00: Pyrocast: A Machine Learning Pipeline to Forecast Pyrocumulonimbus (PyroCb) clouds (Kenza Tazi, British Antarctic Survey and Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2022-12-06 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Edward Young, Zahara Girones) 2022-12-12 14:00: Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated (Cynthia Rudin, Duke University) 2022-12-15 11:00: Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs (David Duvenaud (University of Toronto)) 2022-12-15 11:00: Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs (David Duvenaud (University of Toronto)) 2022-12-16 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression' (Prof Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida) 2023-01-09 14:00: Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics (Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine) 2023-01-10 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data" (Dr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna) 2023-01-12 14:00: Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species (Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA ) 2023-01-17 15:00: Using unsupervised learning to discover how convective clouds form and evolve (Dr Leif Denby, University of Leeds) 2023-01-18 14:00: Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity (Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology) 2023-01-18 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-01-19 13:00: Searching for new physics with machine learning at the Large Hadron Collider (William Fawcett) 2023-01-19 14:00: Smarter materials for simpler robotics (Andrew Conn) 2023-01-20 12:00: Exploring and Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-Playing  (Paul Röttger (Oxford University)) 2023-01-20 13:15: Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development (Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 2023-01-20 14:00: A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting (Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED) 2023-01-20 16:00: Algal Phototaxis and the Evolution of Multicellularity (Ray Goldstein, DAMTP) 2023-01-20 17:30: On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls (Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge) 2023-01-23 16:15: The paths to compulsion: new insights into the factors that shape the vulnerability to develop compulsive disorders (David Belin, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge) 2023-01-23 19:30: Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour? (Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London) 2023-01-24 11:00: Short cuts make long delays: Machine Learning for COVID-19 and Medical Imaging (Dr. Ian Selby, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge) 2023-01-24 13:00: Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-off (Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge)) 2023-01-24 13:05: Entrust: Leighton-Micali Signatures (Richard Kettlewell, Senior Principle Software Architect) 2023-01-24 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity' (Dr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol) 2023-01-24 15:00: Sounds of the Earth: Using seismic recordings to listen to earthquakes and great whales (Dr Sergei Lebedev, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2023-01-25 13:00: Contour-based data assimilation in cardiac modeling: from principles to challenges (Dr Philippe Moireau, Inria and Ecole Polytechnique) 2023-01-25 14:00: Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis (Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology) 2023-01-26 11:00: SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems (Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University) 2023-01-26 13:00: The environmental impacts of computational science: how bad is it and what can we do about it? (Loïc Lannelongue) 2023-01-26 14:00: Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution (Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec ) 2023-01-26 14:00: A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability (Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester) 2023-01-27 12:00: GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP (Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS)) 2023-01-27 13:15: Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury (Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London) 2023-01-27 14:00: Computationally derived correlations between segregation, microstructure variations and process-induced cracks in AM (Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University) 2023-01-27 16:00: Theory of bubble tips in strong viscous flows (Jens Eggers, U. Bristol) 2023-01-27 17:30: The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia (Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University) 2023-01-30 11:00: Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle (Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual) 2023-01-30 16:15: Of odour plumes and synchrotrons - structure and function in neural circuits (Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2023-01-30 17:30: Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age? (Professor Mark Girolami FREng GRSE) 2023-01-30 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes (Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford) 2023-01-31 13:00: When Vision Transformers Meet Cooperative Perception (Runsheng Xu, UCLA (USA)) 2023-01-31 13:05: Huawei: Pangloss+: a novel Markov chain adaptive prefetcher (Philippos Papaphilippou, Senior CPU Architect at Huawei UK R&D) 2023-01-31 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’ (Dr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL) 2023-01-31 14:00: Cambridge Ellis Unit Seminar Series - Dr Manuel Gomez Rodriguez - 31 Jan 2023- 2pm (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-01-31 15:00: Sustainability in research (Amy Munroe Faure, Engagement Manager, Cambridge Zero) 2023-02-01 14:00: Does computational biology explain Fibonacci numbers in plants? (Jonathan Swinton) 2023-02-01 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-02-02 11:00: Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views (Pinelopi (Nelly) Papalampidi, DeepMind) 2023-02-03 12:00: Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction (Shiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge)) 2023-02-03 14:00: Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond (Prof Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder) 2023-02-03 16:00: Unsteady aerodynamics in large-disturbance flows: Gust encounters and maneuvering wings (Anya Jones, U. Maryland) 2023-02-03 17:30: The Closeting of Secrets (Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge) 2023-02-06 16:15: Homo Cyberneticus: Neurocognitive embodiment of artificial limbs (Tamar Makin, MRC-CBSU, Cambridge ) 2023-02-06 19:30: Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications (Professor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK.) 2023-02-07 13:05: Next DLP: Cyber Security Talk - Well that's expensively weird - A deep dive into cloud incident response (Tom Cope, CSO from NextDLP) 2023-02-07 13:30: The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learning (Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience) 2023-02-07 15:00: Gulf Stream physical characteristics from remote sensing and neural networks (Etienne Pauthenet, Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer) 2023-02-08 11:00: {PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints (Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,) 2023-02-08 13:00: How Topology Reveals Structure in Biology (Iris Yoon, University of Oxford) 2023-02-08 14:00: Research in the Goldman group: pandemic-scale phylogenetics, and optimizing new sequencing technologies (Nick Goldman and Nicola De Maio, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute) 2023-02-09 11:00: Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages (Sebastian Ruder, Google) 2023-02-09 14:00: Geometric Gaussian Processes: Viacheslav Borovitskiy, ETH Zürich (Viacheslav Borovitskiy, ETH Zürich) 2023-02-09 14:00: Feedback system analysis: back to the future (Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge) 2023-02-10 14:00: Stress-unsupervised learning of material models using experimental data (Dr Akshay Joshi, CUED) 2023-02-10 14:30: Geometric compatibility: from simple mathematics to complex materials, structures and mechanics (Dr Fen Fang, CUED) 2023-02-10 16:00: The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality (Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam)) 2023-02-10 16:00: Horizontal film drainage: soap film elasticity, lubrication equation, line tension and instability (Isabelle Cantat, U. Rennes) 2023-02-10 17:30: Antarctica:Isolated Continent (Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey) 2023-02-13 14:00: Mammalian Synthetic Biology – Biomolecular Circuits as Medicine (Xiaojing Gao, Stanford University) 2023-02-13 16:15: Visual information processing in mice – from the retina to cortex (Katrin Franke, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, U.S.A) 2023-02-13 18:00: Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development (Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience ) 2023-02-14 13:00: Composite Feature Selection using Deep Ensembles (Alex Norcliffe - University of Cambridge) 2023-02-14 13:05: Ab Initio: Data Science in Industry: Trials and Tribulations (Dr Owen Astley (Cambridge University), Jonathan Sunderland, Dr Richard Hall (Sheffield, Cambridge University), Ben Roche (Durham University)) 2023-02-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'From Data to Decisions: Causal Inference Motivated by Policy Questions' (Prof Mats Stensrud, EPFL) 2023-02-14 14:00: Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimization (Raphael Jungers, UC Louvain) 2023-02-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Puria Radmard and David Liu) 2023-02-15 11:00: Offline Reinforcement Learning (Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh)) 2023-02-15 14:00: Mapping DNA replication stress in parasites and cancer cells with long-read sequencing and AI (Dr. Michael A. Boemo, Research Group Leader, Department of Pathology) 2023-02-15 14:00: Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication (Luca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome) 2023-02-15 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-02-16 12:00: Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines (Prof Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology ) 2023-02-16 14:00: Microbial growth behavior and the control of protein synthesis in and out of steady state (Jonas Cremer, Stanford University) 2023-02-17 12:00: Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views (Pinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind)) 2023-02-17 13:00: New tricks for Rac and Rho, even after 30 years (Denise Montell, University of California Santa Barbara, US) 2023-02-17 14:00: Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure (Prof Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria) 2023-02-17 16:00: Scientific Uses of Automatic Differentiation (Michael Brenner, Harvard U.) 2023-02-17 17:30: Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers (Professor Philip Jones, University College London) 2023-02-20 16:15: ADRIAN LECTURE: Region-selective hippocampus contributions to altered cognition in aging (Carol Barnes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.) 2023-02-20 19:30: Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space? (Professor Florian Hollfelder, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2023-02-21 13:00: Neural Networks for High-Dimensional Tabular Biomedical Datasets (Andrei Margeloiu (University of Cambridge)) 2023-02-21 13:05: TechWolf: From text to skills: an NLP journey (Severine Verlinden, NLP Engineer) 2023-02-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian Covariance Structure Modelling of Clinical Trial Data' (Stef Baas, University of Twente) 2023-02-21 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Luke Johnston, Wayne Soo) 2023-02-21 15:00: Enhancing automated analysis of marine soundscapes using ecoacoustic indices and machine learning (Dr Ben WIlliams, UCL) 2023-02-22 11:00: Bayesian Neural Networks (James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge)) 2023-02-22 14:00: Seeing the Unseen (Jordan P. Skittrall, NIHR Clinical Lecturer in Virology and Honorary Specialty Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Medical Virology, Division of Virology, Department of Pathology) 2023-02-23 11:00: One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs (Fangyu LIU (University of Cambridge)) 2023-02-23 14:00: Mechanism of neural differentiation (Professor Kate Storey from School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee) 2023-02-23 14:00: Distributed Learning and Control for Networked Autonomy (Konstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford) 2023-02-23 16:00: Membrane shapes and dynamics driven by curved active proteins (Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute Israel) 2023-02-24 12:00: Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning (Jonas Pfeiffer (Google Research)) 2023-02-24 13:00: Encoding and decoding morphogen gradients (Jean-Paul Vincent, Crick Institute, London) 2023-02-24 14:00: Strength prediction of polymer composite laminates under uncertainties using theory-guided machine learning (Prof Pedro Camanho, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Porto) 2023-02-24 16:00: Hydrodynamic Black Holes (Silke Weinfurtner, U. Nottingham) 2023-02-24 17:30: Are we alone in the Universe? (Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge) 2023-02-27 11:00: AI in Medicine Seminar Series (Isaac Sebenius and Tong Xia) 2023-02-27 16:15: Myelin plasticity - a mechanism for learning and repair? (Thora Karadottir, Dept of Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge) 2023-02-27 18:00: Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species? (Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences ) 2023-02-28 13:00: Structure-based Drug Design and Molecular Optimisation with Diffusion Models (Charlie Harris, University of Cambridge) 2023-02-28 15:00: Checking contentious counting: how machine learning can help to verify international climate finance (Malte Toetzke, ETH Zurich) 2023-03-01 11:00: An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning (Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge)) 2023-03-01 13:00: Optical monitoring of cerebral metabolism: from newborn brain injury to dementia (Dr Gemma Bale, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2023-03-01 14:00: Computational Biology in Drug Discovery (Philippe Sanseau, GSK Senior Fellow, Head In Silico Target Biology, Computational Biology, Genomic Sciences) 2023-03-01 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-03-02 11:00: Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling (Piotr Nawrot, University of Edinburgh) 2023-03-02 13:00: Data science and data methodologies at the Office for National Statistics (Mary Cleaton and Salah Merad — ONS) 2023-03-02 14:00: Regulation of gene expression during the awakening of the zygotic genome (Dr Mounia Lagha from Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, France ) 2023-03-02 14:00: Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks during cancer metastasis (Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore) 2023-03-03 10:00: The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in the multi-fluid plasma regime with transport effects (Kyriakos Tapinou, University of Queensland) 2023-03-03 12:00: An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough (Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University)) 2023-03-03 13:00: Tumor initiation through aberrant differentiation (Walid Khaled, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2023-03-03 14:00: The chase for fluid-structure interaction effects – An obsession or something important? (Dr Vegard Aune, NTNU, Norway) 2023-03-03 16:00: Turbulence-mean-flow interactions: lessons from local 2D turbulence (Anna Frishman, Technion) 2023-03-03 17:30: The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea (Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge) 2023-03-06 16:15: Cambridge ELLIS Seminar Series- Dr Roger Grosse- Studying Neural Net Generalization through Influence Functions (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-03-06 19:30: The adolescent brain (Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2023-03-07 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Methods for Bayesian optimal design of experiments, with application in biological science’ (Prof Dave Woods, University of Southampton) 2023-03-07 15:00: Met Office AI strategy (Kirstine Dale, the Met Office) 2023-03-08 11:00: Random Features for Kernel Approximation (Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge)) 2023-03-08 14:00: Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger (Katherine Lawler, Research Associate Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital) 2023-03-08 18:00: Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe (Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham) 2023-03-09 13:00: Early Life Microbiomes and Long-Term Health (Dr Trevor Lawley from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire) 2023-03-09 14:00: Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary Biology (Harrison Steel, University of Oxford) 2023-03-09 16:00: Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk (Mona Diab, Meta AI) 2023-03-10 12:00: Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages (Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR)) 2023-03-10 13:00: Form and function during early heart development (Richard Tyser, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2023-03-10 14:00: Physics-enhancing machine learning strategies for friction force evaluation (Alice Cicrello, TU Delft) 2023-03-10 16:00: Utilising probability distributions in Earth observations (B.B. Cael, Nat. Oceanography Centre) 2023-03-10 17:30: Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play (Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge) 2023-03-13 18:00: Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics (Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering) 2023-03-14 15:00: Coastal flood risk (Ivan Haigh, University of Southampton) 2023-03-15 11:00: User Manipulation in Recommender Systems (Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley)) 2023-03-15 14:00: Finding Target-Disease-Drug evidences from Literature and supporting curators. Please note: the details of this talk have changed (Matthew Jeffryes and Santosh Tirunagari, EMBL-EBI) 2023-03-15 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-03-16 11:00: Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot. (Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow) 2023-03-16 14:00: CANCELLED - An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control (Melanie Zeilinger) 2023-03-17 14:00: Seeing opportunity in failure: can common issues in metal Additive Manufacture help deliver innovative material solutions? (Prof. Iain Todd from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield ) 2023-03-17 16:00: On the creation and evolution of quantum knots and links (Renzo Ricca, U. Milano-Bicocca) 2023-03-18 10:15: Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting (Organisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan) 2023-03-20 16:15: Local and global aspects of sleep homeostasis (Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford) 2023-03-22 11:00: Causal Machine Learning (Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge)) 2023-03-27 14:00: Oncogene-like addiction to aneuploidy in human cancers (Jason Sheltzer, Yale School of Medicine) 2023-03-28 11:00: AI in Medicine Seminar Series (Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga and Francesco Prinzi) 2023-03-28 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Marine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud)) 2023-03-29 11:00: Physics-informed machine learning (Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge)) 2023-03-31 11:00: The mechanics of nature-inspired heterogeneous architected materials (HAMs) (Prof Bosco Yu, University of Victoria) 2023-03-31 14:00: Advanced Tissue Biofabrication (Prof Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School) 2023-04-05 11:00: Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis (Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge)) 2023-04-12 11:00: No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning (Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge)) 2023-04-18 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Covariate Adjustment in Randomized Experiments with Incomplete Covariate and Outcome Data' (Prof Fan Li, Duke University ) 2023-04-18 15:00: How to collaborate with climate modellers from a data scientist perspective: examples of application in unsupervised clustering and model tuning (Dr Redouane Lguensat, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France) 2023-04-19 11:00: Neural Tangent Kernel (Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) ) 2023-04-25 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis) 2023-04-25 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Raghul Parthipan and Omer Nivron, University of Cambridge) 2023-04-26 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-04-27 13:00: Machine learning for scalable quantum computing: eventually, you run out of PhD students. (David Wise - Quantum Motion) 2023-04-27 14:00: Whodunnit in the genome: Fingerprints of mutagenesis reveal culprits of cancer (Professor Serena Nik-Zainal from Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge) 2023-04-27 14:00: Vector-based steering control in the insect brain (Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh) 2023-04-28 12:00: Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference (Joe Stacey (Imperial College London)) 2023-04-28 14:00: Fundamental limits of generative AI (Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich) 2023-04-28 15:00: Cambridge ELLIS Seminar Series- Dr. Petar Veličković - 28 April 2023- 15:00 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-04-28 16:00: New perspectives on ocean interior turbulent mixing (Ali Mashayek, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2023-05-01 19:30: The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space (Ian Cash, M.Eng, International Electric Company) 2023-05-02 15:00: Field studies of high Arctic glacial methane seeps (Dr Gabby Kleber, University of Cambridge) 2023-05-02 15:00: Follow the Transistors, a New Approach to Systems Software (George Neville-Neil) 2023-05-03 11:00: Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification (Burigede Liu) 2023-05-04 13:00: An introduction to careers and challenges in Quantitative Finance (Charles Martinez - G-Research) 2023-05-04 14:00: Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservation (Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen) 2023-05-04 15:00: Insights into Routing on Service Addresses (ROSA) (Dirk Trossen, Huawei) 2023-05-04 15:00: Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology (Dallas Card, University of Michigan) 2023-05-04 17:00: Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions (Aad van der Vaart (Delft)) 2023-05-05 13:00: Decision making without genes? (Prof Jonathan Chubb, Laboratory For Molecular Cell Bology UCL) 2023-05-05 14:00: Coiled Muscle + Snapping Beams: From Nonlinear Mechanics to Miniature Robotic Design (Dr Sam Tawfick, University of Illinois ) 2023-05-05 16:00: Active matter in inhomogeneous environments (Gwynn Elfring, University of British Columbia) 2023-05-09 15:00: Machine learning for evaluating the drivers of variability in Arctic sea-ice motion (Lauren Hoffman, University of California, San Diego) 2023-05-09 16:15: Neural mechanisms for credit assignment and model building (Nathaniel Daw, Princeton University ) 2023-05-10 11:00: Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field (Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge) 2023-05-10 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-05-11 11:00: Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry (Sam Power, University of Bristol) 2023-05-11 13:00: All molecules are interesting (Jonathan M Goodman, Professor of Chemistry (Cambridge)) 2023-05-11 14:00: Pathogen phylodynamics: from historical epidemics to contemporary outbreaks (Professor Philippe Lemey from Clinical and Epidemiological Virology Rega Institute, K.U. Leuven ) 2023-05-11 14:00: Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problems (Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College) 2023-05-12 13:00: Sticky proteins and moving genomes: a single-molecule perspective of pluripotent cell differentiation (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-05-12 16:00: Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models (Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia)) 2023-05-12 16:00: From neurons and sunflowers to elephant trunks: the fascinating dynamics of smart active filaments (Alain Goriely, University of Oxford) 2023-05-15 16:15: Advanced optical approaches to reveal the neural code underlying sensory perception (Tommaso Fellin, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova) 2023-05-15 19:30: Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens (Prof. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University) 2023-05-16 13:00: Dimensionality Reduction via Probabilistic Inference (Aditya Ravuri (University of Cambridge)) 2023-05-16 15:00: The future role of AI on the Earth sciences - a unified agenda (Gustau Camps-Valls, University of Valencia) 2023-05-17 09:45: CCBI/C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium (multiple) 2023-05-18 11:00: Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy (Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki) 2023-05-18 13:00: AI + HPC for Astrophysics (Maxwell Cai - Intel) 2023-05-18 13:00: Packaging and Publishing your Python code (Liam Pattinson, RSE, York Plasma Institute) 2023-05-18 15:00: In-Network Machine Learning for Market Prediction Using Limit Order Books (Xinpeng Hong, University of Oxford) 2023-05-19 12:00: Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic (Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg)) 2023-05-19 13:00: Temporal development and maturation of CSF-producing choroid plexus organoids (Dr. Laura Pellegrini, Kings College London/ MRC LMB) 2023-05-19 14:00: Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision (Prof William P. King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC ) 2023-05-19 15:00: 2nd year PhD student talks - speakers listed below (DAMTP PhD students) 2023-05-19 17:00: Integrating Radiomics and Explainable Methods: Paving the Way for Transparent and Interpretable Medical Imaging Analysis (Francesco Prinzi, University of Palermo) 2023-05-22 14:00: OpenFold: Lessons learned and insights gained from rebuilding and retraining AlphaFold2. (Mohammed AlQuarishi, Columbia University) 2023-05-23 11:30: Changing reference frame: insights from unsteady fragmentation (Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2023-05-23 13:00: Relative Entropy Coding for Learned Data Compression (Greg Flamich, Engineering Department (Cambridge)) 2023-05-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Modelling the response to vaccine in non-human primates to define SARS-CoV-2 mechanistic correlates of protection' (Mélanie Prague, Inria, University of Bordeaux) 2023-05-23 16:00: Untangling aerosol-cloud interactions with machine learning (Dr Duncan Watson-Parris, University of California San Diego) 2023-05-23 17:30: Improving learning with noisy labels in two possibile scenarios. (Maria Sofia Bucarelli, La Sapienza University) 2023-05-24 11:00: Reward Modelling (Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge) 2023-05-24 12:30: How to design smart factories of Industry 4.0 with enterprise information systems? (Dr Soujanya Mantravadi - Institute for Manufacturing (IfM)) 2023-05-24 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-05-25 11:00: An in-depth look at Deep Learning in Digital Media (Prof. Panos Nasiopoulos, University of British Columbia) 2023-05-25 11:00: Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles (Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh) 2023-05-25 13:00: Automated and Semi-Automated bug finding for Fortran (Dominic Orchard - ICCS, Universities of Cambridge and Kent) 2023-05-25 13:00: Placements talks - Shell and Satavia (Jonathan Itcovitz + Clay Roberts (University of Cambridge)) 2023-05-25 14:00: Scaling Human Supervision and Understanding Social Contexts: Two Key Challenges for Robot Learning in HRI (Marynel Vázquez, Yale University) 2023-05-25 15:00: Past, Present and Future of Wireless Networking (Dr. Mallik Tatipamula, CTO, Ericsson, Silicon Valley) 2023-05-25 15:00: Constructing expressive models using nonparametric Gaussian process convolutions. (Magnus Ross, University of Manchester) 2023-05-26 12:00: Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering (Zhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge)) 2023-05-26 12:00: Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale (Prof Dr Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany) 2023-05-26 13:00: Progenitor niches in the developing pancreas: regulation of cell fate and beyond (Prof. Francesca Spagnoli, Kings College London) 2023-05-26 14:00: Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness (Prof Laura M. Machesky, department of Biochemistry, Cambridge) 2023-05-26 16:00: The fluid dynamics of disease transmission: bubbles, droplets, and microorganisms (GK Batchelor Lecture) (Lydia Bourouiba, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 2023-05-29 16:30: Unveiling Bounded Confidence Dynamics in Sheaf Neural Networks (Olga Zaghen, University of Trento) 2023-05-29 18:00: MaRF: Representing Mars as Neural Radiance Fields (Lorenzo Giusti, Universita' La Sapienza) 2023-05-29 19:30: The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix (Professor Malcolm Longair, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2023-05-30 13:00: Hypergraph Factorisation for Multi-Tissue Gene Expression Imputation (Ramon Vinas Torne) 2023-05-30 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Will Greedy, University of Bristol) 2023-05-30 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Trystan Surawy-Stepney, University of Leeds) 2023-05-31 11:00: On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge) 2023-06-01 13:00: Machine Learning Applied to Video Compression (Mark Thompson - AMD) 2023-06-01 13:00: Lowering the barrier to entry for GPU acceleration in complex systems simulation (Paul Richmond, Institute of Computing for Climate Science) 2023-06-01 16:00: Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions (Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago) 2023-06-02 12:00: Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP (Dustin Wright (University of Copenhagen)) 2023-06-02 13:00: Molecular mechanisms of oocyte specification in female germline cysts (Dr. Dmitry Nashchekin, Gurdon Institute ) 2023-06-02 16:00: Tumor cell metastasis: Modeling the long and treacherous journey in the circulation and escape at the metastatic site (Roger D Kamm, MIT) 2023-06-06 13:00: Information Spreading on Networks (Charlotte Out) 2023-06-06 14:00: BSU Seminar: 'Bayesian analysis of diffusion-driven multi-type epidemic models with application to COVID-19' (Dr Lampros Bouranis, Athens University of Economics and Business) 2023-06-06 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia and David Lui) 2023-06-06 15:00: Planet-centred AI for responsible foresights and targeted technological design (Maria Perez-Ortiz, UCL) 2023-06-07 11:00: Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification (Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford) 2023-06-07 13:00: Segment Anything in Medical Images (Dr Bo Wang, University of Toronto and Vector Institute of Artificial Intelligence) 2023-06-07 16:00: Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks (Lovro Vrcek, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR) 2023-06-07 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-06-07 17:30: Microsoft AI & Pizza event (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-06-08 11:00: Modeling crossmodal attention in humanoid robots for HRI in complex social scenarios (Di Fu, University of Hamburg) 2023-06-08 11:00: Modeling crossmodal attention in humanoid robots for HRI in complex social scenarios (Di Fu, University of Hamburg) 2023-06-08 13:00: Explainable and generative AI for actionable insights (Alessio Caciagli - OKRA / Lars Henklemann - CDT) 2023-06-08 13:00: Benchmarking with ReFrame (Tuomas Koskela - RSE, University College London) 2023-06-08 14:00: Population structure and effects of consanguinity on complex disease in British South Asians (Dr Hilary Martin from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge ) 2023-06-08 16:00: Distributed Learning for Scalable Collaboration in Robotic Multi-Agent Systems (Guillaume Sartoretti, National University of Singapore (NUS)) 2023-06-08 16:00: Mind the Data (Noah Smith, University of Washington ) 2023-06-09 12:00: Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference (Marie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University)) 2023-06-09 13:00: Mechanisms and function of de novo DNA methylation in placental development reveals an essential role for DNMT3B (Dr. Courtney Hanna, Department of Physiology, Development and Neurosience) 2023-06-09 16:00: Physics-aware data-driven approaches for time prediction (Luca Magri, Imperial College London) 2023-06-12 11:00: Learning to read x-ray: applications to heart failure monitoring (Polina Golland, MIT) 2023-06-12 19:30: Developments in neuroscience (TBC) (Professor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London) 2023-06-13 13:00: POSTPONED: Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning (Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge)) 2023-06-14 11:00: The LLM Tidal Wave (Katie Collins, University of Cambridge) 2023-06-14 11:00: The LLM Tidal Wave (Katie Collins, University of Cambridge) 2023-06-15 12:00: AI for Sound (Prof. Mark Plumbley, University of Surrey) 2023-06-15 13:00: Fpm and Stdlib: Recent developments in the Fortran Ecosystem (Laurence Kedward, RSE, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol) 2023-06-15 14:00: WISE(Wearable Intelligent Sensors & Electronics) Research and Applications (Prof. Xueji Zhang, Shenzhen University) 2023-06-15 15:00: Monitoring and Improving QoE for the home network via large scale CPE deployment. (Iain Fraser, Netduma) 2023-06-16 12:00: Knowledge Issues and Language Models (James Thorne (KAIST)) 2023-06-16 14:00: Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain Energy (Prof Zdenek Bazant ) 2023-06-16 16:00: Frictional fluid dynamics and viscously stable pattern formation (Bjornar Sandnes, Swansea University) 2023-06-20 13:00: Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning (Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge)) 2023-06-20 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Yashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard) 2023-06-20 16:00: ClimaX: A foundation model for weather and climate (Dr Tung Nguyen, University of California Los Angeles) 2023-06-20 17:00: Protein generation and fitness optimization (Jason Yim, EECS, MIT) 2023-06-21 11:00: Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs (Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy) 2023-06-21 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-06-26 16:00: Multivariate bias corrections of climate simulations: A personal (methodological) view (Dr Mathieu Vrac,  LSCE - Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environment) 2023-06-27 11:00: AI in Medicine Seminar Series (AI in Medicine Seminar Series) 2023-06-27 13:00: Is ChatGPT adequate for decision-making? (Victor O.K. Li, University of Hong Kong) 2023-06-27 14:00: Cambridge ELLIS Seminar Series- Jasper Snoek (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-06-28 11:00: Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks (Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED) 2023-06-28 16:00: castleCSF - A Contrast Sensitivity Function of Color, Area, Spatio-Temporal frequency, Luminance and Eccentricity (Maliha Ashraf, University of Cambridge) 2023-06-29 15:00: Memo: an incremental computation library that powers Dune (Andrey Mokhov, Jane Street) 2023-07-04 14:00: Studying human oncoproteins beyond cancer: lessons learned from the RAS GTPases (Pau Castel, NYU School of Medicine) 2023-07-05 10:00: Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials (Professor J.R. Greer, California Institute of Technology) 2023-07-05 14:00: Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence (Prof. Wanlin Guo, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) 2023-07-05 17:30: Microsoft AI & Pizza (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-07-14 11:00: Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent (Jeremy Bernstein, MIT) 2023-07-18 17:00: Sphere Neural-Network for Higher-level Cognition (Tiansi Dong) 2023-07-19 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-07-20 14:00: Seeing Through Forest - Real-Time Occlusion Removal with Airborne Optical Sectioning (Prof. Oliver Bimber, Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU)) 2023-07-21 10:00: The elastic stability and transitions between the unusual equilibrium states of a special hexagram ring (John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University) 2023-07-21 11:00: Learning from New Zealand’s Covid-19 response, with a particular focus on effective communication (Michael Baker, University of Otago, NZ) 2023-07-21 17:00: Scattering Networks and Singular Values Decomposition: different methods to remove background in Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy image (Lisa Cuneo, University of Genova and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia ) 2023-07-21 18:00: Sediment core analysis using artificial intelligence (Gianluca Carlini) 2023-07-26 13:00: The annotation and practical problems in pathology image analysis with deep learning approaches (Dr Jing Ke, Shanghai Jiaotong University) 2023-07-27 14:00: Dual-Pixel Raindrop Removal (Yizhou Li, Tokyo Institute of Technology) 2023-08-02 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-08-03 11:00: Statistical Neuroimaging Analysis: An Overview (Prof. Lexin Li - University of California, Berkeley) 2023-08-03 14:00: Mathematical tools for measuring the agreement between predicted image quality and observers' quality scores (Samuel Morillas Gómez, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) 2023-08-22 14:00: Ethical and legal aspects of AI training in healthcare (Chiara Gallese, University of Turin) 2023-08-23 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-08-28 17:00: Subgraphs (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-08-31 14:00: Journey of Droplet through various spatio-temporal scales (Prof Saptarshi Basu) 2023-09-07 11:00: Harvesting Computer Science-Vision Science Symbiosis: A Case Study on Color Vision (Yuhao Zhu, University of Rochester) 2023-09-13 14:00: Novelty and developmental systems drift in embryos of flies (Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott from the Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago ) 2023-09-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-09-14 15:00: Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence" (Jay McClelland, Stanford University ) 2023-09-21 14:00: Multiscale design strategies for the progressive failure of architected materials and structures – Focus on interface cracking (Dr Federica Daghia, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay ) 2023-09-26 11:00: Deep Learning Applications for Histological Image Analysis (Matej Halinkovic, Vision and Graphics Group, Institute of Computer Engineering and Applied Informatics, Slovak University of Technology ) 2023-09-29 14:00: Toward Better Bone Regeneration: Innovation in Metallic and Ceramic Scaffolds (Prof. Donghui Zhu,) 2023-10-02 13:30: Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away (Changmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK) 2023-10-03 15:00: BSU Seminar: 'Some advances and applications of robust gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo' (Sam Livingstone, University College London) 2023-10-03 16:00: Restoration at landscape scale to address environmental risk (Taylor Shaw, Endangered Landscapes Programme, Cambridge Conservation Inititative) 2023-10-03 16:00: Solving Partial Differential Equations on Higher Dimensional Manifolds with Neural Networks (Yidi Qi, Northeastern University) 2023-10-04 14:00: Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys (Prof. Upadrasta Ramamurty, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) 2023-10-04 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 I (MR5 at the CMS) 2023-10-05 13:00: Facing the MUSIC: towards a robust and flexible research code for stellar hydrodynamics (Thomas Guillet, Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter) 2023-10-05 14:00: Challenges and solutions in identifying the genes responsible for local adaptation (Professor Michael Whitlock from Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver ) 2023-10-06 12:00: Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs? (Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind)) 2023-10-06 16:00: Spreading of yield-stress fluids (Jean-François Joanny, Curie Institute) 2023-10-09 13:05: Roku: The Challenges of Motion Detection and Object Detection on Edge Cameras in the Home (Luke Johnson-Davies) 2023-10-09 16:15: Cortical Layers in Context and Learning (Randy Bruno, DPAG, University of Oxford) 2023-10-09 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials (Professor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy) 2023-10-10 13:00: Towards More Immersive Photos and Videos (Christian Richardt, Meta Reality Labs) 2023-10-10 14:00: A new look at eye design (Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2023-10-10 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Department of Zoology, Cambridge) 2023-10-10 16:00: Open scientific data: how the UK Polar Data Centre supports open science using FAIR data principles (Dr Sarah Manthorpe) 2023-10-10 16:00: Machine-learning Sasakian and G2 topology on contact Calabi-Yau 7-manifolds (Daattavya Aggarwal, Computer Laboratory) 2023-10-11 14:00: Community and Belonging in your Postgraduate studies (Sarah Hardy - Student Support Services) 2023-10-12 13:00: A random walk through Julia (Valentin Churavy - julialab, MIT) 2023-10-12 14:15: An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control (Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich) 2023-10-13 12:00: Fighting Bad Information with AI (David Corney (Full Fact)) 2023-10-13 13:00: Physical patterning of the cytosol in giant cells (Prof. Amy Gladfelter, Duke University) 2023-10-13 16:00: It’s sink or skim: when solid bodies meet liquid layers (Ryan Palmer, University of Bristol) 2023-10-16 13:05: GSA Capital: Technology in a quant trading firm: how innovation helps stay competitive in today's markets (Mihai Enache) 2023-10-16 16:15: Central representation of protein availability regulates metabolism and behaviour (Clémence Blouet, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and Dept of Clinical Biochemistry, Cambridge) 2023-10-16 19:30: CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab (Dr. Mike Banach, FlexEnable Technology Ltd., Cambridge) 2023-10-17 13:00: On Learning Latent Models with Multi-Instance Weak Supervision (Efi Tsamoura (Samsung AI, Cambridge)) 2023-10-18 11:00: Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling (Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge) 2023-10-18 14:00: Learning generalizable models on large-scale multi-modal data (Yutian Chen - DeepMind) 2023-10-18 15:00: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 II (MR4 at the CMS) 2023-10-18 17:30: Spectral Graph Neural Network: Polynomial Approximation and Optimization (Keke Huang, National University of Singapore) 2023-10-19 11:00: Learning disentangled representation for interpretable language model. / Interactive Narrative Understanding. (Lin Gui and Runcong Zhao, King's College London) 2023-10-19 13:00: Code Execution during peer review with CODECHECK (Daniel Nüst, ifgi, TU Dresden) 2023-10-19 14:00: Using synthetic biology to understand pattern-forming gene regulatory networks and their evolution (Professor Yolanda Schaerli from Department of Fundamental Microbiology, University of Lausanne ) 2023-10-19 14:15: Quantitative Microbiology With Smart Microscopy ( Georgeos Hardo, University of Cambridge) 2023-10-20 12:00: Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks (Leshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2023-10-20 14:00: Measurement, Assessment and Modelling of Heavy Goods Vehicle Energy Consumption (Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED) 2023-10-20 16:00: Stuck in the mud? Channelling, clogging and burrowing in plastic fluids (Duncan R Hewitt, University of Cambridge) 2023-10-23 13:05: Bloomberg: Software Design Dilemmas: Choices We Make In a System With Over Two Million Hits A Day (Zineb Slam, Bloomberg Placement Fall 2017 & Full-Time 2018, Mobile Shared Services Team, Co-Lead of the Bloomberg Women in Technology community in London) 2023-10-23 14:00: TBC (Fernando Santini, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) 2023-10-23 15:00: Cambridge ELLIS Seminar Series- Dr David Barber- Training Energy Based Models (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-10-23 16:15: From Modulation of Neurons and Small Networks to Climate Change (Eve Marder, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.) 2023-10-23 18:00: Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story ( Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. ) 2023-10-24 11:00: A new software tool for the visualization, annotation, and segmentation of biomedical images (Dr. Tristan Whitmarsh, University of Cambridge) 2023-10-24 13:00: AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies (Karolis Martinkus & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche)) 2023-10-24 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Dynamic survival analysis: modelling the hazard function via ordinary differential equations" (Dr F. Javier Rubio, University College London) 2023-10-24 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia, Edward Young) 2023-10-24 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Walid Al Saqaaf, Rebalance Earth) 2023-10-24 17:00: Revolutionizing Biosensing Technologies: Plug and Play Devices in Medical and Agricultural Diagnostics (Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI), Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW 2800) 2023-10-25 11:00: Learning linear models in-context with transformers (Spencer Frei, UC Davis) 2023-10-25 14:00: Polymathic AI: Foundation Models for Science (Miles Cranmer - DAMTP/IoA) 2023-10-26 11:00: ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-10-26 13:00: Fortran 77: It's really C with none of the safeguards (Simon Clifford - RSE, University of Cambridge) 2023-10-27 12:00: Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis (Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google)) 2023-10-27 13:00: The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction (Dr. Alessandro Mongera, University College London) 2023-10-27 14:00: Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites (Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,) 2023-10-27 15:00: K9db: Privacy-Compliant Storage For Web Applications By Construction (Malte Schwarzkopf (Brown University)) 2023-10-27 16:00: Understanding wildfire propagation: an experimental study of parameters affecting Firebrand Transport (Jeffrey R. Koseff, Stanford University) 2023-10-30 13:05: Jane Street: Why Ocaml? (Pedro Flemming, Software Engineer at Jane Street ) 2023-10-30 16:15: The dynamics of motivation: The neural and computational mechanisms of effort when treated as a cost or a benefit (Matt Apps, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham ) 2023-10-30 19:30: Social prescribing - beyond pills (Professor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets) 2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann) 2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann) 2023-10-31 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Samuel Eckmann) 2023-11-01 11:00: Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction (Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge) 2023-11-01 14:00: Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What? (Aditya.Desai & Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports)) 2023-11-01 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 III (MR5 at the CMS) 2023-11-02 11:00: Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI (Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University in Milan, Italy)) 2023-11-02 13:00: Widening Participation in the R Project (Heather Turner - Warwick University and R) 2023-11-03 13:00: Zebrafish trunk neural crest: an in vivo model to understand cell migration under physiological mechanical stress (Dr. Elena Scarpa, Department of Phhysiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2023-11-03 14:00: Friday 3 November - no seminar today (-) 2023-11-03 14:00: Theory of Stability Regions and its Practical Application in Online Stability Assessment of Large-Scale Power Grids (Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell University) 2023-11-03 15:00: Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moon (Sara Hooker (Cohere For AI)) 2023-11-03 16:00: Chaos in confinement: how to make shear-thinning fluids flow thicken (Sujit Datta, Princeton University ) 2023-11-06 16:15: Anti-obesity drug validation and discovery using human neuronal models (Florian Merkle, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge) 2023-11-06 18:00: A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory (Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics ) 2023-11-07 13:00: Multi-Agent Simulation and Learning in TorchRL (Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge)) 2023-11-07 16:00: AI4ER special student session - Literature review knowledge exchange (AI4ER students) 2023-11-08 11:00: Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization (Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge) 2023-11-08 14:00: Calda AI: sustainability for heavy industry (Niall Jeffrey - Calda) 2023-11-08 17:00: Multi-Agent Graph Learning-Based Optimization and its Applications to Computer Networks (Guillermo Bernárdez Gil, UPC Barcelona) 2023-11-09 11:00: One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone (Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan) 2023-11-09 13:00: Sustainability at The Netherlands eScience Center (Niels Drost - Netherlands eScience Centre and NL-RSE) 2023-11-09 14:00: Tracking pathogens in space and time: something old, something new (Dr Lucy van Dorp from UCL Genetics Institute, University College London ) 2023-11-09 14:00: Modelling and analysis of electrical circuits with memristors for neuromorphic computing applications (Anne-Men Huijzer, University of Groningen) 2023-11-09 15:00: Navigating the Open Source Landscape: Insights from Ayan Kumar and Edwin Torok (Ayan Kumar, AMD) 2023-11-09 16:00: Going out on a limb to study mechanisms controlling organ size and proportions (Alberto Rosell-Diez, PDN University of Cambridge) 2023-11-10 12:00: Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing (Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield)) 2023-11-10 13:00: Circuit basis of learning and decision-making (Dr. Marta Zlatic, MRC, Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2023-11-10 14:00: Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact. (Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED) 2023-11-10 14:30: Distributed Control, Estimation and Optimization in Multi-agent Systems (Professor Wei Ren, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside) 2023-11-10 16:00: Culinary fluid mechanics (Maciej Lisicki, University of Warsaw) 2023-11-13 13:05: Goldman Sachs - Quantitative Finance and AI (Matteo Pozzi, Associate on the Applied AI team at Goldman Sachs) 2023-11-13 19:30: ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry (Dr Martin Unwin, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd) 2023-11-14 13:00: RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges (Arne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL)) 2023-11-14 14:00: Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systems (Prof Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich) 2023-11-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Harnessing Extra Randomness: Replicability, Flexibility and Causality" (Richard Guo, Stas Lab, University of Cambridge) 2023-11-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-11-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-11-14 16:00: Applications of IceNet AI sea ice forecasts for Arctic wildlife conservation (Ellie Bowler, British Antarctic Survey) 2023-11-15 11:00: A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo (Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge) 2023-11-15 13:00: 2DeteCT - A large 2D expandable, trainable, experimental Computed Tomography dataset for machine learning (Maximilian Kiss, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) 2023-11-15 14:00: Generative AI for actionable insights (Loubna Bouarfa & Alessio Caciagli - Okra.ai) 2023-11-15 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 IV (MR5 at the CMS) 2023-11-16 11:00: Language Understanding for the Political Sciences (Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim) 2023-11-16 13:00: Teaching RSE for Digital Humanities (Mary Chester-Kadwell) 2023-11-16 14:00: The evolution of organs and cell types. (Dr Margarida Cardoso Moreira from The Francis Crick Institute, London ) 2023-11-16 14:15: Passivity-based control of underactuated surgical robots (Enrico Franco, Imperial College) 2023-11-17 14:00: The rational design of sociotechnical systems in healthcare (Tom Bashford,CUED) 2023-11-17 16:00: APS-DFD - no seminar (None) 2023-11-20 13:05: Neo4j: GenAI with LLMs and Knowledge Graphs (Andreas Kollegger of Neo4j, Inc. (@akollegger)) 2023-11-20 18:00: The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting (Professor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering ) 2023-11-21 13:00: Hybrid Multi-Modal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data (Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge)) 2023-11-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A new frequentist implementation of the Daniels and Hughes bivariate meta-analysis model for surrogate outcomes" (Dan Jackson, AstraZeneca) 2023-11-21 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard) 2023-11-21 16:00: Probabilistic detection and tracking of icebergs in the Amundsen Sea Embayment from synthetic aperture radar (Ben Evans, British Antarctic Survey) 2023-11-21 16:00: Exploiting Structure for Scalable Design and Verification of Complex Systems (Professor Murat Arcak, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley) 2023-11-21 17:00: Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions (Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)) 2023-11-22 11:00: Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems (Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge) 2023-11-22 14:00: How to Fight Financial Crime with AI (David Sutton - Featurespace) 2023-11-23 11:00: A sanity check on emergent properties (Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen) 2023-11-23 13:00: Multiscale synthesis of coupled dynamic gene expression during neural development (Professor Nancy Papolopulu, School of Medical Sciences, University of Manchester ) 2023-11-23 13:00: How not to write a convection parameterisation code? (Mike Whitall - UK Meteorological Office) 2023-11-23 14:00: Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial colonies (Aidan Brown, Edinburgh University) 2023-11-23 15:00: DINC: Toward Distributed In-Network Computing / Exploring the Benefits of Carbon-Aware Routing (changgang.zheng@eng.ox.ac.uk, sawsan.elzahr@eng.ox.ac.uk) 2023-11-23 16:00: Dissecting neuronal circuits underlying visual cognition: from macaques to marmosets (Keita Tamura, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) 2023-11-24 12:00: Exploring the Mechanisms of Associative Plasticity within and between Hippocampal Areas CA1 and CA2 (Sreedharan Sajikumar, Dept of Physiology, NUS, Singapore) 2023-11-24 12:00: Efficiency by Construction (Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge)) 2023-11-24 13:00: TBC (Dr. Michalis Barkoulas, Imperial College London) 2023-11-24 14:00: Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering (Prof Kumar Shanmugam, Professor of Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing, University of Glasgow) 2023-11-24 16:00: Visualising fluid mechanics phenomena via quasi-bases (Catherine Drysdale, University of Birmingham) 2023-11-27 10:00: Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series (Dr. Agnieszka Słowik, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Mariana Lindo, Critical Techworks) 2023-11-27 12:30: Exploring cell heterogeneity in health and disease using single-cell proteomics and transcriptomics (Erwin Schoof, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)) 2023-11-27 12:30: Accelerate lunchtime seminar series (Shrankhla Pandey and Dr Samantha Ip) 2023-11-27 13:05: Vaticle: Type theory as the unifying foundation for modern databases (Haikal Pribadi (CS MPhil, Cambridge), CEO/CTO at Vaticle and Christoph Dorn (CS DPhil, Oxford), Head of Research at Vaticle) 2023-11-27 16:15: The many faces of stress: from developmental impacts to stress-related brain disorders (Jeff Dalley, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge) 2023-11-27 19:30: CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases. (Dr. Daniel Ives, Shift Bioscience) 2023-11-28 11:00: Modern Bayesian Experimental Design (Dr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford) 2023-11-28 13:30: Cambridge ELLIS Seminar Series- Prof. Gustau Camps-Valls- 28 Nov 2023- 13:30 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-11-28 13:30: Cambridge ELLIS Seminar Series- Prof. Gustau Camps-Valls- 28 Nov 2023- 13:30 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2023-11-28 16:00: DeepWeather: using NN-based downscaling to improve weather forecasting in New Zealand (Emily O'Riordan, Bodeker Scientific) 2023-11-29 11:00: Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between (Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG)) 2023-11-29 14:00: Rage against the Turing Machine? (Rahul Tyagi (CEO) & Arlind Visha (Quantum Algorithms Engineer) + Angus Lockhart - SECQAI) 2023-11-29 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 V (MR5 at the CMS) 2023-11-30 14:15: New Innovative Idea on Bio Medical Research (Makoto Kaneko, Meijo University and Osaka University.) 2023-11-30 15:00: Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models (David Jurgens, University of Michigan) 2023-12-01 12:00: Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP (Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere)) 2023-12-01 13:00: New models to study human embryo implantation and early development (Dr. Peter Rugg-Gunn, Babraham Institute) 2023-12-01 14:00: Data-driven ML-enhanced approaches to support accelerated materials design for extreme conditions (Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University) 2023-12-01 14:00: Sound Control Synthesis with Logics and Data (Professor Alessandro Abate, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford) 2023-12-01 16:00: Solution discovery in fluid dynamics using neural networks (Ching-Yau Lai, Stanford University) 2023-12-04 12:30: Accelerate lunchtime seminar series (Ander Biguri, Oisin Kim, Isaac Sebenius) 2023-12-04 18:30: Adrian Christmas Lecture: Wiring the Brain and Local Translation (Christine Holt, PDN, Cambridge ) 2023-12-05 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Unravelling the mechanisms and decision-making logic of biological systems" (Giorgos Minas, St Andrew's University) 2023-12-06 14:00: An ancient ecospecies of Helicobacter pylori found in Indigenous populations and animal adapted lineages (Professor Daniel Falush from Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection, Chinese Academy of Sciences ) 2023-12-07 16:00: Human lung organoid models of lung development and disease (Emma Rawlins, The Gurdon Institute/PDN, Univeristy of Cambridge) 2023-12-12 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Hyper-Localization and Predictive Modeling of Rapid Lung Function Decline in Cystic Fibrosis" (Rhonda Szczesniak and Emrah Gecili, both from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati) 2024-01-09 14:00: Sense, Think, Act: Decision and Control, from Biology to Technology (Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford) 2024-01-11 14:00: Image quality assessment across viewing distances: A comparison study of CSF-based and rescaling-based metrics (Dounia Hammou, Univ. of Cambridge) 2024-01-12 14:00: Data informativity: a new perspective on data-driven analysis and control (Professor Kanat Camlibel, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen) 2024-01-16 13:00: Vibe checks and red teaming: why ML researchers are increasingly reverting to manual evaluation (Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge)) 2024-01-16 16:00: Gaussian Processes at the Helm(holtz): A more fluid model for ocean currents (Renato Berlinghieri, Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT) 2024-01-17 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 I (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-01-18 13:00: Debugging HPC applications (Tom Meltzer - ICCS University of Cambridge) 2024-01-18 14:00: AI Engineering as Design Engineering: Creating User-Centric AI Systems ( Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge) 2024-01-18 15:00: Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness? (He He, New York University) 2024-01-18 15:00: Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness? (He He, New York University) 2024-01-18 16:00: Our archael ancestry: cell division from arhaea to eukaryotes (Buzz Baum, MRC-LMB) 2024-01-18 16:00: Spatiotemporal contrast sensitivity functions; OLED calibration (Maliha Ashraf, University of Cambridge) 2024-01-19 12:00: Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning (Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge)) 2024-01-19 14:00: In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces (Professor Daniele Dini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College) 2024-01-19 16:00: The elephant in the room: fluid dynamics in the age of machine learning (Matthew Juniper, CUED) 2024-01-19 17:30: On the Disappointment of Revolutions (Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University) 2024-01-22 12:30: Accelerate lunchtime seminar series (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-01-22 13:05: Ab Initio: Processing High Volume IoT Data (James Wyper) 2024-01-22 19:30: CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder. (Professor Sabine Bahn, Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research ) 2024-01-23 13:00: Beyond chromatin: Histones as developmental regulators in Drosophila (Professor Amanda Amodeo from Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA ) 2024-01-23 13:00: Accelerating Generative AI on Custom Hardware Accelerators - Challenges and Opportunities (Partha Maji (Tenstorrent)) 2024-01-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Causal machine learning for biomarker subgroup discovery in randomised trials". (Paul Newcombe, GlaxoSmithKline) 2024-01-23 14:00: Cambridge ELLIS seminar series – Dr Tian Xie – 23 Jan 2024 – 2pm (Dr Tian Xie ) 2024-01-23 16:00: Machine learning assisted evidence synthesis to support evidence-based policy on climate change (Dr Max Callaghan, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Berlin) 2024-01-24 14:00: Sustainable academic performance (Sarah Hardy - Student Support Services) 2024-01-24 19:00: Personalising Crutch Geometries through Bayesian Optimisation (Riccardo Conci, University of Cambridge) 2024-01-25 13:00: Software architecture: between rigid process and ´somehow I manage´ approach (Jasmin Jahić - Computer Lab, University of Cambridge) 2024-01-25 14:00: The Mechanics of Cancer Cell Division (Dr Helen Matthews from School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield ) 2024-01-25 16:00: Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models. (Tatsunori Hashimoto) 2024-01-26 12:00: Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths (Tiago Pimentel) 2024-01-26 14:00: Dynamic rupture behavior and friction evolution revealed by laboratory experiments using ultra high-speed digital image correlation (Prof Vito Rubino École Centrale de Nantes, France) 2024-01-26 16:00: Celestial fluid mechanics: the nonlinear gas dynamics of discs around stars and black holes (Gordon Ogilvie, DAMTP) 2024-01-26 17:30: The Genetic Revolutions (Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester) 2024-01-29 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens (Professor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics ) 2024-01-30 12:00: Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series (Dr Dimitris Spathis, Senior Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs and Dr Katharina Zühlsdorff, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Psychology) 2024-01-30 13:00: Text-and-audio methods (Catalina Cangea (Google DeepMind)) 2024-01-30 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Semiparametric posterior corrections" (Andrew Yiu, University of Oxford) 2024-01-30 16:00: Generalization vs Specialization in Computer Vision for Ecology (Assoc Prof Sara Beery, Faculty of Artificial Intelligence and Decision-Making, CSAIL, MIT) 2024-01-31 14:00: DiSE project presentations (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-01-31 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 II (MR5 at CMS) 2024-02-01 11:00: Geographically Grounded Language Models (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-02-01 13:00: Web Applications for Research: How to navigate tech stacks, dev-ops and UI/UX (Mark Turner - Head of RSE, Newcastle University) 2024-02-01 14:00: Epigenetic Inheritance (Dr Nicola Iovino from Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg) 2024-02-02 12:00: This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP (Lisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam) 2024-02-02 13:00: TBA (Hansong Ma, University of Birmingham) 2024-02-02 14:00: Role of Phase Transformation on Shock Compression Behavior of Iron (Dr Vatsa Gandhi, Ashby Fellow) 2024-02-02 14:30: Nanovoid Irradiation Hardening in Metals: A Mesoscale Perspective". (Dr Ashley Roach) 2024-02-02 16:00: Turbulent-laminar patterns (Laurette Tuckerman, ESPCI Paris) 2024-02-02 17:30: Are Revolutions Justified? (Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics) 2024-02-05 12:30: Accelerate lunchtime seminar series (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-02-05 12:30: Functional studies of genetic variation using precision genome editing (Dr Francisco J Sanchez-Rivera, Koch Institute at MIT) 2024-02-05 16:15: The Impact of Individual GABA Cells in Developing and Adult Cortex (Rosa Cossart, INMED, Marseille, France) 2024-02-05 19:30: CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC (Professor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre) 2024-02-06 13:00: Towards Learning-Powered Networked Systems (Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2024-02-06 16:00: Online-Learned Neural Network Chemical Solver for Stable, Fast, and Long-Term Global Simulations of Atmospheric Chemistry (Dr Makoto Kelp, NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Earth System Science, Stanford University) 2024-02-07 11:00: Bayesian coresets (Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-07 14:00: All molecules are interesting (Jonathan Goodman - Chemistry) 2024-02-07 14:30: Homotopy methods for convex optimization (Andreas Klingler (Innsbruck)) 2024-02-08 13:00: When the non-coding codes: Mining the microproteome for novel regulators of cancer cell plasticity (Dr Maria Abad from Altos Labs, Cambridge ) 2024-02-08 13:00: NixOS: Pros and cons of truly reproducible builds (Ben Orchard - ICCS, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-08 16:00: Horizonal gene transfer in transmissible cancers (Prof. Elizabeth Murchison) 2024-02-08 16:00: Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings. (Swabha Swayamdipta, University of Southern California) 2024-02-09 12:00: Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators (Clara Meister, ETH Zurich) 2024-02-09 13:00: Drosophila AP patterning: networks, dynamics, evolution, and robustness (Erik Clark, Department of Genetics) 2024-02-09 14:00: Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution (Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong) 2024-02-09 16:00: Lahars and Huaycos: modelling erosive flash floods (Andrew Hogg, University of Bristol) 2024-02-09 17:30: A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis (Dr Iain McGilchrist) 2024-02-12 13:05: TechWolf: Revolutionizing HR Tech: Ethical AI Integration in the Age of Generative Models (Jens-Joris Decorte, lead AI Scientist at TechWolf) 2024-02-12 16:15: Using brain organoids to understand cell fate (Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB, Cambridge) 2024-02-12 18:00: Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair (Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering) 2024-02-13 13:00: Learning to Receive Help: Intervention-Aware Concept Embedding Models (Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge)) 2024-02-13 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models" (Ida Scheel, University of Oslo) 2024-02-13 16:00: Catastrophe Models (Dr Gordon Woo, Moody's RMS) 2024-02-14 11:00: GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas) (Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-14 14:00: Unlocking the Power of Transfer Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Mobile App Predictions in Data-Scarce Environments (Bending Spoons) 2024-02-14 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Changmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK)) 2024-02-14 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 III (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-02-15 11:00: Prosocial Language Models (Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College) 2024-02-15 13:00: Research Software Engineering in the Arts and Humanities : a community-driven approach (Anna-Maria Sichani - Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London) 2024-02-15 14:00: Machine Learning for Quantum Computing (Professor Florian Marquadt Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlange, Germany) 2024-02-15 14:00: Accommodating magnitude and rate-limits in model reference adaptive control systems (Matthew Turner, University of Southampton) 2024-02-15 16:00: Modelling Blood Cell Development across Molecular and Tissue Scales (Bertie Gottgens, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2024-02-15 16:00: Towards Human Systems Biology of Sleep/Wake Cycles: Phosphorylation Hypothesis of Sleep (Dr Hiroki Ueda, University of Tokyo, RIKEN BDR) 2024-02-16 12:00: Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages (Priyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind) 2024-02-16 14:00: Full field measurement technique enabling the discovery of new materials laws (Dr Zifan Wang, CUED) 2024-02-16 14:30: Data-parallel based deep learning for the model order reduction of parametrized partial differential equations (Dr Nirav Vashant Shah, CUED) 2024-02-16 15:00: Postdoc talks (Postdoc talks, DAMTP) 2024-02-16 17:00: Opinion dynamics inspired sheaf neural networks. (Ferran Hernandez Caralt) 2024-02-16 17:30: The Exoplanet Revolution (Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-19 12:30: Accelerate lunchtime seminar series (Mike Mamalakis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Aditya Ravuri, PhD student, Department of Computer Science and Technology) 2024-02-19 13:05: Monumo: Reinventing Electric Motors (Dr Chris Doran - AI Research Fellow and Head of 3D at Monumo and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College) 2024-02-19 16:15: Cortical integration of vestibular and visual signals for self-motion perception and spatial navigation (Sepiedeh Keshavarzi, Dept of PDN, Cambridge) 2024-02-19 19:30: CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices (Dr. Simon Thomas, Paragraf Ltd.) 2024-02-20 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Statistical modelling for state-of-the-art gene editing experiments" (Magdalena Strauss, European Bioinformatics Institute ) 2024-02-20 16:00: The role of sulphur from human emissions in driving climate change (Vichawan Sakulsupich, Yusuf Hamied Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-21 11:00: Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks (James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec ) 2024-02-21 14:00: Contrastive Learning and High-Redshift Quasars (Xander Byrne ) 2024-02-21 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge)) 2024-02-22 11:00: Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements. (Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich) 2024-02-22 13:00: Pydantic: A Package for Picky Python Programmers (Paul Sharp - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) 2024-02-22 14:15: Neuromorphic sensing and computing in today’s AI landscape (Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences) 2024-02-22 15:00: How debuggable is your (compiler-optimised) program? (Stephen Kell, King's College London) 2024-02-22 16:00: Mapping DNA replication stress in cancer cells and parasites with long-read sequencing and AI (Dr Michael Boemo) 2024-02-22 17:00: Towards Machine Learning-enhanced Monitoring (Andrea Brunello and Nicola Saccomanno, University of Udine) 2024-02-23 12:00: Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models (Pasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh) 2024-02-23 13:00: The presomitic mesoderm as a platform to integrate morphogenesis and mechanotransduction (Alessandro Mongera, University College London) 2024-02-23 13:00: Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings (David Burt, MIT) 2024-02-23 14:00: Scientific machine learning - opportunities and challenges from an industrial perspective (Dr Dirk Hartmann, Siemens) 2024-02-23 16:00: Slippery flows in nature and industry (Katarzyna Kowal, University of Glasgow) 2024-02-23 17:30: Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art (Professor Frances Spalding) 2024-02-26 12:30: Cell size - A new hallmark of aging? (Jette Lengefeld, University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institute) 2024-02-26 14:00: A data scientific perspective on arithmetic (School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Westminster) 2024-02-26 16:15: ANNUAL LECTURE: Saving the Synapse in Development and Alzheimer’s Disease (Carla Shatz, Stanford University, U.S.A. ) 2024-02-26 18:00: The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope (Professor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology) 2024-02-27 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2024-02-27 15:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge)) 2024-02-27 16:00: Do environmental considerations feature into global digital governance? (Dr Marielza Oliveira, Director for Partnerships and Operational Programme Monitoring, Communication and Information, UNESCO) 2024-02-28 11:00: An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes (Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu) 2024-02-28 14:00: ‘Putting Theory into Practice – Myths and Misconceptions from the World of Systematic Investing’ (Chris Longworth - Gam.com) 2024-02-28 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 IV (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-02-29 11:00: What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out? (Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University) 2024-02-29 13:00: TexGen - Open-Source Software for Geometric Modelling of Textile Structures (Louise Brown - University of Nottingham) 2024-02-29 14:00: Cambridge ELLIS seminar series – Dr Rika Antonova – 29 Feb 2024 – 2pm (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-02-29 14:00: Enhancing Video Generation with Explicit 3D Guidance for Accurate Motion Simulation (fy277@cam.ac.uk) 2024-02-29 15:00: Building patterning-dependent chromatin states during development. (Professor Shelby Blythe from Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, USA ) 2024-02-29 15:00: Using outbreak games to learn about real outbreaks (Andrés Colubri, University of Massachusetts) 2024-02-29 16:00: Nutritional programming by maternal over-nutrition: a developing obesity crisis. (Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge) 2024-02-29 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Susan Ozanne, MRC, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-01 12:00: LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has Changed (Emma Strubell, CMU) 2024-03-01 13:00: The development and evolution of the mammalian jaw joint (Neil Anthwal, Kings College London) 2024-03-01 14:00: Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior (Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia) 2024-03-01 16:00: Freezing of drops (Detlef Lohse, University of Twente) 2024-03-01 17:30: Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells (Professor Nick Lane, University College London) 2024-03-04 12:30: Accelerate lunchtime seminar series (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-03-04 16:15: Estradiol feedback on the reproductive neuroendocrine system (Sue Moenter, University of Michigan, U.S.A. ) 2024-03-04 19:30: CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots. (Professor Martin Fodstad Stølen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd.) 2024-03-05 13:00: POSTPONED (Prof. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL)) 2024-03-05 14:15: Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic Systems (Panagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Tech ) 2024-03-05 16:00: The Spatial Confounding Environment (Dr Mauricio Tec, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard University) 2024-03-06 14:00: Know Your System: Harness the Power of The Dawn Supercomputer (Maxwell Cai - Intel) 2024-03-06 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms (Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London.) 2024-03-07 14:00: Pathogens through space and time - Lessons from high-throughput screening for ancient pathogen DNA (Professor Martin Sikora from Section for Geogenetics, University of Copenhagen ) 2024-03-07 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Uncertainty Quantification in the Digital Medicine Era" (Marcos Matabuena, Harvard University ) 2024-03-07 14:00: Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges (Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University) 2024-03-07 14:00: Learning to Predict and to Act - Exploring Structure in World Models and Latent Spaces (Ingmar Posner, Oxford University ) 2024-03-07 16:00: Mathematical modelling to develop insights into cancer evolution (Dr Weini Huang) 2024-03-08 12:00: Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers (Alexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig ) 2024-03-08 13:00: Controlling the cell cycle (Paul Nurse, Francis Crick Institute) 2024-03-08 14:00: Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design (Roger Reed, University of Oxford) 2024-03-08 16:00: Transport, aggregation and wetting of assemblies of soft fibres (Camille Duprat, LadHyX, École Polytechnique) 2024-03-08 17:30: How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China (Ms Tania Branigan) 2024-03-11 16:15: Structuring experience in cognitive spaces (Christian Doeller, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany ) 2024-03-11 18:00: Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart (Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-12 10:00: Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning (Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) 2024-03-12 10:00: Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning (Jonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge) 2024-03-12 12:00: BSU Seminar: "Using Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data to Investigate the Causal Effect of Salvage Therapy after Prostatectomy" (Dimitris Rizopoulos, Professor of Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam) 2024-03-12 13:00: TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics (Zhe Wang (DeepMind)) 2024-03-13 11:00: An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method (Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-13 14:00: TBC (Prerak Desai - GSK) 2024-03-13 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 V (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-03-14 14:00: BSU Seminar: “Bayesian behavioural-change epidemic models: is your population alarmed?” (Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary) 2024-03-14 14:00: Perceptual studies with holographic displays (Dongyeon Kim, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-14 14:00: Perceptual studies with holographic displays (Dongyeon Kim, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-14 14:00: Inverting Language Models (Alexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face) 2024-03-14 14:00: Examples of "control" in research and teaching at Physics (Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-14 15:00: Enabling Efficient and Scalable DRAM Read Disturbance Mitigation via New Experimental Insights into Modern DRAM Chips / Methodologies, Workloads, and Tools for Processing-in-Memory: Enabling the Adoption of Data-Centric Architectures. (Giray Yağlıkçı / Geraldo Francisco) 2024-03-14 16:00: Epigenetic priming of embryonic cell lineages in the mammalian epiblast (Miguel Torres, Spanish National Center for Cardiovascular Research) 2024-03-15 12:00: Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it? (Mevan Babakar, Google ) 2024-03-15 14:00: Automated discovery of material models (Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich) 2024-03-15 16:00: Flow and transport in the human placenta: a story with a twist (Igor Chernyavsky, University of Manchester) 2024-03-18 12:30: Accelerate lunchtime seminar series (Adrián Pérez Herrero) 2024-03-18 12:30: Screening Approaches for the Identification of Covalent Peptide Inhibitors (Scott Lovell, University of Bath) 2024-03-19 10:00: Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition (Seán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol) 2024-03-19 15:00: Towards a Unified Model of Contrast Sensitivity (Maliha Ashraf, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-20 11:00: Neural likelihood-free inference (Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge) 2024-03-21 14:00: Psychophysical tests of human visual encoding models (Prof. Thomas S. A. Wallis, Technical University of Darmstadt) 2024-03-21 14:00: SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES (Prof. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. ) 2024-03-21 15:00: A Privacy-Preserving Architecture and Data-sharing Model for Cloud-IoT Applications (Dr Jenjira Jaimunk, Department of Computer Engineering, Chiang Mai University) 2024-03-22 09:00: SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting (Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh) 2024-03-22 15:00: Tech law vs tech design: why can't we be friends? (Dr Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews) 2024-03-26 12:00: Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series (Dr Delshad Vaghari (University of Cambridge) and Irina Zhang (Astrazeneca)) 2024-04-12 13:00: A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma (Dr Omer Bayraktar) 2024-04-12 13:00: A spatiotemporal malignant cell trajectory underlies tumour heterogeneity in glioblastoma (Omer Bayraktar, Wellcome Sanger Institute) 2024-04-17 11:00: AI Control (Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge) 2024-04-18 14:00: E. coli and the Game of Clones (Professor Jukka Corander from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge and University of Oslo) 2024-04-18 14:00: Perceptual Quality Assessment of NeRF and Neural View Synthesis Methods for Front-Facing Views (Hanxue Liang, Univ. of Cambridge) 2024-04-24 11:00: Discussing the Stanford AI Report (Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen) 2024-04-24 11:00: Discussing the Stanford AI Report (Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge) 2024-04-24 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 I (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-04-25 13:00: Tagging Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculptures Using Multi-Label Image Classification ML Techniques (Zeynep Aki - RSE, University of Durham) 2024-04-25 14:00: Vector Genomics and the Malaria Cell Atlas (Dr Mara Lawnikzak from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge ) 2024-04-25 14:00: Multiresolution Mesh Rendering Engine - Practicalities and Performance ( Maxwell Pettett, Univ. of Cambridge) 2024-04-25 15:00: Differentially private M-estimation via noisy optimization (Po-Ling Loh) 2024-04-25 16:00: Eating and Walking - how cells manage their energy budget during migration and invasion (Laura Machesky, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge) 2024-04-25 16:00: Large language models for enabling constructive online conversations (Kristina Gligorić, Stanford University) 2024-04-25 17:30: Microsoft Cambridge AI Pizza Event on 25th April (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-04-26 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-04-26 13:00: Differential tissue deformability underlies fluid pressure driven shape divergence of the embryonic brain and spinal cord (Susannah McLaren, Gurdon Institute) 2024-04-26 16:00: Mathematical Models for Evaporating Sessile Droplets (Stephen Wilson, University of Strathclyde) 2024-04-29 12:30: Programmed evolution: Using asexual gene drives to sculpt tumor populations and combat genetic diversity (Justin Pritchard, Penn State College of Engineering) 2024-04-29 16:15: Egocentric and allocentric representations in cortical structures (Michael Hasselmo, Boston University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 2024-04-29 19:30: CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics? (Professor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2024-04-30 13:00: The UK AI Safety Institute (Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge & UK AI Safety Institute)) 2024-04-30 16:00: THE ROLE OF SULFUR FROM HUMAN EMISSIONS IN DRIVING CLIMATE CHANGE (Print (Vichawan) Sakulsupich - University of Cambridge - Department of Chemistry) 2024-04-30 16:00: THE ROLE OF SULFUR FROM HUMAN EMISSIONS IN DRIVING CLIMATE CHANGE (Print (Vichawan) Sakulsupich - University of Cambridge - Department of Chemistry) 2024-05-01 11:00: Mean Field Theory of NNs (Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge) 2024-05-01 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Rui Xia, Youjing Yu) 2024-05-02 11:00: Language modelling for the sake of language modelling (Nikos Aletras, University of Sheffield) 2024-05-02 13:00: Optimal approaches with Zig (Fergus Baker - University of Bristol) 2024-05-02 14:00: Mutate everything: mapping the energetic and allosteric landscapes of proteins at scale (Professor Ben Lehner from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge ) 2024-05-02 16:00: Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos (Rob Morris (IMPA Rio)) 2024-05-03 11:00: From Machine Learning Parameterization to Full Model Emulation (David John Gagne - Head of Machine Integration and Learning for Earth Systems, NCAR) 2024-05-03 13:00: An ancient regulatory network sets the position of the forebrain in chordates (Elia Benito-Gutierrez, Department of Zoology/Genentech) 2024-05-03 14:00: Self-assembled active actomyosin gels spontaneously curve and wrinkle similar to biological cells and tissues ( Prof. Anne Bernheim, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) 2024-05-03 16:00: The scaling of the drag force on an accelerating plate (Jerry Westerweel, TU Delft) 2024-05-07 15:00: When will we have intelligent robots? (Professor Jitendra Malik, Berkeley ) 2024-05-07 16:00: Measuring avian species abundance with bioacoustics and machine learning (Ruari Marshall Hawkes - Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge ) 2024-05-08 12:15: Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps (James Whittington, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University & Oxford University) 2024-05-08 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 II (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-05-09 11:00: "What it can create, it may not understand" Studying the Limits of Transformers. (Nouha Dziri, Allen Institute for AI) 2024-05-09 13:00: Open Discussion and Soft Launch of a CambRidge Community (Thomas Zwagerman, BAS, Charlie Gao, Hibiki AI, Jack Atkinson, ICCS/University of Cambridge) 2024-05-09 15:00: Competition for phospholipids drives astrocyte morphogenesis in the CNS (Professor Marc Freeman from The Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA) 2024-05-09 16:00: Behavioural and mechanical heterogeneities underpin cell migration essential for mouse anterior patterning (Shankar Srinivas, Professor of Developmental Biology in the Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics at the University of Oxford, based at the Institute for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine. ) 2024-05-10 13:00: Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models (Dominik Stammbach, ETH Zurich) 2024-05-10 13:00: Multi-tissue tectonics enable self-assembly of the vertebrate body axis (Benjamin Steventon, Department of Genetics) 2024-05-10 16:00: Koopman Operator Theory Based Machine Learning of Dynamical Systems (Igor Mezic, UC Santa Barbara) 2024-05-13 14:00: Quickest Change Detection Using Mismatched CUSUM (Prof. Sean Meyn, University of Florida) 2024-05-13 19:30: CSAR lecture: Creating brain organoids to uncover what makes us human. (Dr. Madeline Lancaster, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology) 2024-05-16 13:00: From research to operation - development of a space weather forecast system (Sarah Glauert & Peter Kirsch - British Antarctic Survey) 2024-05-16 14:00: Data Selection for Pre-training and Instruction-tuning of LLMs (Danqi Chen, Princeton University) 2024-05-16 15:00: Towards identifying neglected, obsolete and abandoned IoT and OT devices (Ricardo Yaben, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)) 2024-05-17 12:00: The intersection of Interpretability and Fairness (Giuseppe Attanasio, Milan NLP) 2024-05-17 14:00: Unravelling the Mechanics of MAX Phases: Investigating Deformation and Failure Mechanisms in Single and Polycrystalline Structures (Professor Miladin Radovic, Texas A&M University) 2024-05-17 14:00: PhD students' talks (Speakers listed in abstract) 2024-05-20 10:00: Integrated Spin model with global inhibition for decision making (Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science) 2024-05-21 12:00: Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series (Dr. Jonathan Weir-McCall and Konstantin Hemker) 2024-05-21 12:15: AI4ER annual showcase (University of Cambridge) 2024-05-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Making predictions under intervention to avoid causal blind spots in treatment decisions" (Prof Niels Peek, THIS Institute, University of Cambridge) 2024-05-22 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 III (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-05-23 11:00: Incremental Accumulation of Linguistic Context in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks (Refael Tikochinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 2024-05-23 13:00: Computational aspects of bio-image analysis with focus on lightsheet microscopy (Leila Muresan - PDN, University of Cambridge) 2024-05-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: "The Topological Properties of the Protein Universe" (Christian Madsen, University of Melbourne) 2024-05-23 14:00: Nonlinear motion control (Sebastiaan J.A.M. van den Eijnden, Eindhoven University of Technology) 2024-05-23 16:00: How innate immune cells adapt to environment and function: diverse tales of mitochondria (Stefanie Wculek, IRB (Biomedical Research Institute, Barcelona)) 2024-05-24 10:00: Circuit for memory-based action selection (Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) 2024-05-24 12:00: Open-Endedness and General Intelligence (Tim Rocktäschel, University College London ) 2024-05-24 12:00: Leveraging AI for Breakthroughs in Genomic Research (Mike Sikic, Genome Institute of Singapore ) 2024-05-24 14:00: EQUALITY-BASED FORMULATION FOR NON-SMOOTH VIBRATING SYSTEMS (Prof. Christopher Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology) 2024-05-24 16:00: Biomedical Fluid Mechanics: applications in urology and regenerative medicine (Sarah Waters, University of Oxford) 2024-05-24 17:15: Unveiling Causal Drivers of Non-Communicable Diseases with Interpretable Models (Sheresh Zahoor) 2024-05-27 19:30: CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning (Dr Alice Cicirello, Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Group, Department of Engineering) 2024-05-28 16:00: The role of AI in decision-making about air pollution emission control decisions (Ernani Choma - Harvard University, School of Public Health) 2024-05-29 11:00: A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis (Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge) 2024-05-30 11:00: Practical and Specialised NLP Solutions: The Case of Social Media (Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University) 2024-05-30 13:00: Who said using GPUs was straightforward? - Straightforward GPU programming in SYCL and OpenMP (Tobias Weinzierl - University of Durham) 2024-05-30 14:00: Fit for purpose: the right model for the right robotic task (Marcello Calisti, University of Lincoln) 2024-05-31 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-05-31 16:00: Enhancing confidence in volcanic ash forecasts (Helen Dacre, University of Reading) 2024-06-04 16:00: The UK's national coupled climate model, HadGEM3, and its application to understanding Antarctic sea-ice variability (Tarkan Bilge - British Antarctic Survey) 2024-06-05 14:00: Computational Neuroscience Journal Club (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-06-05 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 IV (MR12 at the CMS) 2024-06-06 14:00: CANCELLED (Chaker Larabi, Université de Poitiers) 2024-06-06 15:00: Generative AI for Science (James Zou, Stanford University) 2024-06-06 16:00: Identifying mechanisms of, and countermeasures to, muscle decline in ageing (Dr Colleen Deane, University of Southampton) 2024-06-07 14:00: Evaluating Large Language Models as Model Systems for Language (Carina Kauf, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences) 2024-06-07 16:00: Quantum computing of fluid dynamics (Yue Yang, Peking University) 2024-06-07 17:00: How deep can LLMs reason? Benchmarking GPT and Llama models on nested mathematical formulas (Flavio Petruzzellis, Universita' di Padova) 2024-06-10 19:30: CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss (Professor Karen P. Steel PhD, FMedSci, FRS, Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London) 2024-06-11 12:00: Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series (Jack Dixon, Gift Mungmeeprued, Bevis Drury) 2024-06-11 16:00: The Digital Revolution of Earth System Modelling (Peter Dueben - European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) 2024-06-13 11:00: Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs? (Shiwei Liu, University of Oxford) 2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) 2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) 2024-06-13 11:00: Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis (Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) 2024-06-13 13:00: Time-parallel integration and phase averaging for the rotating shallow water equations on the sphere (Hiroe Yamazaki - Imperial College London) 2024-06-13 14:00: The effect of viewing distance and display peak luminance - HDR AV1 video streaming quality dataset (Dounia Hammou, Univ. of Cambridge) 2024-06-13 14:00: Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection steps (Charlie Wedd, University of Cambridge) 2024-06-13 14:00: Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection steps (Charlie Wedd, University of Cambridge) 2024-06-13 14:00: Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection steps (Charlie Wedd, University of Cambridge) 2024-06-13 17:30: Microsoft AI&Pizza event- 13 June 2024 (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-06-14 14:00: Inverse design of multiscale structures and meta-materials by topology optimization and dehomogenization (Prof. Ole Sigmund, Technical University of Denmark) 2024-06-14 16:00: The tradeoff governing efficient language model architectures (Sabri Eyuboglu, Stanford University) 2024-06-14 16:00: Entrainment across a turbulent/turbulent interface (Oliver Buxton, Imperial College London) 2024-06-18 10:00: Learning Bayesian inference models of cortical visual processing (Rodrigo Echeveste, sinc(i), Santa Fe, Argentina) 2024-06-18 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A Bayesian framework for incorporating exposure uncertainty into health analyses with application to air pollution and stillbirth" (Joshua Warren, Yale School of Public Health) 2024-06-18 14:00: PaSh: Scaling out Shell Programs, Automatically (Nikos Vasilakis, Brown University) 2024-06-18 16:00: TBC (Cesar Quilodran Casas - Imperial College London) 2024-06-19 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 V (MR4 at the CMS) 2024-06-20 15:00: Picos — Interoperable effects based concurrency for OCaml (Vesa Karvonen, Tarides) 2024-06-24 10:00: Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basis (Ralf Haefner, Department for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester) 2024-06-25 16:00: Earth, Water, & Fire: Assorted Projects in Environmental Data Science with a Human Focus (Dr Robert Rouse, Dept of Computer Science and Technology) 2024-06-26 11:00: Task Alignment (Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge) 2024-07-01 12:30: Digital Cancer Twins: From Mechanistic Insights to Therapeutic Applications (Professor Jasmin Fisher, UCL Cancer Institute) 2024-07-01 13:30: Evaporation dynamics of respiratory-like droplets and their implications on virus infectivity (Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez, Carlos III University of Madrid) 2024-07-04 14:00: The fluid mechanics of splat painting (Roberto Zenit, Brown University) 2024-07-10 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 I (MR15 at the CMS) 2024-07-11 14:00: Trustworthy Data Visualization (Prof. Nicolas Holliman, King's College London) 2024-07-11 15:00: Compiling Distributed System Models with PGo, and Beyond (Finn Hackett) 2024-07-16 15:00: Navigating Privacy Risks in Language Models (Peter Kairouz -- Google) 2024-07-18 16:30: Reinforcement Learning and Learning-guided Search for Generalizability for Multi-agent Mobility Systems (Cathy Wu, MIT) 2024-07-18 16:30: Reinforcement Learning and Learning-guided Search for Generalizability for Multi-agent Mobility Systems (Cathy Wu, MIT) 2024-07-25 14:00: The Cambridge ELLIS Unit Seminar Series - Gabriel Synnaeve (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-07-31 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 II (MR14 at the CMS) 2024-08-21 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 III (MR15 at the CMS) 2024-08-23 17:00: Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data (Luke Braithwaite (University of Cambridge, Cambridge)) 2024-08-27 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Bayesian nonparametric spectral analysis of multivariate time series" (Renate Meyer, University of Aukland) 2024-09-04 12:00: Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series (Speaker to be confirmed) 2024-09-11 14:00: Different Target Prediction Algorithms for Automotive, HRI and VR Digital Twin (Prof. Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science) 2024-09-11 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2024 IV (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-09-19 14:00: Understanding color and gloss perception with deep neural networks (Takuma Morimoto, Fellow, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK) 2024-09-20 15:30: Predictability of midlatitude weather: Butterflies, error growth and AI models (Professor George Craig (LMU, Munich)) 2024-09-24 15:00: Efficient protein flow models with optimal transport flow matching (Alexander Tong - Mila ) 2024-09-26 17:00: Enhancing Climate Prediction with Knowledge-Infused Deep Learning Models (Simone Monaco, Politecnico if Torino) 2024-09-27 14:00: Nonlinear Preconditioning for Implicit Solution of Discretized PDEs (David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) 2024-09-27 17:00: Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data (Luke Braithwaite) 2024-09-30 12:00: Quantitative Biology Seminar (Dr Mohammed Lotfollahi, Wellcome Sanger Institute) 2024-10-07 12:30: Protein genetic architecture is simple, and epistasis can facilitate the evolution of new functions (Assistant Professor Brian Metzger, Purdue University ) 2024-10-09 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 I (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-10-10 11:00: Ten Years of Universal Dependencies (Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE) 2024-10-10 13:00: In the age of the metaverse, metadata is even more important (Chris Wood - EPCC) 2024-10-10 14:00: What can butterfly hybrid zones tell us about the genomic architecture of species barriers? (Dr Konrad Lohse from Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Edinburgh) 2024-10-10 14:00: [CANCELLED] Color-Accurate Camera Capture with Multispectral Illumination and Multiple Exposures [practice talk] (Hongyun Gao, University of Cambridge) 2024-10-10 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports)) 2024-10-10 14:00: The Transformer (OOD) House of Cards (Petar Veličković (Google Deepmind)) 2024-10-10 16:00: Symmetry breaking decisions in stem cells from mouse bi-layered epithelia in development and regeneration. (Dr Silvia Fre - Institute Curie Paris) 2024-10-11 12:00: NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students (Suchir Salhan (University of Cambridge), Matthieu Moulec (University of Cambridge), Paul Siewart (University of Cambridge)) 2024-10-11 13:00: Fate versus free will; how does the environment shape early tumour survival? (Maria Alcolea - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2024-10-11 14:00: Welcome to term and new PhD students (Professor Michael Sutcliffe, Head of Division, Mechanics, Materials and Design) 2024-10-11 16:00: Responsive Hydrogels: perspectives, modelling, and ongoing efforts (Professor Tom Montenegro-Johnson, University of Warwick) 2024-10-11 17:00: Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populations (Ken Harris, University College London) 2024-10-14 16:15: Networks in action: the crucial role of dynamics in networks neuroscience (Petra Vértes, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) 2024-10-14 18:00: Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries (Professor Lisa Hall FRSC CBE, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology) 2024-10-15 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Bayesian latent multi-state modelling for longitudinal health trajectories" (Yu Luo, Kings College London) 2024-10-15 16:00: Hedonic and Homeostatic Mechanisms in Hunger Regulation: Insights into Hypothalamic Circuits (Bayram Yilmaz, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey) 2024-10-17 13:00: Open source research software project life cycles: understanding project maturity successes, and challenge events (Yo Yehudi - Open Life Sciences) 2024-10-17 14:00: Tracking eye position and gaze direction in near-eye volumetric displays [practice talk] (Marek Wernikowski, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland) 2024-10-17 14:00: Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning (Greg Durrett, UT Austin) 2024-10-17 14:00: From parallel computing to parallel machine learning: Harness the power of parallelism for distributed optimization processes (Maxwell Cai (Intel Corporation)) 2024-10-17 14:00: Complex Robotic Systems: Modeling, Control, and Planning using Dual Quaternion Algebra (Bruno Vilhena Adorno, University of Manchester) 2024-10-18 12:00: Truth conditions at scale, and beyond (Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge)) 2024-10-18 13:00: Ageing and age-associated mutations in human haematopoietic stem cells (Elisa Laurenti - Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2024-10-18 14:00: Mechanics and Design of Next-Generation Protective Overlayers for Extreme Environments (Dr Isha Gupta, University of Southampton) 2024-10-18 16:00: The role of surface tension in hydrodynamics: a new perspective (Dr Rajesh Bhagat, DAMTP) 2024-10-21 12:00: Revealing the Unseen: AI's Role in Novel Target Discovery for High Unmet Needs Areas Through Multi-Omics Integration (Namshik Han, Head of Computational Research & AI, Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge ) 2024-10-21 12:00: Revealing the Unseen: AI's Role in Novel Target Discovery for High Unmet Needs Areas Through Multi-Omics Integration (Namshik Han, Head of Computational Research & AI, Milner Therapeutics Institute, University of Cambridge ) 2024-10-21 12:30: Towards a scientific understanding of science: the quantitative study of scientific activity (Hongyu Zhou, Department of Computer Science and Technology) 2024-10-21 12:30: Towards a scientific understanding of science: the quantitative study of scientific activity (Hongyu Zhou, Department of Computer Science and Technology) 2024-10-21 13:05: Jane Street: One Log to Rule Them All - How to Keep State Straight in Distributed System (Matt Else) 2024-10-21 16:00: Modelling contrast matching across luminance levels [practice talk] (Maliha Ashraf, Univ. of Cambridge) 2024-10-21 16:15: Neural representations of learned spatial behaviours (Matthew Nolan, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences (CDBS), University of Edinburgh ) 2024-10-21 19:30: CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response. (Professor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium) 2024-10-22 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models" (Ida Scheel, University of Oslo) 2024-10-23 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 II (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-10-24 13:00: An AI tool for Dementia. (Simon Clifford - RCS, University of Cambridge) 2024-10-24 14:00: Bacterial evolution in the lung (Dr Josie Bryant from Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge ) 2024-10-24 14:00: Learning-based Material Appearance Acquisition and Modeling for Predictive Rendering (Behnaz Kavoosighafi, Linköpings universitet, Sweeden) 2024-10-24 14:00: Maths meets Radiology: developing data science methods for cancer research (Lorena Escudero, Joshua Kaggie, Ander Biguri) 2024-10-24 15:00: Modelling orchestration (Andrew Jeffery, Systems Research Group, Computer Laboratory) 2024-10-24 16:00: LLM Generalization in Social Context (Diyi Yang, Stanford University) 2024-10-25 12:00: Language Modelling with Phonemes (Zebulon Youra Goriely (University of Cambridge)) 2024-10-25 14:00: OptimUS: an open-source Python library for 3D acoustic wave propagation (Dr Pierre Gélat, University College London, UK) 2024-10-25 16:00: Observed delayed onset of turbulence due to shear instability in the ocean (Professor Matthew Alford, University of California San Diego) 2024-10-28 13:05: GSA Capital: Navigating Quantitative Investment: Technology and research in GSA and the challenges of staying competitive in today's markets (Mihai Enache) 2024-10-28 16:15: Different dynamics of learning in entorhinal and hippocampal cortices (Charlotte Boccara, Norwegian Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo) 2024-10-28 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows (Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering) 2024-10-29 12:00: Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series (Raj Jena and Yizhou Wan) 2024-10-29 13:30: Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuits (Daniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel) 2024-10-30 11:00: Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers (Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge)) 2024-10-30 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Mike Croucher, MathWorks) 2024-10-30 14:00: Lippmann Photography: The Art and Science of Multispectral Imagery (Professor Martin Vetterli (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)) 2024-10-31 13:00: Talk Cancelled: Less is more (Anita Faul) 2024-10-31 14:00: PolymathicAI: Scaling up a Generalist AI Model for Science (Dr Miles Cranmer (DAMTP/Physics/IoA)) 2024-10-31 14:00: Iterative Learning Control --- Past, Present, and Future (Eric Rogers, University of Southampton) 2024-10-31 17:00: Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Natasha Jaques, University of Washington) 2024-11-01 12:00: Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models (Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Edinburgh)) 2024-11-01 14:00: Designer alloys for tailored deformation-induced phase transformations: Revealing per-grain behaviour (Dr David Collins, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge ) 2024-11-01 16:00: Generalised Lagrangian Mean: formulation and computation (Professor Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh) 2024-11-04 19:30: CSAR lecture: Next Gen asset tracking using battery-free Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence (Dr. Sabesan Sithamparanathan OBE, PervasID Ltd., St. Johns Innovation Centre, Cambridge) 2024-11-05 13:00: Paying Attention to Efficiency: LLM Deployment on Mobile and Edge Devices (Stefanos Laskaridis, Brave Software) 2024-11-05 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Multi-state modelling to estimate infectious disease burden" (Peter Kirwan, MRC Biostatistics Unit) 2024-11-06 11:00: Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them (Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge) 2024-11-06 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 III (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-11-07 13:00: How the double helix was really discovered, and what Rosalind Franklin thought about it (Professor Matthew Cobb from University of Manchester ) 2024-11-07 13:00: Supporting Digital Humanities Students (Jonathan Blaney - Cambridge Digital Humanities) 2024-11-07 14:00: A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill Rating (Dr Sam Power, University of Bristol) 2024-11-07 14:00: Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What? (Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports)) 2024-11-07 14:00: Adaptive closed loop control: from reflexes to planning (Bernd Porr, University of Glasgow) 2024-11-07 16:00: Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness (Daniel Khashabi, Johns Hopkins University) 2024-11-07 16:00: Molecular mechanisms that regulate the first cell fate decisions in human development (Kathy Niakan, University of Cambridge) 2024-11-08 12:00: 10 Slides on Human Feedback (Max Bartolo (Cohere)) 2024-11-08 14:00: Puncture mechanics of soft solids: A theoretical perspective (Professor Mattia Bacca, University of British Columbia) 2024-11-08 16:00: OpenFOAM: Numerical Simulation in Computational Continuum Mechanics (Professor Hrvoje Jasak, The Cavendish Laboratory) 2024-11-11 13:05: Ab Initio: IoT: High Volume Data Processing from catflaps to consoles (Ben Roche) 2024-11-11 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it? (Professor Ewan St John Smith, Professor of Nociception, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Pharmacology) 2024-11-12 13:00: Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them (Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge)) 2024-11-12 13:30: Geometry of neural representations (Carl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge) 2024-11-12 16:00: Special Joint SAS+MedAI Seminar Series (See info below.) 2024-11-13 11:00: Are we making progress in unlearning?  (Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind)) 2024-11-14 13:00: Programmed DNA elimination in insects (Dr Laura Ross from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, The University of Edinburgh ) 2024-11-14 14:00: How to find a co-founder and start a company after university? (Dominik Diak (Entrepeneur First)) 2024-11-14 14:00: From Holonic Systems to Human-Integrated Systems (Karel Kruger, University of Cambridge) 2024-11-14 15:00: Compiling Distributed System Models with PGo, and Beyond (Finn Hackett, Systopia lab and Software Practices Lab, University of British Columbia) 2024-11-15 12:00: Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models. (Janet B. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford) 2024-11-15 13:00: Understanding actomyosin contractility and force propagation within the zebrafish neural tube: an optogenetic approach (Clare Buckley - University of Manchester) 2024-11-15 14:00: Impacting Medicine with Microfluidics & Nanotechnology: Advancing Diagnostics and Medicine (Professor Utkan Demirci, Stanford University) 2024-11-15 14:00: Generative models as efficient surrogates for molecular dynamics simulations (Simon Olsson - Chalmers University of Technology) 2024-11-15 14:00: Programmable Kernel Abstractions Wanted for Fun (and Profit)! (Theophilus A. Benson, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University) 2024-11-15 16:00: The frozen frontiers of our solar system (Dr Nicole Shibley, DAMTP) 2024-11-18 13:05: Instadeep: Diverse applications of AI in industry (Instadeep team members) 2024-11-18 16:15: Towards understanding adaptive intelligence (Mackenzie Mathis, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland ) 2024-11-18 19:30: CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish? (Dr. Claire Barlow, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge) 2024-11-19 13:00: Bias Mitigation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities (Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge)) 2024-11-19 14:00: BSU Seminar: "IV-learner: learning conditional average treatment effects using instrumental variables" (Karla Diaz Ordaz, University College London ) 2024-11-20 11:00: Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms (Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford)) 2024-11-20 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 IV (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-11-21 13:00: CANCELLED - News from the Palaeolithic: ancient genomes and Neandertal-human interactions (Dr Mateja Hajdinjak from Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) 2024-11-21 13:00: GitHub Essentials for Researchers (Juan Pablo Flores - GitHub Education) 2024-11-21 14:00: AI Meets Theoretical Physics (Dr Sven-Ludwig Krippendorf (Physics/DAMTP)) 2024-11-21 14:00: Predicting antibiotic resistance evolution (Fernanda Pinheiro, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy.) 2024-11-21 14:00: Socially assistive robots: we can do better (online talk) (Prof Shelly Levy-Tzedek (Ben Gurion University)) 2024-11-21 15:30: Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models (Heng Ji, UIUC) 2024-11-22 12:00: Scansion-based Lyric Generation (Yiwen Chen (University of Cambridge)) 2024-11-22 13:00: Mechanical pre-patterning as a general mechanism in early morphogenesis (Fengzhu Xiong - Gurdon Institute) 2024-11-22 14:00: Soft but Tough! Engineering Protein Assemblies and Interfacial Mechanics for Stem Cell Technologies and the Design of Biomimetic Niches (Professor Julien Gautrot, Queen Mary University of London) 2024-11-25 12:30: Protein Evolution in Sequence Landscapes - From Data to Models and Back (Professor Martin Weigt, Institute of Biology, Paris) 2024-11-25 13:05: Act III: Fantastic Beasts and How to Fly Them (George Prosser) 2024-11-25 18:00: Signals from the beginning of the universe (Professor Jo Dunkley OBE, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University) 2024-11-26 13:00: Controlling Behavioral Diversity in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge)) 2024-11-26 13:30: State space models (as alternatives to Transformers) (Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen) 2024-11-26 17:20: Expanding the borders of Multimodal Graph Learning with Sheaf Neural Networks (Mar Gonzàlez i Català) 2024-11-27 11:00: An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers (Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge)) 2024-11-27 14:00: Negative imaginary systems theory: An introduction (Alexander Lanzon, University of Manchester) 2024-11-27 16:00: LLMs and Low-Resource Languages (Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)) 2024-11-28 11:00: Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation (Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich) 2024-11-28 13:00: Developing AlphaFold 3: Biomolecular structure prediction with AI (Dr Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool from DeepMind, London ) 2024-11-28 13:00: Moving mesh methods in Firedrake (Joe Wallwork - ICCS & RCS, University of Cambridge) 2024-11-28 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Loubna Bouarfa (Okra.ai)) 2024-11-28 14:00: Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations (Robert Katzschmann, ETH Zurich) 2024-11-28 15:00: Flow-based Encrypted Traffic Analysis (Daniel Poliakov, Brno University of Technology) 2024-11-28 16:00: The Environment and the Developing Brain: A Complex and Continuing Conversation (Stephen G. Matthews, Canada Research Chair in Early Development and Health, Depts Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Medicine, University of Toronto, and the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health System, Toronto, Canada) 2024-11-29 10:00: Large language models and human cognition (Charles Elkan (Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego)) 2024-11-29 12:00: The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization (Benjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge)) 2024-11-29 13:00: Mechanisms regulating trophoblast development in the human placenta  (Norah Fogarty - King's College London) 2024-11-29 16:00: Plankton Blinders: navigating turbulence with limited information (Professor Christophe Eloy, Centrale Marseille) 2024-11-29 17:00: Constrained Neural Flows (Chandan Gupta) 2024-12-02 12:00: Calabi-Yau metrics through Grassmannian learning and Donaldson's algorithm (Oisin Kim, CST) 2024-12-02 12:30: Unbiased preclinical phenotyping for neuroprotective compounds (Edward Harding, Clinical Biochemistry) 2024-12-02 13:05: Ethicronics: From West Cambridge to Market Square: An upgrade for software answering hardware (security) challenges? (Dr Franck Courbon - CEO Ethicronics) 2024-12-02 19:30: CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy. (Professor Neil Hyatt is Chief Scientific Adviser to Nuclear Waste Services, Aegis Professor of Deep Time at The University of Bristol) 2024-12-03 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Personalized Decision-Making for Infectious Disease Control: Causal Inference and Complex Dependence" (Ivana Malenica, Harvard University) 2024-12-03 14:00: Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks (Brent Doiron, University of Chicago) 2024-12-04 11:00: Learning curve prediction for AutoML (Andy Lin) 2024-12-04 11:00: Learning curve prediction for AutoML (Andy Lin) 2024-12-04 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 V (MR5 at the CMS) 2024-12-05 13:00: Building Fast and Maintainable Software for Multi-Scale Evo-Devo Simulations (Pjotr van der Jagt and Steven Oud - The Sainsbury Laboratory and Dept. of Genetics) 2024-12-05 14:00: Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation (Ziyu Yao, George Mason University) 2024-12-05 14:00: Computation-aware set-based analysis and control (Nikos Athanasopoulos, Queen’s University Belfast) 2024-12-06 13:00: How is limb size controlled during development and repair? New approaches for an old question (Alberto Rosello-Diez - Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience) 2024-12-06 14:00: Inverse Design of Architected Materials: From Mechanics-Based Methods to Data-Driven Methods (Professor Wei Tan, Queen Mary University of London) 2024-12-06 16:00: Wetting and swelling of elastic fibers (Professor Suzie Protière, Sorbonne Université) 2024-12-11 14:00: How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?) (Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University) 2024-12-16 18:30: Camouflage and Sleep, two behaviors to study brain evolution (Gilles Laurent, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany ) 2025-01-07 11:00: Modelling C. elegans pharynx (Dana Sherman, Weizmann) 2025-01-07 15:00: Evaluating dynamical systems hypotheses for pattern generation in motor cortex (Lea Duncker, Columbia) 2025-01-17 14:00: Structural design and optimisation of smart electrodes for Li ion batteries (Professor Patrick Grant, Oxford University) 2025-01-17 15:00: Multi-Head Explainer: A General Framework to Improve Explainability in CNNs and Transformers (Bohang Sun(Bob) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) 2025-01-21 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models" (Ida Scheel, University of Oslo) 2025-01-21 15:00: Data-driven models of neural and behavioural learning (N Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure) 2025-01-22 11:00: Foundation Models in Robotics (Liyou Zhou (Cambridge)) 2025-01-22 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 I (MR5 at the CMS) 2025-01-23 14:00: Precision Medicine - Transforming Healthcare (Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, Vice Principal for Health, Queen Mary University of London and Director of the NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre) 2025-01-23 14:00: How to fight financial crime with AI (Dr Stuart Burrell & Dr Maeve Madigan / Featurespace) 2025-01-23 15:00: OSDB: Turning the Tables on Kernel Data (George V. Neville-Neil, Elephance, Yale, Cambridge) 2025-01-23 15:00: Linear Transformers for Efficient Sequence Modeling (Prof Yoon Kim, MIT) 2025-01-23 16:00: The Motion and Teaming Lab's Work On Multi-Robot Algorithms for Communication Challenging Scenarios (Michael Otte- Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park) 2025-01-24 12:00: Analysing Memorisation in Classification and Translation through Localisation and Cartography (Verna Dankers (University of Edinburgh) ) 2025-01-24 13:00: Investigating the role of sugar metabolism in controlling fate specification during gastrulation (Chaitanya Dingare - Department of Genetics) 2025-01-24 16:00: Towards asymptotic models and minimal seeds for the geodynamo (Professor Steven Tobias, University of Leeds) 2025-01-24 17:30: Bits with Soul (Professor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge) 2025-01-27 12:30: The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5 (Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London) 2025-01-27 14:00: The Demikernel Datapath Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems (Irene Zhang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research) 2025-01-27 16:15: The noradrenergic locus coeruleus, gatekeeper of the mammalian NREM-REM sleep cycle (Anita Lüthi, University of Lausanne, Switzerland) 2025-01-27 19:30: CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing (Dr Sam Grimshaw, The Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-01-28 13:00: SynFlowNet: Design of Synthesisable Molecules with GFlowNets (Miruna Cretu (University of Cambridge)) 2025-01-29 11:00: An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge)) 2025-01-29 11:00: An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation (Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge)) 2025-01-29 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - January 2025 (Greta Markert and Dr Karen Sayal) 2025-01-30 11:00: Between the Lines: Contextual Understanding and Bias in LLMs (Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield) 2025-01-30 13:00: ProSpecPy: Streamlining FTIR Spectroscopy Data Processing (Anshul Tambay - University of Washington and Elizabeth Phillips - Grantham Institute, Imperial College London) 2025-01-30 14:00: Is the bacterial accessory genome adaptive? (Dr John Lees from EMBL – EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton ) 2025-01-30 14:00: Generative Ai.rplane (Thomas Gessey-Jones (physicsx.ai)) 2025-01-30 14:00: Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model (Nanyang Ye, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) 2025-01-31 12:00: Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models (James Thorne (KAIST)) 2025-01-31 14:00: Mechanically-grown morphogenesis of Voronoi-type materials (Dr Zahra Hooshmand Ahoor, CUED) 2025-01-31 14:30: Numerical Investigation of Orientation Effects in Cross-grain Fracture of Wood (Dr Hao Yin, CUED) 2025-01-31 16:00: Cracking the capillary code: towards mesoscopic self-assembly and functional micromachines (Professor Nicolas Vandewalle, University of Liège) 2025-01-31 17:30: The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home (Maya Youssef) 2025-02-03 12:30: Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time ( Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) 2025-02-03 13:05: MathWorks: Embedded AI: Deploying deep learning models for industrial applications (Antoni Woss, Ruth Faherty and Iason Chaimalas) 2025-02-03 16:15: Principles of learning in distributed neural networks (Andrew Saxe, Gatsby Unit & Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL) 2025-02-03 18:00: To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals (Professor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy)) 2025-02-04 13:00: Text-and-audio methods (Cătălina Cangea, ex-Google DeepMind) 2025-02-04 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Efficient Sequential Experimentation: Bridging Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design" (Alberto Caron, The Alan Turing Institute) 2025-02-05 11:00: Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality (Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge) 2025-02-05 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 II (MR5 at the CMS) 2025-02-06 13:00: Have you heard... Outreach for Research Software Engineering (Peter Schmidt - Code for Thought) 2025-02-06 14:00: Drosophila in context: evolution, toxins, and behaviour (Dr Justin Crocker from EMBL Heidelberg ) 2025-02-06 14:00: Exploring SAS Viya and the Future of AI-Driven Innovation (Prathiba Krishna <Prathiba.Krishna@sas.com>) 2025-02-06 14:00: Feed-Forward Bullet-Time Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes from Monocular Videos (Hanxue Liang, University of Cambridge) 2025-02-06 14:00: Low-power embedded event-based vision processing for low-latency robotics (Jörg Conradt, KTH Stockholm, Sweden) 2025-02-06 15:00: Time-varying Signal Estimation Using Dynamic Topological Graphs (Prof. Ercan E Kuruoglu, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School) 2025-02-06 16:00: Behavioral machine learning (Dr. Keyon Vafa, Harvard Data Science Initiative) 2025-02-06 16:00: From Cell Migration to Macropinocytosis: How the Local Microenvironment Regulates Cell Behaviour (Jörg Renkawitz, LMU Munich) 2025-02-07 12:00: LLMs as supersloppers and other metaphors (Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge)) 2025-02-07 13:00: Warnings Unheeded: 25 Years of Planar Cell Polarity and Convergent Extension (John Wallingford - The University of Texas at Austin) 2025-02-07 14:00: Harnessing non-smooth dynamics for self-propelled gastrointestinal endoscopies with vibro-impact capsules (Prof. Yang Liu University of Exeter) 2025-02-07 16:00: Bubble dynamics in complex fluids (Professor Valeria Garbin, Delft University of Technology) 2025-02-07 17:30: Using Maths to Decode the Universe (Dr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford) 2025-02-10 12:00: The ATLAS Virtual Research Assistant (Heloise Stevance, University of Oxford) 2025-02-10 12:30: Distilling ML Models into Formulae for Ricci-Flat Metrics (Viktor Mirjanic, University of Cambridge) 2025-02-10 13:05: Riverlane: Building an error corrected quantum computer, and the computer science challenges that come up along the way (Kenton Barnes - Staff Quantum Engineer, Riverlane) 2025-02-10 16:30: ANNUAL LECTURE: Cell types as windows into brain function and treatment (Botond Roska, Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), Basel, Switzerland ) 2025-02-10 19:30: CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation (Professor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge) 2025-02-11 14:00: BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme" (Alice Corbella, University of Warwick) 2025-02-11 14:00: BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme" (Alice Corbella, University of Warwick) 2025-02-11 15:00: Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action (Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt) 2025-02-11 15:45: Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience (Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics) 2025-02-12 11:00: Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction (Mingtian Zhang, University College London) 2025-02-12 15:00: Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks. (Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral) 2025-02-13 13:00: Managing complexity of Weather and Climate Code with diversity of skills and workflows (Iva Kavcic - UK Met Office) 2025-02-13 14:00: Embryo-scale reverse genetics at single cell resolution reveals lineage-specific modules underlying cranial development (Professor Lauren Saunders from Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University ) 2025-02-13 14:00: Introduction to G-Research, ML engineers and Quant Research (Charles Martinez & Yousuf Mohamed-Ahmed /G-RESEARCH ) 2025-02-13 15:00: Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs (Prof. Anne Lauscher, Hamburg) 2025-02-13 16:00: Machine Learning is Linear Algebra (Andrew Gordon Wilson - New York University) 2025-02-14 12:00: Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training (Jeremy Bernstein (MIT)) 2025-02-14 14:00: Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Deformation and Fracture of Metallic Glasses. (Dr Wenqing Zhu, CUED ) 2025-02-14 14:30: Data-driven homogenisation of the mechanical response of solids (Dr Mirac Onur Bozkurt, CUED ) 2025-02-14 16:00: Synchronization in Navier-Stokes turbulence and its role in data-driven modeling (Professor Masanobu Inubushi, Tokyo University of Science) 2025-02-14 17:30: Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code? (Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge) 2025-02-17 13:05: Roku: Beyond Generative AI: Achieving Complete Control in Synthesising Testing Data with Unreal Engine (Zukang Liao, Software Engineer and former intern at Roku) 2025-02-17 16:15: Ancestral Sight (Riccardo Beltramo, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge ) 2025-02-17 18:00: Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice (Professor Stephen John) 2025-02-18 15:00: Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back (Youjing Yu; Tim Lin) 2025-02-19 11:00: Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design (Zixing Song) 2025-02-19 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III (MR5 at the CMS) 2025-02-20 11:00: What’s not an Autoregressive LLM? (Prof. Lingpeng Kong, HKU) 2025-02-20 14:00: The thresholds of an excitable system (Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge) 2025-02-20 17:00: From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning -- Why Machine Learning Cannot Reach the Rigour of Logical Reasoning? recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x38GySbuGJg (Tiansi Dong) 2025-02-21 11:00: Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP (Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg)) 2025-02-21 14:00: Conceiving, designing and testing giant ultralight coilable space structures (Prof. Sergio Pelligrino, California Institute of Technology) 2025-02-21 14:00: Post-doc talks (Post-doc talks, DAMTP) 2025-02-21 17:30: Eve's Byte of the Apple (Sandi Toksvig OBE) 2025-02-24 12:30: Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations (Mohammad Lotfollahi) 2025-02-24 17:30: Harnessing Large Language Models for Medical Data Processing: Structured Information Extraction, Disease Classification, and RAG Integration  (Cristian Cosentino (Università della Calabria)) 2025-02-24 18:00: Network modelling and Graph Neural Networks for emergency healthcare management (Annamaria Defilippo, PhD Student - Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro) 2025-02-24 18:45: Beyond Interpolation: Extrapolative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks (Niccolò Grillo) 2025-02-24 19:30: CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement (Dr. Cyrille Dunant, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2025-02-25 14:00: Can kernel machines be a viable alternative to deep neural networks? (Dr Parthe Pandit, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) 2025-02-26 11:00: Sampling with diffusion models (Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge)) 2025-02-26 17:30: Incorporating Flexibility in Antibody-Antigen Interaction Prediction (Sara Joubbi) 2025-02-27 13:00: The Rise of Self-Driving Labs: Automation of Scientific Workflows with Agentic Artificial Intelligence (Boris Bolliet - Cavendish Laboratory & Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge) 2025-02-27 14:00: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 1 (Thomas MEIER (LMU München)) 2025-02-27 14:00: Vision: A Symphony of Physics and Intelligence (Lu Fang, Tsinghua University) 2025-02-28 13:00: Human intestinal epithelial organoids – translational tools to investigate epigenetic regulation in health, development and disease (Matthias Zillbauer - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2025-02-28 14:00: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 2 (Thomas MEIER (LMU München)) 2025-02-28 14:00: 25 years with MathWorks and its customers (David Sampson, MathWorks) 2025-02-28 16:00: Fast flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction (Professor John Hinch, DAMTP) 2025-02-28 17:30: Wayfinding through the Human Genome (Dr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego) 2025-03-03 16:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University) 2025-03-03 16:15: Neural networks underlying episode generation for fertility control (Allan Herbison, Dept of PDN, University of Cambridge ) 2025-03-03 18:00: Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life (Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry) 2025-03-03 18:00: Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life (Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry) 2025-03-04 15:00: The Continual Learning (CL) Theory (Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita) 2025-03-05 11:00: Influence Functions (Adrian Goldwaser, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-05 16:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University) 2025-03-05 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV (MR5 at the CMS) 2025-03-06 11:00: Learning to Interact in Real-World Multiagent Systems (Markus Wulfmeier, DeepMind) 2025-03-06 11:00: 2025 Scott Lectures - Quantum science with atom-like systems in diamond (Professor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University) 2025-03-06 13:00: Governance and accountability in data-driven supply chains (Jennifer Cobbe - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-06 13:00: RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data (Urška Matjašec (University of Cambridge)) 2025-03-06 14:00: 21st century eugenics, scientific racism and the academic community: how science is manipulated to promote political ideology (Professor Rebecca Sear from Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University) 2025-03-06 14:00: Complexity of real and artificial networks (Dr. Gueorgui Mihaylov (Haleon.com)) 2025-03-06 14:00: Delivering Fusion Power: the challenges of control in a First of a Kind Power Plant (Adam Stephen (UKAEA), Kim Cave-Ayland (UKAEA), Morten Lennholm (UKIFS), Terry Thompson (UKIFS)) 2025-03-06 16:00: Grammar, reasoning, learning: Three short stories on comparative & rational analysis of language model capabilities (Dr. Andrew Lampinen (Deepmind)) 2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL) 2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL) 2025-03-06 16:00: “Self-protection of the early embryo: a dynamic perspective on phagocytosis in natural environments” (Dr Esteban Hoijman. Embryonic Cell Bioimaging lab, Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, IBMB-CSIC/IDIBELL) 2025-03-06 17:00: On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning (Alvaro Arroyo, University of Oxford) 2025-03-07 12:00: Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward (Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University)) 2025-03-07 13:00: Pushy guests: interrogating cell-fate specification in the early embryo through chimeras and computation (Stanley Strawbridge - Centre for Stem Cell Biology, The University of Sheffield) 2025-03-07 14:00: Lithography metal manufacturing: The next generation of precision 3D printing (Dr. Ruslan Melentiev (KAUST）) 2025-03-07 16:00: The mathematics and physics of wound healing (Professor Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol) 2025-03-07 17:30: Polari - a Very Queer Code (Professor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster) 2025-03-10 12:00: What Connects Us All? From Fibres to Graphs to Neurons (Akanksha Ahuja, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-10 13:05: MediaTek: Towards Efficient Prediction of Communication Channels Using AI (Sattar Vakili and Masoud Attarifar) 2025-03-10 16:15: Simple principles underlying complex neural responses (Máté Lengyel, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge ) 2025-03-10 19:30: CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing (Professor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-11 15:00: Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-03-12 11:00: ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-12 16:00: Natural Language meets Control Theory (Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University)) 2025-03-12 18:00: Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function (Professor Clare P. Grey) 2025-03-12 18:00: Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function (Professor Clare P. Grey) 2025-03-13 11:00: Discourse models with language models (Prof. Jessy Li) 2025-03-13 13:00: Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology (Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge)) 2025-03-13 13:00: Project management by and for RSEs (Sarah Jaffa - RSE, University of Manchester) 2025-03-13 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Edmund.George & Mei Lin Gan ) 2025-03-13 14:00: Biological design with machine learning and limited data. (Diego Oyarzun, University of Edinburgh) 2025-03-13 16:00: Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats (Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley) 2025-03-13 16:00: Neural Mechanisms of Natural Spatial Behaviors in Bats (Prof Michael Yartsev, University of California, Berkeley) 2025-03-14 12:00: Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape (Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña)) 2025-03-14 14:00: Physics-Enhanced Machine Learning for Monitoring & Twinning | An Exercise in Balance (Professor Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zürich) 2025-03-14 16:00: Turbulent zonal jets: self-organization and wave-mean flow interactions (Dr Daphné Lemasquerier, University of St Andrews) 2025-03-14 17:30: Decoding our Humanity (Professor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh) 2025-03-17 13:05: Helsing: Simulating a System of Systems (Matei David) 2025-03-17 16:15: How to overwrite an instinct: neural circuits for learning to suppress fear responses (Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London) 2025-03-17 17:00: From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1). (Tiansi Dong) 2025-03-17 17:00: Modelling microbiome-mediated epigenetic inheritance of disease risk (Bobby Ranjan) 2025-03-17 18:00: Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin? (Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED)) 2025-03-18 13:00: Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction (Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge)) 2025-03-18 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning" (Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute) 2025-03-18 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning" (Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute) 2025-03-19 11:00: An Introduction to In-Context Learning (Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-19 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V (MR5 at the CMS) 2025-03-20 13:00: From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges (Professor Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford ) 2025-03-20 14:00: New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning (Prof. Paul Liang (MIT)) 2025-03-20 14:00: Stochastic Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization (Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, IIT Hyderabad) 2025-03-20 16:00: Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces (Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France) 2025-03-20 16:00: Deciphering EMT morphogenetic forces (Dr. Magali Suzanne. The Centre de Biologie Intégrative, Toulouse, France) 2025-03-21 13:00: The epigenetic control of variable expressivity (Anne Ferguson-Smith - Department of Genetics) 2025-03-21 14:00: Participation of Energy Storage in Electricity Markets: Strategic Withholding Behaviors and Equilibrium (Bolun Xu, Columbia University) 2025-03-21 16:00: Nonmonotonic flow curves and shear banding in granular flows (Dr Christopher Ness, University of Edinburgh) 2025-03-21 17:00: Surgical data using LLMs (Hugo Georgenthum) 2025-03-24 12:00: What Connects Us All? From Fibres to Graphs to Neurons (Akanksha Ahuja, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-24 12:30: A Multi-Agent System for Mathematical Discovery (Daattavya Aggarwal, Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge) 2025-03-25 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A Nonparanormal Approach to Marginal Inference" (Susanne Dandl, University of Zurich) 2025-03-25 17:00: From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1) (Tiansi Dong) 2025-03-26 11:00: Learning to See the World in 3D (Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge)) 2025-03-27 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - March 2025 (Dr Michail Mamalakis and Joshua Rothwell) 2025-03-28 09:00: The Unknown Maxwell (The Cambridge Philosophical Society) 2025-03-28 15:30: Mitigating the Risks of Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems (Aleksey Charapko, University of New Hampshire) 2025-03-31 12:30: Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research (Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine) 2025-03-31 17:00: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2) recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCHg-DAnEs (Tiansi Dong) 2025-04-02 11:00: Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications (Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge) 2025-04-04 15:00: Shape-shifting Elephants: Multi-modal Transport for Integrated Research Infrastructure (Nik Sultana, Illinois Institute of Technology) 2025-04-13 17:00: blabla (Cassidy) 2025-04-15 15:00: In-Context Learning (Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar) 2025-04-22 11:00: Robust nonnegative matrix factorization with the beta-divergence and applications in imaging (Cédric Févotte, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)) 2025-04-22 11:00: Robust nonnegative matrix factorization with the beta-divergence and applications in imaging (Cédric Févotte, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)) 2025-04-23 17:00: bla bla (Zeno) 2025-04-25 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - April 2025 (Daniel Kreuter and Dr Ander Biguri) 2025-04-25 13:00: Echoes of the Embryo: A stem cell model of human gastrulation and post-gastrulation lineage emergence (Jitesh Neupane) 2025-04-26 17:00: bla bla (Tiansi Dong) 2025-04-26 17:00: bla bla (Tiansi Dong) 2025-04-28 12:30: QBS (Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg) 2025-04-28 12:30: Building a Virtual Brain: Digital Twin for Precision Glioma Surgery (Queenie Wong, Department of Clinical Neuroscience ) 2025-04-28 19:30: Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa (Dr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute) 2025-04-29 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Common atoms mixture models in some biostatistical inference problems" (Prof Peter Mueller, University of Texas) 2025-04-29 15:15: BSU Seminar: "Investigating complex dependence structures using Bayesian mixture modelling" (Dr Michail Papathomas, University of St Andrews) 2025-04-29 17:00: Sphere Embedding: The Atom for Explainable and Reliable AI and Machine Reasoning (Part 1). recorded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfrnwqpKRE (Tiansi Dong) 2025-04-30 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 I (MR5 at the CMS) 2025-05-01 14:00: Some topics at the intersection of control, dynamics, and learning. (Eduardo Sontag, Northeastern University) 2025-05-01 15:00: The Case for Decentralized Scheduling in Modern Datacenters (Smita Vijayakumar, Systems Research Group, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory) 2025-05-01 16:00: Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory (Tim Austin (Warwick)) 2025-05-02 10:30: Biologically Inspired Soft Robotics (Michael T. Tolley UC San Diego) 2025-05-02 12:00: Asymmetry in Supposedly Equivalent Facts: Pre-training Bias in Large Language Models (Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge)) 2025-05-02 13:00: Coordination of Protrusions in Migrating Immune Cells (Michael Sixt) 2025-05-02 16:00: Instabilities in viscoelastic fluids: a long story (Prof Helen Wilson, University College London) 2025-05-06 15:00: The successor representation, its neural substrate, and behavioural consequences. (Puria Radmard; Daniel Kornai) 2025-05-08 14:00: Krasovskii Passivity Based Approaches to Control Design of Power Systems (Yu Kawano, Hiroshima University) 2025-05-08 15:00: Causal Representation Learning (Prof. Ali Tajer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ​) 2025-05-08 15:00: Human-Centered AI: Addressing the Ecological Fallacy in LLMs (Prof, H Andrew Schwartz (State University of New York at Stony Brook)) 2025-05-08 16:00: Potassium channel activators - a possible anti-seizure treatment. (Prof Frederik Elinder - Linköping University, Sweden) 2025-05-09 12:00: Research Progress in Mechanistic Interpretability (Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind)) 2025-05-09 14:00: A variational structure underpinning higher-order homogenization ( Manon Thbaut, Ecole Polytechnique ) 2025-05-09 16:00: Metastability Properties of the Earth's Climate: a Multiscale Viewpoint (Prof Valerio Lucarini, University of Leicester) 2025-05-12 16:15: Normalisation, adaptation, and the balance of excitation and inhibition (Yashar Ahmadian, Dept of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-12 17:00: Superposition in GNNs (Lukas Pertl) 2025-05-12 17:00: Exploring the interplay between Ricci Flow, the Fisher Information Matrix and Gradient Descent in Neural Networks (Physics) 2025-05-12 19:30: Bioelectronic Medicine (Professor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University) 2025-05-13 13:00: Explainable AI in Neuroscience: From Interpretability to Biomarker Discovery (Mike Mamalakis (University of Cambridge)) 2025-05-13 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A Regression Tree Approach to Missing Data" (Professor Wei-Yin Loh, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 2025-05-13 14:00: Quantifying individuality in neural circuit representations (Alex Williams (NYU)) 2025-05-13 16:00: Sheaf-Based Diffusion for Multimodal Graph Learning (Mar Gonzàlez i Català (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)) 2025-05-14 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 II (MR5 at the CMS) 2025-05-15 13:00: A Modular OCR Solution for Logographic Scripts: From Labeling to Recognition and User Interface Design (Peichao Qin - Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) 2025-05-15 14:00: Instrumentation and Iteration in Massively Online Live Service Gaming (Mark Kerr, Jagex) 2025-05-15 16:00: Balanced and Efficient tokenization across languages (Prof. Hila Gonen (University of Biritish Columbia)) 2025-05-15 16:00: From nuclear swelling to chemoattractant production during tissue damage (Dr Balázs Enyedi - Semmelweis University, Budapest) 2025-05-16 12:00: Measuring Political Bias in Large Language Models (Paul Röttger (Bocconi University)) 2025-05-16 13:00: Motility and matrix remodelling coupling drive early avian morphogenesis (Lakshmi Balasubramaniam) 2025-05-16 14:00: Biocomputation with Motile Agents in Networks (Professor Dan V Nicolau, McGill University) 2025-05-16 14:00: Connectome-based Echo State Networks (James McAllister (Ulster)) 2025-05-16 16:00: Can AI weather and climate emulators predict out-of-distribution gray swan extreme events? (Prof Pedram Hassanzedeh, University of Chicago) 2025-05-19 12:00: On Activation and Normalization Layers in Graph Neural Networks (Moshe Eliasof, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-19 12:30: Quantitative Biology Seminar (David Savage, UC Berkeley) 2025-05-20 14:00: BSU Seminar: "AI for the Human Cell Atlas" (Professor Sarah Teichmann, FMedSci FRS, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute & Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-20 17:00: Deep Learning Approaches for Label-Free Tumour Image Segmentation Spectroscopy in Cancer Diagnosis (Thomas Hartigan) 2025-05-21 11:00: Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models (Miri Zilka, Neel Alex, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-21 14:00: Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part I) (Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh) 2025-05-21 15:00: A Mixture-based framework for guiding Diffusion models (Alain Oliviero-Durmus - Ecole Polytechnique) 2025-05-22 11:00: AI Interacting with People (through Language) (Prof Hal Daume III (University of Maryland)) 2025-05-22 13:00: Fortitude: A Modern Fortran Linter (Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill, University of York Plasma) 2025-05-22 14:00: Classical and Quantum Density Functional Theory for Materials Science (Angus Lockhart <angus@secqai.com>) 2025-05-22 14:00: Engineering Genetic Controllers to Accelerate Adaptation and Attenuate Cellular Noise (Maurice Filo, ETH Zurich) 2025-05-22 16:00: It is not all in your genes - epigenetic regulation of human lung repair (Dr Renata Jurkowska, Cardiff University) 2025-05-23 12:00: Robust Alignment of Large Language Models (Dr. Sangwoong Yoon (UCL)) 2025-05-23 12:00: What If We Succeed? (Stuart Russell Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley) 2025-05-23 13:00: Decoding the Notch Signal (Sarah Bray) 2025-05-23 14:00: Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part II) (Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh) 2025-05-23 15:00: AI Meets Economics: The Case of Auction-Assisted AI Systems in Cloud-Edge Continuum (Prof. Lei Jiao) 2025-05-23 16:00: From Wall-Climbing Active Colloids to self-assembly of Magnetotactic Bacteria (Prof Cottin-Bizonne, Université Lyon) 2025-05-26 14:00: Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part III) (Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh) 2025-05-27 11:00: Dendrites, Synaptic Plasticity and Hippocampal Place Fields​ (Carl Ashworth; Saeyeon Kwon) 2025-05-27 13:00: Computer Vision: Between Forensics and Biomedical Imaging (Giovanna Maria Dimitri, University of Siena (Italy)) 2025-05-28 11:00: Conditional Expectation and Machine Learning (Eugene Wong(UC Berkeley and Clare Hall, Cambridge)) 2025-05-28 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - May 2025 (Dr Timothy Rittman, Senior Clinical Research Associate, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-28 14:00: Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part IV) (Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh) 2025-05-28 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-05-29 14:00: On Interacting and Writing with LLMs (Dr. Philippe Laban (Microsoft Research)) 2025-05-29 14:00: Understanding the drivers of antimicrobial resistance evolution (Claudia Igler, University of Manchester) 2025-05-29 14:00: Streaming of rendered content with adaptive frame rate and resolution (Yaru Liu, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-29 14:00: Perceptual quality metric and loss function for 3D and temporal consistency (Fei Yin, University of Cambridge) 2025-05-30 12:00: Unveiling the Secret Sauce: A Causal Look at Data Memorisation and Tokenisation in Language Models (Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge)) 2025-05-30 14:00: PhD Students' talks (Speakers listed in abstract in due course) 2025-05-30 14:00: Diophantine Geometry and the Theory of Computation (Part V) (Prof Minhyong Kim, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh) 2025-06-03 11:00: Discovering reward-guided learning strategies from large-scale datasets (Kimberly Stachenfeld (DeepMind, Columbia)) 2025-06-05 13:00: Symbolic Regression for Model Discovery in Python and Julia (Miles Cranmer - DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2025-06-05 17:00: Interactive and Grounded Learning (Prof. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu (University of California, San Diego)) 2025-06-06 14:00: Mechanobiology-Inspired Antithrombotic Strategies and Point-of-Care Microtechnologies (Professor Arnold Lining Ju, University of Sydney) 2025-06-06 15:00: When is Multilinguality a Curse? Language Modeling for 350 Languages (Catherine Arnett and Tyler Chang (EleutherAI and UC San Diego)) 2025-06-06 16:00: Numerical simulations of multiphase flows with various complexities (Prof Omar Matar, Imperial College London) 2025-06-10 11:00: Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making (Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin) 2025-06-10 11:00: Context, Computation, and Continuity: Neural Mechanisms of Memory and Decision-Making (Máté Lengyel; Guillaume Hennequin) 2025-06-10 14:00: Latent Concepts in Large Language Models (Prof. Pradeep Ravikumar, Carnegie Mellon University) 2025-06-11 11:00: Vision-language models (VLMs) (Varun Jain (University of Cambridge)) 2025-06-11 11:00: Vision-language models (VLMs) (Varun Jain (University of Cambridge)) 2025-06-11 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-06-12 11:00: Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning (Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London)) 2025-06-12 11:00: Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning (Yingzhen Li (Imperial College London)) 2025-06-12 14:00: Model Interpretability: from Illusions to Opportunities (Dr. Asma Ghandeharioun (Google DeepMind)) 2025-06-12 14:00: Probabilistically Robust Decision Making for Uncertain Dynamical Systems (Venkatraman Renganathan, Cranfield University) 2025-06-13 12:00: MultiBLiMP: A Multilingual Benchmark of Linguistic Minimal Pairs (Jaap Jumelet (University of Groningen)) 2025-06-13 14:00: Progress in Additively Manufactured Gradient Materials: Predicting, Making, and Qualifying (Dr Peter C. Collins, Iowa State University) 2025-06-13 16:00: Thermal vortex rings: the vortex dynamics (Dr Jun-Ichi Yano, University of Reading) 2025-06-16 12:30: Quantitative Biology Seminar (Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health) 2025-06-16 19:30: An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence (Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2025-06-17 11:00: Multitasking and compositionality in brain and in neural networks (Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge) 2025-06-17 13:00: Feedback Forensics: A Toolkit to Measure AI Personality (Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge)) 2025-06-18 11:00: The structure of curvature in neural networks (Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research UK)) 2025-06-19 14:00: Value Reasoning and Test-Time Verification for Trustworthy LLMs (Prof. Lu Wang (University of Michigan)) 2025-06-19 14:00: Structure, Kinetics, and the Identification of Integrated Control in Neuronal Excitability (Shimon Marom, Technion) 2025-06-20 12:00: LLMs, Implicit Bayesian inference and compositional Generalization (Szilvia Ujvary (University of Cambridge)) 2025-06-20 13:00: Chromatin remodelling and cell fate plasticity during neuronal maturation (Tony Southall) 2025-06-24 13:00: Success, sensitivity and unbelievable quality of LLM code generation (Andrei Paleyes (University of Cambridge)) 2025-06-24 14:00: Colored Jones polynomials and the volume conjecture (Prof Vishnu Jejjala, School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand) 2025-06-25 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - June 2025 (Pascal Wodtke and Alexander Nicholas Shepherd) 2025-06-25 16:30: Statistics Clinic Easter 2025 V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-04 15:50: Title to be confirmed (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-07 15:50: Performance evaluation for learning systems (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-07 15:50: title (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-07 15:50: title (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-07 15:50: title (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-07 15:50: title (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-08 14:00: From Pixels to 3D Motion: Modelling the Physical Natural World from Images (Elliott (Shangzhe) Wu) 2025-07-08 15:50: Artificial Intelligence in Agrifood and Environment (Prof. Antonino Staiano) 2025-07-08 17:00: title (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-09 09:00: AI Governance and Regulation: Comparing EU, US, and China’s Models and global initiatives (Dr. Nicola Palladino, University of Salerno) 2025-07-10 10:50: From Score to Sound: Music Generation in the AI Era (Francesco Bardozzo (University of Salerno)) 2025-07-10 14:00: Encoding Angular Information into Computational Imaging (Simeng Qiu, Swansea University) 2025-07-11 14:00: Emerging perceptual properties in foundation models: a vision science perspective (Alexandra Gomez-Villa) 2025-07-11 14:30: The Valencia-Bristol low-level vision MindSet (Jesús Malo) 2025-07-16 15:50: Title to be confirmed (qrzhang@hku.hk) 2025-07-16 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-07-23 15:00: Google DeepMind’s Gemini models and the Rise of Long-Context LLMs (Dr Nikolay Savinov (Google DeepMind)) 2025-07-24 14:00: From Pixels to Curves: Deep Learning–Based Techniques for Vector Graphic Creation (Ronghuan Wu, City University of Hong Kong) 2025-07-28 17:00: AI-Powered Graph Representation Learning for Robust and Efficient Urban and Social Science (Qianru Zhang) 2025-07-29 14:00: Deep High Dynamic Range Imaging: Reconstruction, Generation and Display (Dr. Chao Wang, Max Planck Institute for Informatics) 2025-07-29 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Kaiwen Zuo) 2025-07-29 17:15: Hierarchical Protein Structure Representation Learning via Topological Deep Learning (Zhiyu Wang) 2025-07-31 14:00: Perceptually-Inspired Algorithms for Power Optimization in XR Displays (Kenny Chen, New York University) 2025-08-05 12:00: Towards Physical AI: Time-Series Prediction for Intent-Aware Robot Learning (Mukund Mitra, Indian Institute of Science) 2025-08-06 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-08-21 12:45: GNN-ACLP: Graph Neural Networks Based Analog Circuit Link Prediction (Guanyuan Peter Pan) 2025-08-27 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-09-01 14:00: Adaptive Resource Allocation for Low-Latency LLM Serving in Dynamic Environments ( Masayuki Usui and Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki (University of Tokyo)) 2025-09-11 13:00: BSU Seminar: "Predictive Polygenic Scores: Considerations and an Example" (Allison Meisner, Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center) 2025-09-11 14:00: Color Appearance and Scission in Transparent Augmented Reality (Michael J. Murdoch Associate Professor and Director of the Munsell Color Science Laboratory at the Rochester Institute of Technology) 2025-09-15 13:00: Multi-modal modeling in precision medicine: from data imputation to synthetic data​ (Dr. Olivier Gevaert​ -​ Associate Professor, Depts of Medicine & Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University​ ​) 2025-09-16 13:15: The Fruit Fly Connectome and Beyond (Yijie Yin; Saeyeon Kwon) 2025-09-17 16:30: Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-09-19 14:00: Inequalities Revisited (Prof. Raymond W. Yeung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) 2025-09-23 13:15: Cerebellum Computation (Carl Ashworth; Youjing Yu) 2025-09-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE" (William Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-09-23 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Upgrading survival models with CARE" (William Underwood, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge) 2025-09-24 13:00: Large Language Models and Graph Neural Networks for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (Fan Mo, University of Cambridge) 2025-09-29 12:30: Cells, Tissues & Organs: assembling the Human Cell Atlas (Professor Sarah Teichmann - Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2025-09-30 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - September 2025 (Dr Tammar Truzman and Mr Artsiom Hramyka) 2025-09-30 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Effective Health Technologies Faster? Value-Based, Response Adaptive Learning in Clinical Trials" (Professor Stephen Chick, INSEAD) 2025-10-03 14:00: Intelligent Sensing and Energy Devices for Pervasive and Sustainable Healthcare (Dr Changsheng Wu, National University of Singapore) 2025-10-06 10:00: Quantum Interactive Oracle Proofs (Baocheng Sun Weizman Institute) 2025-10-08 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-10-09 13:00: Chunked file formats for massive imaging datasets (David Stansby - Engineering, University College London) 2025-10-09 13:00: Protocols over Implementations (Dominik Moritz (Professor at CMU HCII and Researcher at Apple)) 2025-10-09 16:00: Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Professor Mark Isalan (Professor Mark Isalan, Professor of Engineering Biology, Imperial College London) 2025-10-10 11:00: Explanations as a Catalyst: Leveraging Large Language Models to Embrace Human Label Variation (Beiduo Chen) 2025-10-10 12:00: NLIP 2025 Social: Meet New PhD Students (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-10-10 14:00: Material Discovery via Machine Learning and Research Lab Automation (Professor Yang Hao, Queen Mary University of London) 2025-10-10 16:00: Application of Open Quantum System Concepts to Internal Wave / Planetary Wave Coupling and consequences for Earth System Behaviour (Kurt Polzin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) 2025-10-13 13:05: Perplexity AI: Under the Hood of LLM Inference (Nandor Licker) 2025-10-13 16:15: Plasticity of the Parental Brain (Jonny Kohl, The Francis Crick Institute London) 2025-10-13 18:00: Our Chiral Universe (Professor David Tong) 2025-10-15 15:00: A central limit theorem for partitions involving generalised divisor function (Madhuparna Das, Dept of Mathematics, University of Exeter) 2025-10-16 13:00: SerialKVM - the cheapest Software KVM (Samantha Finnigan - Senior RSE, Durham University Advanced Research Computing) 2025-10-16 14:00: TBC (Dr Boris Bolliet) 2025-10-16 14:00: Data as models? A closer look at data-driven control systems (Roy Smith, ETH Zurich) 2025-10-16 16:00: Implicit Chain-of-Thought: Internalizing Reasoning in Language Models (Yuntian Deng (University of Waterloo)) 2025-10-17 12:00: Making and breaking tokenizers (Sander Land (Writer) ) 2025-10-17 16:00: Some open problems in solid-Earth dynamics associated with the fluid outer core and oceans (David Al-Attar, DES, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-20 12:30: Zero-shot design of drug-binding proteins using neural networks (Nicholas Polizzi) 2025-10-20 13:05: Bloomberg: Observability in Action: Designing Effective Dashboards (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-10-20 16:15: Visual cortex gamma reflects stimulus experience and stimulus reward value (Pascal Fries, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany) 2025-10-20 19:30: Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy (Professor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology) 2025-10-21 13:00: AIReg-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models That Assess AI Regulation Compliance (William Marino (University of Cambridge)) 2025-10-21 13:15: Thalamocortical Interactions for Flexible Cognition (Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai) 2025-10-22 11:00: An Introduction to Stochastic Interpolants (Professor Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato and Fran Castro) 2025-10-22 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-10-23 13:00: Building Reproducible Machine Learning Pipelines for inference of Galaxy Properties at Scale (Gurjeet Jagwani - IoA, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-23 14:00: TBC (Max Rogers/ Entrepreneurs First) 2025-10-23 14:00: Concept-based Interpretable Models for Affective Computing Applications (Xinyu Li, University of Glasgow.) 2025-10-23 15:00: Reading Between the Lines: Using Language Models to Amplify Human Data in Robot Learning (MIT) (Andreea Bobu (MIT)) 2025-10-23 16:00: Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr José Davila Velderrain (Dr José Davila Velderrain, Research Group Leader, Human Technopole, Italy) 2025-10-24 12:00: Evaluation with LLMs - Theoretical and Practical insights (Eyal Kolman (Microsoft)) 2025-10-24 13:00: Regeneration at your fingertips (Mekayla Storer (University of Cambridge)) 2025-10-24 14:00: Integrating thermodynamic and kinetic simulations within a CALPHAD framework for alloy design (Dr Yanheng Xie, CUED) 2025-10-24 14:30: Metallic Lattice Metamaterials: Extreme Manufacturing and Multifunctional Applications (Dr Liqiang Wang, CUED) 2025-10-24 16:00: Boundary layers in high-Rayleigh-number turbulent convection (Jörg Schumacher, Technische Universität Ilmenau) 2025-10-27 12:00: From Code to the Lab: Applying Transfer Learning to Discover New Antibacterials (Sergio Bacallado de Lara, Department of Pure Maths and Mathematical Statistics) 2025-10-27 12:30: The Denario Project: Multi-Agent Systems for Autonomous Scientific Discovery (Boris Bolliet, Department of Physics) 2025-10-27 13:00: TBC (Dr Chi Wang) 2025-10-27 13:05: GSA Capital: Technology at GSA (Junhui Yang) 2025-10-27 16:15: Conscious visual perception, perceptual organization and how to restore it in blindness (Pieter Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 2025-10-27 18:00: Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies (Professor Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health) 2025-10-28 11:00: Emergence of Linear Representations in LMs (NYU) (Dr. Shauli Ravfogel (NYU)) 2025-10-28 13:00: Is it even possible to defend AI agents against attacks in practice? (Ilia Shumailov (AI Sequrity Company, Ex DeepMind, Ex Cambridge)) 2025-10-29 11:00: Diffusion Language Models (Julianna Piskorz (University of Cambridge)) 2025-10-29 16:00: From Data to Models to Understanding: Evaluating Neural Latents and Finding Decision Boundaries in Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) (Kabir Dabholkar, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) 2025-10-30 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - October 2025 (Dr Shangqi Gao and Dr Shuncong Wang) 2025-10-30 13:00: Portable AI software with PyTorch and Lightning (Karl Harrison - Dawn/RCS, University of Cambridge) 2025-10-30 14:00: TBC (Dr Stephen-John Sammut) 2025-10-31 13:00: A novel RASopathy caused by hyperactive Wnt signalling (Dr. Ian Mcgough, Babraham Institute) 2025-10-31 14:00: Programmable multifunctional materials and structures: Design, realization, and validation (Prof Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2025-10-31 16:00: Mesoscale swimming – dynamics and crowds of living critters (Matilda Backholm, Aalto University) 2025-11-03 13:05: Jane Street: How to monitor systems that trade billions of dollars a day (Pedro, Jane Street Software Engineer) 2025-11-03 15:00: Fast and Accurate Flow Mining in High-Speed Networks with Sketches (Weihe Li, University of Edinburgh) 2025-11-03 19:30: Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science (Professor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum) 2025-11-04 10:00: BSU Seminar: "Predictive resampling for scalable Bayes" (Edwin Fong, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong) 2025-11-05 11:00: A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML (Szilvia Ujvary, Arik Reuter, Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge)) 2025-11-05 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-11-06 13:00: Communities, capabilities, and collaboration: How the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) supports digital research in the Arts and Humanities (Oscar Seip - SSI and University of Manchester) 2025-11-06 13:00: Variational Inference for Lévy Process-Driven SDEs via Neural Tilting (Dr Yaman Kindap, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-06 14:00: Molecular bases of Shigella virulence and host immune response (Professor Benoit Marteyn from Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC), University of Strasbourg) 2025-11-06 14:00: Specializing Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Database Systems (Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania)) 2025-11-06 14:00: TBC (Featurespace) 2025-11-06 16:00: Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Helen Ray-Jones (Dr Helen Ray-Jones, ) 2025-11-07 13:00: Uncovering how the genome directs development (Julie Ahringer) 2025-11-07 14:00: Active solids: percolation and pattern formation (Professor Anton Souslov, Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-07 16:00: Particle-driven flows in planetary interiors (Quentin Kriaa, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-10 13:05: Goldman Sachs: Beyond the Curriculum: Building Enterprise Grade Software (Hoshil Sejpal, Technology Fellow, Goldman Sachs) 2025-11-10 14:00: Statistical Investigations into the Unseen: Missing Mass for Markov Samples and Natural Distribution Estimation (Prof. Andrew Thangaraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras) 2025-11-10 18:00: Putting the “S” into mechanics (Professor Keith Seffen. Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2025-11-11 13:15: Neural basis of decision making (Guillaume Hennequin ( University of Cambridge); Robert Crossen) 2025-11-11 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Robust and conjugate Gaussian processes" (François-Xavier Briol, University College London) 2025-11-11 14:00: To Intrinsic Dimension and Beyond: Efficient Sampling in Diffusion Models (Dr. Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Statistics and Data Science Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania) 2025-11-11 15:00: Two talk double feature: NetFridgeS and The Small World Web of AI (Zhukun Wang (University of Oxford) / Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford)) 2025-11-11 15:00: Two talk double feature: NetFridgeS and The Small World Web of AI (Zhukun Wang (University of Oxford) / Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford)) 2025-11-12 15:00: Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline (Prof. Sarah Wiegreffe (University of Maryland)) 2025-11-13 13:00: CSD3: An Introduction to Data Centre Operations at Cambridge (Astrid Scott-Bennett - RCS, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-13 14:00: Retrieving and Sampling Diverse Outputs (Prof. Eunsol Choi (NYU)) 2025-11-13 14:00: TBC (Dr Matt Kenzie) 2025-11-14 12:00: Extrapolating model performance across training horizons (Kris Cao (Cohere)) 2025-11-14 13:00: Nonsense Mediated Decay in Early Embryonic Development (Claire Senner, Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research) 2025-11-14 14:00: Liquid Crystalline Elastomers for Reversible Actuation and Energy Dissipation (Professor Mohand Saed, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University) 2025-11-14 16:00: Dynamical systems approaches to climate response and climate tipping (Anna von der Heydt, Utrecht University) 2025-11-14 16:00: Morphing materials: from brains to robots (Professor John Biggins, Cambridge University Engineering Department) 2025-11-17 13:05: Gearset: A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer at Gearset (Joe Lawry Short) 2025-11-17 19:30: CSAR Lecture: Biopharmaceutical Development - The Journey from Molecule to Medicine (Professor Nicholas Darton, Associate Director of Biopharmaceutical Development at AstraZeneca, Honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham) 2025-11-18 13:15: Lazy-rich learning (Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge) 2025-11-18 13:15: Lazy-rich learning (Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge) 2025-11-18 15:00: Introducing BoltzGen: Toward Universal Binder Design (Hannes Stärk, PhD student at MIT) 2025-11-19 11:00: Neural Operators for Scientific Simulation (Luca Ghafourpour (University of Cambridge)) 2025-11-19 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-11-20 13:00: Automatic differentiation - an RSE's eye view (Matt Graham - ARC, UCL) 2025-11-20 14:00: Small RNAs in Epigenetic Inheritance: a lesson from worms (Dr Germano Cecere from Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, Institut Pasteur, Paris) 2025-11-20 14:00: Just asking questions (MIT) (Jacob Andreas (MIT)) 2025-11-20 14:00: Learning shallow neural networks in high dimensions: SGD dynamics and scaling laws (Denny Wu, Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science, New York University and the Flatiron Institute.) 2025-11-20 15:00: TBC (Dr David "Davidad" Dalrymple) 2025-11-21 11:00: Model Merging — A Tale of Two Settings (Donato Crisostomi) 2025-11-21 12:00: With great power... My journey in Responsible AI (Christos Christodoulopoulos) 2025-11-21 14:00: Bond-Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials: Strength, Reconfigurability, and Connectivity (Dr Zhiqiang Meng, CUED) 2025-11-21 14:30: Grain Boundary Plasticity in FCC Metals and Nanotwinned Alloys (Dr Ruoqi Dang, CUED) 2025-11-21 16:00: Tactile-Embodied Soft Robots: Enabling Perception and Intelligent Physical Interaction in Compliant Systems ( Professor Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London) 2025-11-21 16:00: Using substrate kinematics to control the flow of thin liquid films (Mathieu Sellier, University of Canterbury, New Zealand) 2025-11-24 12:00: Using machine learning approaches to automate the diagnosis of small intestinal biopsies (Professor Elizabeth Soilleux, MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCPath, PGDipMedEd, SFHEA Professor of Diagnostics and Biomarkers/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology, University of Cambridge) 2025-11-24 12:30: Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling (Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School ) 2025-11-24 12:30: Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling (Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School ) 2025-11-24 12:30: Machine learning models guide viral discovery in museum bat collections (Maya M. Juman, Department of Veterinary Medicine) 2025-11-24 13:05: Anima Health: Landing a role building the future: being a top 1% hireability candidate (Souradip Mookerjee) 2025-11-24 14:00: Perceiving Through Contact: Designing Dexterous Robots with Touch and Vision (Dr. Shan Luo, King's College London ) 2025-11-24 16:15: Brainstem peptides: for better for worse, in sickness and in health (Simon Luckman, University of Manchester) 2025-11-24 17:05: Contexts and Confounders in Clinical Practice, in Wearables, and as a path to novel drug discovery - CCAIM Seminar Series (Prof Stephen H Friend) 2025-11-24 18:00: A Lot of Hot Air: volcanic degassing and its impact on our environment (Professor Marie Edmonds FRS. Department of Earth Sciences) 2025-11-25 13:00: VIKING: Deep variational inference with stochastic projections (Samuel Fadel (Technical University of Denmark)) 2025-11-26 11:00: Variational Inference: An Algorithm-Centric Perspective (Kyurae Kim (University of Pennsylvania)) 2025-11-26 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - November 2025 (Rui Li and Rehan Zuberi) 2025-11-27 13:00: Lost software, Polar Research Ships, Antarctica, and Doom: Rescuing 30+ years of raw scientific vessel underway data (Claudette Lopez - British Antarctic Survey) 2025-11-27 14:00: TBC (Dr Ander Biguri & Dr Josh Kaggie) 2025-11-27 14:00: Control and Adaptation Under Latent Risk and Nonstationary Interactions (Yorie Nakahira, Carnegie Mellon University) 2025-11-27 16:00: Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities (Prof. Peter West (University of British Columbia)) 2025-11-27 16:00: Engineered biomaterials for regeneration and mechanobiology  (Professor Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, University of Glasgow) 2025-11-28 12:00: A computational model of language production (Yuan Gao (University of Cambridge)) 2025-11-28 13:00: Heads or tails? Decoding the regulatory logic of body plan patterning (Vicki Metzis, Imperial College London) 2025-11-28 14:00: Mechanics and data science to model aneurysms (Professor Jose Merodio, Polytechnic University of Madrid) 2025-11-28 16:00: On bounds of conformation tensor space in planar flows of the Oldroyd B model (Robert Poole, University of Liverpool) 2025-12-01 13:05: DOJO: Dojo's Transition from Digital to AI Native (Rob Howes and Alex Price ) 2025-12-01 16:15: Seeing in three dimensions: how the visual cortex uses motion to parse 3D scenes (Petr Znamenskiy, The Francis Crick Institute London) 2025-12-01 19:30: From Planets to Exoplanets: the search for life, with the James Webb Telescope and others (Dr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge) 2025-12-02 13:15: Tiny & Gigantic Neural Networks (Puria Radmard; Nicolas Anguita) 2025-12-02 15:30: Reframing Robots for Care: Bringing Awareness of Informal Care to AI-driven Solutions (Laetitia Tanqueray, Lund University, Sweden) 2025-12-02 16:00: Hard numbers—physicochemical models of a mitotic signalling organelle​ (Kevin A. Janes, Ph.D.​ Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia​) 2025-12-03 16:30: Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2025-12-04 13:00: From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Understanding GPU Performance with NVIDIA Profiling and Debugging Tools (Mozhgan Kabiri chimeh - NVIDIA Developer Relations Manager (UK&I)) 2025-12-04 14:00: Why don't models generalize? (Prof. Yonatan Bisk (CMU)) 2025-12-05 13:00: Modelling self-organisation: Beyond Turing (Jeremy Green) 2025-12-05 15:00: Building and Understanding Human-scale Language Models (Aaron Mueller (Boston University)) 2025-12-05 16:00: Applied mathematics in a changing world (David Abrahams, DAMTP, University of Cambridge) 2025-12-08 15:30: Expanding the kinome​ (Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D.​ - UT Southwestern Medical Center​) 2025-12-10 15:00: [SIGGRAPH Asia 2025] Supra-threshold Contrast Perception in Augmented Reality (Dongyeon) (Dongyeon Kim, University of Cambridge) 2025-12-10 15:30: [SIGGRAPH Asia 2025] CameraVDP: Perceptual Display Assessment with Uncertainty Estimation via Camera and Visual Difference Prediction (Yancheng) (Yancheng Cai (University of Cambridge)) 2025-12-11 14:00: Evaluating and Improving Rendered Visual Experiences (Pontus Ebelin) 2025-12-12 14:30: How does gradient descent work? (Jeremy Cohen (Flatiron)) 2025-12-15 12:00: Lessons from integrating Geospatial Foundation Models into environmental journalism methodologies (Anne Alexander, Cambridge Digital Humanities) 2025-12-15 12:30: Machine Learning for Toxicity Prediction Using Chemical Structures: Pillars for Success in the Real World (Srijit Seal) 2025-12-15 18:30: A fishy study: from ecology to cognition to brains (Adrian Christmas lecture) (Redouan Bshary, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) 2026-01-13 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Graphical models for missing data not at random: identification, inference, and imputation" (Ilya Shpitser, Johns Hopkins School University ) 2026-01-21 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 I (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-01-22 14:00: How personalised is your immune system? (Professor Aleksandra Walczak from Laboratoire de physique, l’École Normale Supérieure, Paris) 2026-01-22 14:30: Frugal computation (Xaq Pitkow (CMU)) 2026-01-22 16:00: Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Jonathan Frazer (Jonathan Frazer, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain) 2026-01-23 11:00: Cultural Biases in LLMs: From Behavioural analysis to Internal Representations (Siddhesh Pawar (University of Copenhagen)) 2026-01-23 16:00: Sea ice motion on extreme scales: from a floe to the continuum (Srikanth Toppaladoddi, University of Leeds) 2026-01-23 17:30: Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song? (Professor Hans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University) 2026-01-26 13:05: CodeSpeak: From Kotlin to CodeSpeak: Programming Languages and AI Coding Tools (Andrey Breslav) 2026-01-26 16:15: Chemogenetic and optogenetic approaches to studying visual memory (Mark Eldridge, Newcastle University) 2026-01-26 19:30: The Hidden Universe of The Human Microbiome and Its Role In Health and Disease: How DNA sequencing approaches can help us understand the hidden dark matter of the human microbiome (Dr. Alexandre Almeida, School of the Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge) 2026-01-27 11:00: Talk by Uri Berger: Multimodality and Human Alignment in Vision-Language Models (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem) (Uri Berger (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem)) 2026-01-27 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - January 2026 (Ida Häggström, Associate Professor, Unit of Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) 2026-01-27 12:00: Competence, Pain and the Geometry of Intelligence: Three Perspectives on Learning and Representation (Prof Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)) 2026-01-28 11:00: Ultra-tough metals via high strain-hardening (Professor Thomas Pardoen, UCLouvain and WEL Research Institute) 2026-01-28 17:00: Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Self-Supervised Learning in the Foundation Model Era (Yisen Wang) 2026-01-29 09:00: Infinite Hidden Semi-Markov Models (Carl Ashworth; Vince Velkey) 2026-01-29 13:00: RO-Crate: Packaging research outputs with their metadata for reproducibility across domains (Eli Chadwick, Senior Research Software Engineer - eScience Lab, University of Manchester) 2026-01-29 14:00: CANCELLED - Entrenchment and compensation in the evolution of vertebrate gastrulation (Dr James DiFrisco from The Francis Crick Institute, London) 2026-01-30 13:00: Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes (Patrick Cai, University of Manchester) 2026-01-30 16:00: Has springy-ness come to the North Atlantic? (Yueng-Djern Lenn, Bangor University) 2026-01-30 17:30: Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place (Dr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-02 13:05: Roku: Reinventing the Living‑Room UI: Roku's New Home Screen (Salman Khan, Software Engineer) 2026-02-02 16:15: Building deep internal models during periods of rest and sleep (Helen Barron, University of Oxford) 2026-02-02 18:00: Cars, aeroplanes, and quantum physics: Why complexity makes life simpler for the vibration engineer (Professor Robin Langley FREng. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-03 09:00: Mind-body dualism: A perceptual core (Ehud Ahissar, Weizmann Institute for Science) 2026-02-03 14:00: Tackling Label Corruptions: Univariate Polynomial Regression and Generalized Linear Models (Sushrut Karmalkar, Microsoft Research) 2026-02-03 15:00: Cross-Species 3D Animal Model-Based Reconstruction (Silvia Zuffi, IMATI, Italian National Research Council) 2026-02-04 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 II (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-02-05 13:00: UBiKuity: Trying to get RSE right on the first try (Thomas Daggitt - British Antarctic Survey) 2026-02-05 16:00: Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Roser Vento-Torno (Dr Roser Vento-Torno, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-06 13:00: Decoding bivalency: Mechanisms of poising at developmental gene promoters (Philipp Voigt, Babraham Institute) 2026-02-06 14:00: Data-Driven Constitutive Modelling for Non-Equilibrium Systems (Dr. Shenglin Huang, Sheffield University ) 2026-02-06 16:00: Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug (Jing Huang (Stanford University)) 2026-02-06 16:00: On the dynamics of fast rotating stars (Michel Rietuord, University of Toulouse) 2026-02-06 17:30: Songs We Grow By (Dr Ibrahim Baltagi, Lebanese American University) 2026-02-09 13:05: Ab Initio: Data Governance, Metadata Management and Why You Should Care (James Wyper and Özge Küçükakça) 2026-02-09 16:15: Learning to perceive what is important: An olfactory optimisation story (Jamie Johnston, University of Leeds) 2026-02-09 19:30: Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design (Prof Bill O’Neill FREng, FInstP, FLIA, FIAPLE, Director of the Centre for Industrial Photonics, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-10 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Genomic newborn screening, and how to evaluate it" (Ellen Thomas, Genomics England) 2026-02-11 18:00: Building Embodied Intelligence: Insights from Wayve’s Journey in Autonomous Driving (Dr Alex Kendall) 2026-02-12 09:00: Compositional Generalization and Learning (Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai) 2026-02-12 11:00: Towards Causally Reliable Concept-based Models (Giovanni De Felice (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Arianna Casanova Flores (University of Liechtenstein), and Francesco De Santis (Politecnico di Torino)) 2026-02-12 13:00: Where do we stand on the origin of eukaryotic cells? (Dr Tom Williams from Bristol Palaeobiology Research Group, University of Bristol) 2026-02-12 13:00: Making Gravity SWIFTer: GPU offloads for gravity in the SWIFT cosmology code (Sarah Johnston - Durham University) 2026-02-12 16:00: Neural Symbolic Interpretability (Pietro Barbiero (IBM Zurich)) 2026-02-12 16:30: You Know It or You Don’t: Categorical Differences in Language Model Behavior (Naomi Saphra (Harvard University & Boston University)) 2026-02-13 13:00: Lineage architecture of the human and avian spinal cord revealed by single cell genomic barcoding (Giulia Boezio, Francis Crick Institute) 2026-02-13 14:00: 3D/4D static recrystallisation and grain growth behaviour in magnesium alloys (Dr Dikai Guan, University of Southampton) 2026-02-13 16:00: The emerging causal paradigm in interpretability (Atticus Geiger (Goodfire) ) 2026-02-13 16:00: Singular inertial waves (Stephane Le Dizes, IRPHE) 2026-02-13 17:30: Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance (Dr Matthew Gordley, Carlow University) 2026-02-16 12:00: TITLE: Evaluating machine learning models for prediction of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among autistic individuals using genetic data (Niran Okewole, Department of Psychiatry) 2026-02-16 12:30: What Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Woman Can Do? Weaponised Attachment and the Invisible Abuser (Mags Lesiak, Institute of Criminology) 2026-02-16 16:15: Brainwide sequences of neural activity (Matteo Carandini, University College London) 2026-02-16 18:00: What insect-watching can tell us about the evolution of animal behaviour (Dr William Foster) 2026-02-17 15:00: Large Language Models, Model Collapse, and the Conservation of Information (George Montanez) 2026-02-17 16:00: Catastrophic Forgetting and Explainable AI in Large-Scale Models for Neuroscience (Dr. Michail Mamalakis (University of Cambridge)) 2026-02-18 14:00: Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory (Prof Marcus Hutter, Google DeepMind, London) 2026-02-18 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 III (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-02-19 14:00: Control of Lumped-Distributed Control Systems (Richard Vinter, Imperial College) 2026-02-19 16:00: Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr HaDi MaBouDi (Dr HaDi MaBouDi, University of Sheffield) 2026-02-20 12:00: Large Language Models' Complicit Responses to Illicit Instructions across Socio-Legal Contexts (Huiyuan Xie (Tsinghua University/Cambridge University)) 2026-02-20 14:00: Microstructurally informed material modelling workflows for fusion engineering applications ( Dr. Pratheek Shanthraj, UKAEA) 2026-02-20 16:00: Postdoc Talks (Postdocs) 2026-02-20 17:30: Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900 (Dr Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music) 2026-02-23 12:30: The role of Selenoprotein O in mitochondrial signaling (Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research) 2026-02-23 16:15: The emergence of perception through subcortico-cortical loops (Livia de Hoz, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-23 16:15: 2026 Scott Lectures: Spintronics for massive data memory-storage – past present and future (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)) 2026-02-23 19:30: CANCELLED .....CSAR lecture: Finding common ground (Professor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University) 2026-02-24 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - February 2026 (Margherita Favali and Tiago Assis) 2026-02-25 16:15: 2026 Scott Lectures: 2D van der Waals materials for spintronics (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)) 2026-02-26 09:00: Multiplexed representations of decision content and uncertainty in visual processin (Dominik Straub; Ishan Kalburge) 2026-02-26 11:00: Actionable Interpretability for AI Safety (Prof. Mor Geva (Tel Aviv University)) 2026-02-26 13:00: FTorch: facilitating hybrid ML-numerical modelling in scientific computing (Joe Wallwork and Jack Atkinson, RSEs - ICCS, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-26 14:00: BSU Seminar: "New Bayesian methods and tools to address health challenges" (Dr Raiha Browning, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) 2026-02-26 14:00: Automatically Formally Verified Hardware using Aristotle (Satnam Singh, Software Engineer, Harmonic) 2026-02-26 14:00: The brain as a changing operating environment (Charles Micou, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-27 11:00: 2026 Scott Lectures: Superconducting Spintronics for Racetrack Memory (Prof Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics)) 2026-02-27 12:00: What Happens When They're Smarter Than Us? (Dr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute)) 2026-02-27 13:00: To divide or differentiate, that is the question (Anna Philpott, Department of Oncology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute) 2026-02-27 16:00: AI weather forecasting: past, present and future (Richard Turner, University of Cambridge) 2026-02-27 17:30: Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology (Professor Conny Aerts, KU Leuven) 2026-03-02 16:15: A cortico-hippocampal dialogue governing memory consolidation (Dan Bendor, University College London) 2026-03-02 18:00: What is Digital Identity all about? (Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS. Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge) 2026-03-03 15:00: Mechanistic and Attributional Interpretability in Neuroscience (Dr. Michail Mamalakis (University of Cambridge)) 2026-03-03 16:00: Mechanistic Interpretability - Progress and Limits (Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind)) 2026-03-04 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 IV (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-03-05 13:00: Viruses: from within-host evolution to global pandemics (Professor Katrina Lythgoe from Department of Biology, University of Oxford) 2026-03-05 13:00: NDSL: A Programming Framework for Climate Model Development, or “The Joy of Building Your Own Domain-Specific Software Stack” (Oliver Elbert - Computational Scientist, NOAA GFDL) 2026-03-05 16:00: Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Aleksej Zelezniak (Dr Aleksej Zelezniak, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and King's College London) 2026-03-06 12:00: Generalised measures of predictive uncertainty in online language processing (Mario Giulianelli (UCL)) 2026-03-06 13:00: Inter-Organ Communication and Metabolic Regulation in Drosophila (Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School) 2026-03-06 17:30: Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948 (Professor Issa Boulos, University of Chicago) 2026-03-09 13:05: JetBrains: Building and using AI agents with JetBrains (Jaiditya Khemani) 2026-03-09 16:00: Rethinking aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty (Freddie Bickford Smith (University of Oxford)) 2026-03-09 16:15: The function of the top-down processes in the visual cortex: contextual processing and scene segmentation (Matthew Self, University of Glasgow) 2026-03-09 19:30: CSAR lecture: Millimetre-wave antenna designs for future wireless communications and radar sensor applications (Dr James Henderson, Plextek Services Limited) 2026-03-10 15:00: AI/ML in bioinformatics and CNS drug discovery (Francesco Tuveri) 2026-03-11 11:00: Machine Learning on Tabular Data (Arik Reuter and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge)) 2026-03-11 11:00: Discovering mathematical concepts through a multi-agent system (Daattavya Aggarwal) 2026-03-11 11:00: Discovering mathematical concepts through a multi-agent system (Daattavya Aggarwal (University of Cambridge)) 2026-03-11 12:00: Deep-layered machines have a built-in Occam's razor (Dr Thomas Fink, Director, London Institute for Mathematical Sciences) 2026-03-11 12:00: Deep-layered machines have a built-in Occam's razor (Thomas Fink (Director, The London Institute for Mathematical Sciences)) 2026-03-12 13:00: High-performance computing with the Julia language (Mosè Giordano - Principal RSE, UCL ARC) 2026-03-12 14:00: Remodelling the septin cytoskeleton for cytokinesis in budding yeast (Dr Simonetta Piatti from Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier) 2026-03-12 14:00: Toward Scalable Neuromorphic Control: From Conductance Modelling to Hierarchical Event-Based Architectures (Yongkang Huo, University of Cambridge) 2026-03-12 15:00: Formal symbolic models for LLMs: pretraining, evaluation and post-training (Prof. Tal Linzen (NYU & Google)) 2026-03-12 15:00: Run Time Reoptimization for Modern Heterogenous Systems (George Neville-Neil ()) 2026-03-13 13:00: Illuminating mechanisms of PGC migration in the early mouse embryo (Kate McDole (LMB)) 2026-03-13 14:00: On the Feasibility of a Digital Twin of Additive Manufacturing and Fatigue (Professor Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University ) 2026-03-13 16:00: Dynamics of fire and ice: wildfire weather and physics of the granular cryosphere (Kasturi Shah, DAMTP) 2026-03-13 17:30: How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song (Richard Morrison, The Times) 2026-03-16 16:15: Targeting AD-related pathophysiology with non-invasive brain stimulation (Sam Barnes, Imperial College London) 2026-03-16 18:00: Peer review, past, present… and future (Professor Aileen Fyfe FRSE, FRHistS, FHEA, University of St Andrews) 2026-03-17 15:00: Interpretability in the Wild: When Explainability Meets Causality and Clinical Reality (Prof Sonali Parbhoo (Imperial College London)) 2026-03-17 15:00: Neural semantic reasoning for interpretable and rigorous logical reasoning (Dr. Tiansi Dong) 2026-03-18 11:00: Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale (Bidipta Sarkar (University of Oxford)) 2026-03-18 11:00: Evolution Strategies at the Hyperscale (Bidipta Sarkar (University of Oxford)) 2026-03-18 16:30: Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 V (Speaker to be confirmed) 2026-03-19 11:00: Beyond Surface Matching: Reasoning, Grounding, and Retrieval in Vision-Language Models (Prof. Vicente Ordóñez-Román (Rice University)) 2026-03-20 12:00: AI Metrics: Theoretical Foundations, Design, and Selection of Evaluation Metrics Based on Ground Truth (Enrique Amigó (National University of Distance Education, Madrid, Spain)) 2026-03-20 13:00: Aneuploidy and its impact on human embryo development (Marta Shahbazi) 2026-03-20 14:00: Shock-Induced Pore Collapse in PMMA: Deformation Physics and Failure Mechanics (Professor Guruswami Ravichandran, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology) 2026-03-20 16:00: Fluid dynamics of the aqueous humour of the eye (Jennifer Tweedy, University of Bath) 2026-03-23 11:00: Towards a Comprehensive View on Technology Transparency: Cross-Technology Investigations of Users’ Transparency Needs and Perceptions (Ilka Hein, LMU Munich) 2026-03-23 12:30: How life finds a way: resilience in mammalian embryogenesis (Sarah Bowling, PhD. Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at Stanford University School of Medicine​) 2026-03-24 11:45: Cambridge MedAI Seminar - March 2026 (Anoushka Harit and Dr Hania Paverd) 2026-03-24 15:00: From Stochastic Interpolants to Flow Maps: Foundations, Fast Generation, and Applications to Weather & Climate Modeling (Abbas Mammadov (University of Oxford)) 2026-03-26 09:00: Hippocampal neuronal activity is aligned with action plans (Changmin Yu) 2026-03-26 15:00: Compositional Design of Society-Critical Systems: From Autonomy to Future Mobility ( Gioele Zardini) 2026-03-27 09:00: David MacKay: Energy and Information (One-Day Meeting) 2026-04-01 13:30: Reinforcement Learning with Exogenous States and Rewards (Professor Thomas G. Dietterich, School of EECS, Oregon State University) 2026-04-03 15:00: Forward Pass as Heat Flow (Kartik Tandon) 2026-04-07 14:00: BSU Seminar: "A unifying framework for generalised Bayesian online learning in non-stationary environments" (Gerado Duran-Martin, Oxford-Man Institute, University of Oxford ) 2026-04-09 15:00: GraphNeuralRAG: On the Opportunities and Challenges of GNNs for GraphRAG, from Multi-Hop Question Answering to Perturbation Modelling (Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Sapienza University of Rome, ISTI-CNR) 2026-04-10 16:00: Computer-Assisted Proofs of 3D Euler Singularity and Nonuniqueness of Leray–Hopf Solutions for the Unforced 3D Navier–Stokes Equations (Tom Hou, Caltech) 2026-04-13 14:00: BSU Seminar: "Nonparametric causal decomposition of group disparities" (Ang Yu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) 2026-04-14 14:30: BSU Seminar: "Generating crossmodal gene expression from cancer histopathology improves multimodal AI predictions" (Samiran Dey, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkota) 2026-04-17 12:00: CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Execution-Free Reward Models (Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST)) 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 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 11:45: 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)) 2026-04-30 13:00: Content, Caching and Kubernetes: Performance and User Experience in the Browser (Laurents Marker - Software developer, National Centre for Atmospheric Science) 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 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)) 2026-05-01 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Duncan MacLachlan, Rolls Royce) 2026-05-07 15:00: Talk by Aaron Mueller (Boston University) (Aaron Mueller (Boston 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) 2026-05-13 09:00: C2D3 Computational Biology Annual Symposium 2026 (Keynote: Natasha Latysheva (Google DeepMind)) 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 16:00: Talk by Fazl Barez (Oxford) (Fazl Barez (Oxford)) 2026-05-15 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge)) 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 12:30: TBC (Luke Gilbert, PhD, Associate Professor of Urology, University of California, San Francisco) 2026-05-28 14:00: Talk by Aditi Raghunathan (CMU) (Aditi Raghunathan (CMU)) 2026-06-01 19:30: CSAR lecture: Climate Repair (TBC) (Prof. Shaun Fitzgerald, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) 2026-06-04 16:00: Talk by Prof. Kilian Weinberger (Cornell) (Prof. Kilian Weinberger (Cornell)) 2026-06-04 17:00: Positional encodings in LLMs (Valeria Ruscio) 2026-06-11 14:00: Talk by Hendrik Buschmeier (Bielefeld University) (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 Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) (Nicholas Tomlin (NYU & Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)) 2026-06-25 10:00: Talk by Robert West (EPFL) (Robert West (EPFL)) 2026-06-25 10:00: Talk by Robert West (EPFL) (Robert West (EPFL)) 2026-07-09 11:45: Cambridge AI in Medicine Seminar - July 2026 (Mengling Feng and Kai He) 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) : Title to be confirmed (Dr Nick Lane) : HP: Title tbc (Ian Pratt)