2026 CMP Lunchtime Seminar Series
CMP hosts are invited to give short presentations about their proposed projects at the CMP Lunchtime Seminar Series. The seminar will include a buffet lunch and be followed by tea and coffee in the Central Core where interested students will have the opportunity to talk informally with the hosts to find out more about their projects.
The CMP Lunchtime Seminars will take place in Meeting Room 3 from 1:30pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in February 2026. The schedule for each week will be posted below as speakers are confirmed.
Presentations will be recorded where possible (and where permission is granted by the speakers), but we recommend attending in person if you are able. To view the recordings, you will need to first log into the CMP Moodle with your CRSID and password. You should only need to go via the Moodle the first time; afterwards, you can just click on the direct link to the recording.
Upcoming Seminars
Tuesday 3 February 2026
This first seminar in the series will feature a panel discussion with some students who worked on CMP projects in 2025 as well as a short presentation from Dr Sonali Shukla (Careers Consultant) from the Careers Service with advice on making your applications.
Student Panel:
Ben Handley, Sainsbury Laboratory
Modelling the unknowns! How do plant cells develop, grow and communicate?
Jack Brightwell, Signaloid
Discrete Representations of Continuous Probability Distributions
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Charlotte Garcia, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
Denoising and optimising neural data in cochlear implant users
Marj Batchelor, Cambridge Violin Makers & Faculty of Mathematics
Correlations between shape and sound: a resource for violinmakers
Amy Zheng, VisionLab, Department of Physics
Reducing Skin-Tone Bias in Clinical Photoacoustic Imaging using Machine Learning and Computational Modelling
Learning the Gap Between Simulated and Experimental Spectral Data
Tuesday 10 February 2026
Argyris Zardilis, Sainsbury Laboratory
Learning the Physics of Growth: Automated Discovery of Mechanistic Rules in Flower Development
Amir Porat, Sainsbury Laboratory
Mechanochemical Feedback and Growth Dynamics in Rod-Like Plant Organs
Cellularization and Perturbations of Self-Similar Plant Growth
Euan Smithers, Sainsbury Laboratory
Can we use dynamical systems to predict what has happened in the past?
Wednesday 11 February 2026
TBA
Tuesday 17 February 2026
TBA
Wednesday 18 February 2026
TBA
Tuesday 24 February 2026
Nehal Patel, G-Research
Agentic AI for Formalized Math
Jan Novotny, Nomura International Plc
Fragmented Order-book Content Assessment and Liquidity-weighting (FOCAL)
Paul McCloud, Nomura International Plc
Option pricing with quantum information
Wednesday 25 February 2026
TBA