2025 CMP Lunchtime Seminar Series
CMP hosts are invited to give short presentations about their proposed projects at the CMP Lunchtime Seminar Series. The seminar includes a buffet lunch and is followed by tea and coffee in the Central Core where interested students have the opportunity to talk informally with the hosts to find out more about their projects.
The 2025 CMP Lunchtime Seminar Series has now finished. Recordings have been made available where possible (and where permission was granted by the speakers) - please see below for links.
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.
Seminars
Tuesday 4 February 2025, 1:30-3:00pm, MR3
This first seminar in the series featured a panel discussion with some students who worked on CMP projects in 2024 as well as a short presentation from Dr Sonali Shukla (Careers Consultant) from the Careers Service with advice on making your applications.
There is no recording of this seminar due to technical issues.
Dr Sonali Shukla, Careers Consultant, Cambridge University Careers Service
Getting an Internship: a look at CVs and Cover Letters
The student panel:
Erdem Baha Topbas, Deep Hearing Lab, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Statistical Properties of Speech: Guiding the Generation of Synthetic Speech Corpora
Weronika Wiesiolek, Riverlane
Highly accurate and performant quantum error decoding
Alexander Makarovskiy, ORCA Computing
Solving graph problems with a photonic quantum processor
Scott Hislop, MRC Biostatistics Unit
Discovery of novel biomarkers using unsupervised statistical learning
Wednesday 5 February 2025, 1:30-2:30pm, MR3
Click here to view the recording of this seminar on Panopto (If you have never done so, you will need to log into the CMP Moodle with your CRSID and password before clicking the link)
Michael Negus and Laurence Cullen, Vanellus Technologies Ltd
Accelerate CFD convergence with improved field initialisation and mixed precision solves
Fabio Rigat, AstraZeneca PLC
Hallmarks of cancer regression
Michael Selby, Signaloid Ltd
Discrete Representations of Continuous Probability Distributions
Uday Kiran, Amazon Lab126
Prisoners Dilemma, LLMs as agents
Tuesday 11 February, 1:30-2:30pm, MR3
Click here to view the recording of this seminar on Panopto (If you have never done so, you will need to log into the CMP Moodle with your CRSID and password before clicking the link)
Euan Smithers, Sainsbury Laboratory
Modelling the unknowns! How do plant cells develop, grow and communicate?
Argyris Zardilis, Sainsbury Laboratory
Unsupervised learning for data integration and hypotheses generation in flower development
Dorothée Arzounian, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Shaping electrical stimulation in hearing implants
Tracking changes in human sensory performance over time
Wednesday 12 February 2025
***No seminar today***
Friday 14 February 2025, 1:00-3:00pm, Central Core **CV and Cover Letter Drop In Session**
Dr Sonali Shah, Careers Consultant from Cambridge University Careers Service will be hosting this drop in session in the Central Core. If you want an expert's advice on your own CV or a draft cover letter, then don't miss this chance to come and chat to her!
Tuesday 18 February, 1:30-2:30pm, MR3
Click here to view the recording of this seminar on Panopto (If you have never done so, you will need to log into the CMP Moodle with your CRSID and password before clicking the link)
Marianne Freiberger and Rachel Thomas, Plus (plus.maths.org), Millennium Mathematics Project, DAMTP
Communicating mathematics - uncovering the story behind new research
Jerome Boulanger, MRC-LMB and University of Cambridge
Virtual labelling for label free microscopy
Elise Laruelle, Sainsbury Laboratory
Parameter inference from time-lapse images
Wednesday 19 February 2025, 1:30-2:30pm, MR3
Click here to view the recording of this seminar on Panopto (If you have never done so, you will need to log into the CMP Moodle with your CRSID and password before clicking the link)
Chris Hunter, Pharo Management
Bucketed interest rate risk
Samuel Martin, EMBL-EBI, Goldman Group
Research in the Goldman group (EMBL-EBI): pandemic-scale phylogenetics and phylogenetic networks.
Tuesday 25 February, 1:30-2:30pm, MR3
Click here to view the recording of this seminar on Panopto (If you have never done so, you will need to log into the CMP Moodle with your CRSID and password before clicking the link). Please note, the second presentation (Sarah Bohndiek) was a video/virtual presentation and the sound doesn't come through very well on the Panopto recording. You can view the original video here (you'll need to log into Google with your CRSID and password).
Amir Porat, Sainsbury Laboratory
Modelling Cellular Kinematics in Self-Similar Plant Growth
Sarah Bohndiek, Bohndiek Lab, Department of Physics (virtual/video presentation)
Understanding skin tone bias in photoacoustics
Steve Mead, Bohndiek Lab, Department of Physics
Supervised machine learning in digital pathology applied to the detection of disease in oesophageal lesions
Wednesday 26 February 2025, 1:30-2:30pm, MR3
Click here to view the recording of this seminar on Panopto (If you have never done so, you will need to log into the CMP Moodle with your CRSID and password before clicking the link)
Orange Gao, Amazon Lab126
Enabling Large Models for Edge AI with Disentanglement and Compositionality
Charles Gong, LifeArc
Machine learning on multimodal and unstructured data for healthcare applications
Patrik Engi, Unilever, SERS
Exploring the use of Generative Adversarial Networks for synthetic data generation