These meetings take place every other Thursday for people to catch up on research, give short informal talks or walk us through a paper theyβve worked on or would like to discuss. If you would like to propose a theme, give a short talk, or discuss a paper, please contact the talk organiser.
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3 upcoming talks
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π€ James Rogers (Kavli Senior Fellow in Exoplanets, IoA, Cambridge)
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Thursday 16 April 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Uri Ryb (Geochemistry, Hebrew University)
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Thursday 02 April 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Thanja Lamberts (Astrochemistry, Leiden Observatory)
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Thursday 19 March 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Eric Smith (Santa Fe Institute)
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Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:00-17:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Greg Cooke (Cambridge IoA)
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Thursday 05 March 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ D. Eric Smith (Physics, Sante Fe Institute)
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Thursday 26 February 2026, 16:00-17:00
π Location TBA
π€ Greg Fournier (EAPS, MIT)
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Thursday 19 February 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Skyla White (Cavendish, Cambridge)
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Thursday 05 February 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Gabriel Giger (Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich)
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Thursday 29 January 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room TBA
π€ Yarong Liu (Cambridge Zoology)
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Thursday 22 January 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Edouard Barrier (IoA, Cambridge)
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Thursday 15 January 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Shoaib Malik (Science and Religion, University of Edinburgh)
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Thursday 08 January 2026, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Paula Jofre (UDP Chile)
π
Thursday 11 December 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ ClΓ udia Jano-Munoz (Astrophysics, Cambridge)
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Thursday 27 November 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Eliel Anttila (ETH Geology)
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Wednesday 26 November 2025, 16:00-17:00
π RDC Seminar East
π€ Nick Tosca (Cambridge Earth Science)
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Thursday 20 November 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Paul B Rimmer (Cavendish, Cambridge)
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Thursday 13 November 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Amy Bonsor (IoA, Cambridge) and Richard Anslow (IoA, Cambridge)
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Thursday 06 November 2025, 11:00-12:00
π RDC Seminar East
π€ All of you!
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Thursday 30 October 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Perig Pitrou (anthropologist, CNRS senior researcher, Maison FranΓ§aise dβOxford)
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Thursday 23 October 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room G05
π€ Sarah Rugheimer (Edinburgh Observatory)
π
Thursday 16 October 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Kira Podolsky (Chemistry & Biology, MIT)
π
Wednesday 15 October 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Doug Lin
π
Thursday 02 October 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Martin Ryle Large Meeting Room, KICC
π€ Jules Macome (Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science)
π
Thursday 29 May 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ David Russell (Cambridge Biochemistry)
π
Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Ligia F Coelho (Cornell Astronomy)
π
Thursday 15 May 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Nicole Shibley (Cambridge, DAMTP)
π
Thursday 08 May 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Steven Benner (FfAME Distinguished Fellow)
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Tuesday 06 May 2025, 11:00-12:00
π East Seminar Room, Ray Dolby Centre
π€ Clancy Jiang (Cambridge Earth Science)
π
Thursday 24 April 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Rick Anslow & Tereza Constantinou (Cambridge IoA)
π
Thursday 10 April 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Catriona McDonald (Cambridge IoA)
π
Thursday 03 April 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ None
π
Thursday 27 March 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Jack Szostak (Chemistry, University of Chicago)
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Wednesday 19 March 2025, 15:00-16:00
π Martin Ryle Large Meeting Room, KICC
π€ Fred Simmons (Cambridge Divinity)
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Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Ilya Bobrovskiy (Organic Geochemistry, Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences)
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Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Luis Ohlendorf (UCL, Chemistry)
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Thursday 27 February 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Marc Laflamme (Earth Science, University of Toronto Mississauga)
π
Thursday 20 February 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Greg Cooke (Cambridge IoA)
π
Thursday 13 February 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ ZoΓ« Lehmann Imfeld (UniversitΓ€t Bern, English)
π
Thursday 30 January 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Sai Shruthi Murali (Cambridge Physics)
π
Thursday 16 January 2025, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ None
π
Thursday 05 December 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Felix Sainsbury-Martinez (Leeds Astrophysics)
π
Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Pavan Tanna (Cambridge, IoA)
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Thursday 21 November 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Margarida Hermida (Kings College London, Philosophy)
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Thursday 07 November 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Euan Furness (Cambridge Zoology)
π
Thursday 24 October 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Glover Room, Memorial Court, Clare College
π€ Gregory & Virginia Chaitin
π
Thursday 10 October 2024, 16:00-17:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Manuel Scherf (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
π
Wednesday 09 October 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Jonah Peter (Harvard Biophysics)
π
Thursday 19 September 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Laurent Wiesenfeld (Lab. AimΓ©-Cotton CNRS & UniversitΓ© Paris-Saclay)
π
Thursday 05 September 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room G05
π€ Zoe Todd (Chemistry & Astronomy, University of Wisconsin)
π
Thursday 11 July 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Robin Wordsworth (Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard)
π
Thursday 27 June 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Craig Walton (ETH Zurich)
π
Thursday 20 June 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Mohammad Farhat (Paris Observatory)
π
Thursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Siyi Xu (Gemini Observatory, MIT)
π
Thursday 06 June 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Ben Tutolo (Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment; University of Calgary)
π
Thursday 23 May 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Nidhi Rohit Bangera - OeAW (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
π
Thursday 16 May 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Chris Oldfield (Cambridge Philosophy)
π
Thursday 09 May 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Jules Macome (Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science)
π
Thursday 25 April 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Sean Jordan (Cambridge IoA)
π
Thursday 11 April 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ N/A
π
Thursday 28 March 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Andrew Robinson (Exeter Theology)
π
Thursday 14 March 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Rafal Szabla (Wroclaw Tech, Chemistry)
π
Thursday 29 February 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ David Baum (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Botany)
π
Thursday 15 February 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Richard Anslow (Cambridge IoA)
π
Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Barbara Sherwood Lollar (University of Toronto Earth Sciences)
π
Thursday 25 January 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock F17 + online
π€ Tereza Constantinou (Cambridge IoA)
π
Thursday 18 January 2024, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Liton Majumdar (NISER, Exoplanets and Planetary Formation Group)
π
Thursday 07 December 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Stephane Mazevet (Nice, Observatoire de la CΓ΄te d'Azur)
π
Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Lloyd Demetrius (Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard)
π
Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock F17 + online
π€ Sam Roberts (MRC-LMB)
π
Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard Astronomy)
π
Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Alejandro Paredes (UNAM, Earth Science)
π
Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room location TBA
π€ Skyla White (Cambridge Physics)
π
Thursday 12 October 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Paul B Rimmer (Cambridge Physics)
π
Thursday 28 September 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ N/A
π
Thursday 14 September 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College
π€ Summer Interns
π
Thursday 31 August 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room location TBA
π€ Joanna Drazkowska, MPS GΓΆttingen
π
Thursday 24 August 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Anders Johansen (Lund)
π
Thursday 17 August 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room TBA
π€ Martin Suttle (Open University)
π
Thursday 10 August 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room location TBA
π€ Sy Garte (Rutgers)
π
Thursday 20 July 2023, 15:00-16:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Marrick Braam (Edinburgh)
π
Thursday 06 July 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room F17
π€ Annelies Mortier (Birmingham)
π
Thursday 08 June 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Battcock, Room location TBA
π€ Philipp Spillmann - Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
π
Thursday 25 May 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Dieter Braun (LMU, Munich)
π
Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Abhishek Upadhyay - Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
π
Thursday 27 April 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Everyone!
π
Thursday 13 April 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Eran Tal (McGill University)
π
Thursday 06 April 2023, 15:00-16:00
π Battcock, F17
π€ Christopher Shingledecker, Benedictine College
π
Thursday 30 March 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Casey Platnich - Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
π
Thursday 16 March 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Furkan Ozturk - Harvard
π
Thursday 02 March 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Callum Fairbairn & Nathan Magnan, DAMTP, Cambridge
π
Thursday 16 February 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Corinna Kufner (Harvard)
π
Thursday 09 February 2023, 15:00-16:00
π Battcock, F17
π€ Jonathan Jiang, NASA JPL
π
Thursday 02 February 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Cyrille Jeancolas, University of Durham
π
Thursday 19 January 2023, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Caroline Bassett (Cambridge)
π
Thursday 08 December 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
π€ BΓ©la Frohn (Max Planck)
π
Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
π€ Paul Rimmer (Cambridge)
π
Thursday 10 November 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Andrew Buchan (IoA)
π
Thursday 27 October 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Simon Conway Morris (Cambridge)
π
Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
π€ Seth Hart (University of Durham)
π
Thursday 29 September 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Paul B Rimmer
π
Thursday 15 September 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Meeting Room (G05), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
π€ Camillo Moschner (Cambridge)
π
Thursday 01 September 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Godwin Room, Clare College
π€ Alex Thom (Cambridge)
π
Thursday 04 August 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
π€ Patrick Barth (St Andrews)
π
Thursday 21 July 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Meeting Room (F17), Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics
π€ Hilke Schlichting (UCLA)
π
Tuesday 31 May 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Institute of Astronomy
π€ Filip Boskovic (Cavendish Laboratory)
π
Thursday 19 May 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Wolfson Seminar South, Trinity College
π€ Dr Andrew Davison (Faculty of Divinity)
π
Thursday 05 May 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Venue to be confirmed
π€ Speaker to be confirmed
π
Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College
π€ Donna Rodgers-Lee (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
π
Thursday 07 April 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College
π€ Speaker to be confirmed
π
Thursday 17 March 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College
π€ Craig Walton (Department of Earth Sciences)
π
Thursday 03 March 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College
π€ Craig Walton (Department of Earth Sciences)
π
Thursday 17 February 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College
π€ Sean Jordan (IoA)
π
Thursday 03 February 2022, 11:00-12:00
π Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College
Please see above for contact details for this list.