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Friday 27 March 2026, 09:00-17:45
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
David MacKay: Energy and Information
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Are Airborne Ultrafine Particles the Next Frontier in Air Pollution Research?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Peer review, past, present… and future
Cabinet of Natural History
Books and/of botany within Hans Sloane's library collection
Darwin College Lecture Series
How Song Shapes Society, and Society Shapes Song
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Resolving the Ediacaran enigma: Unravelling the fossil record of early animal evolution
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Millimetre-wave antenna designs for future wireless communications and radar sensor applications
Cabinet of Natural History
Telling plant stories: agency of botanicals in Cambridge's collections
Darwin College Lecture Series
Palestinian Song in Transition: The Interplay of Tradition and Innovation, 1936-1948
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
From Glycogen to Ubiquitin and back again
Cambridge Philosophical Society
What is Digital Identity all about?
Cabinet of Natural History
Kew Gardens Panel – Papers of natural history: publishing and archiving botany at Kew in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Darwin College Lecture Series
Songs of the Stars: unravelling stellar music with asteroseismology
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Reading your DNA
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CANCELLED .....CSAR lecture: Finding common ground
Scott Lectures
2026 Scott Lectures: Spintronics for massive data memory-storage – past present and future
Cabinet of Natural History
The fisherman's catastrophe, the historian's problem: on historicizations of water bodies as Second Nature
Darwin College Lecture Series
Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Electrons to Empires: A First-principles View on Science, Technology, and Politics in a Materials World
Cambridge Philosophical Society
What insect-watching can tell us about the evolution of animal behaviour
Darwin College Lecture Series
Song in the Ancient World: Echoes of Religion and Resistance
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Building Embodied Intelligence: Insights from Wayve’s Journey in Autonomous Driving
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Adventures in Molecular recognition: from one happy accident to another
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design
Cabinet of Natural History
Plant knowledge-making and the entanglements of natural things: investigations with Hans Sloane's herbarium
Darwin College Lecture Series
Songs We Grow By
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The death of consumerism and how we build a more sustainable future
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cars, aeroplanes, and quantum physics: Why complexity makes life simpler for the vibration engineer
Cabinet of Natural History
Representing the tropical 'hortus': natural knowledge in Michael Boym's Flora Sinensis (1656)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Building molecules that mimic biological function
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
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
Darwin College Lecture Series
Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Imaging the virosphere: protein architecture for virus assembly and host cell entry
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
From Planets to Exoplanets: the search for life, with the James Webb Telescope and others
Cabinet of Natural History
Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
It's a Wonderful Life: the bizarre animals that live in the worlds coldest ocean and their extreme adaptations
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A Lot of Hot Air: volcanic degassing and its impact on our environment
Cabinet of Natural History
Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
From deep time biogeomorphology to geo-evolutionary feedbacks
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR Lecture: Biopharmaceutical Development - The Journey from Molecule to Medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
Who was Henslow?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Understanding life - from genomes to organisms - using AI
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Putting the “S” into mechanics
Cabinet of Natural History
Viral ghosts and specimen hosts: pathogen detection in natural history museum collections
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
21-cm Cosmology: First Stars and Beyond
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science
Cabinet of Natural History
Resurrecting the list: exploring Coimbra Botanical Garden in 1800 through multi-species network visualisation
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
C-H Amination for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry: Reaction Development and Validation of Nitrene Intermediacy
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies
Cabinet of Natural History
Practical environmental narratives: managing land in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Machine learning force fields shows extreme generalisation
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy
Cabinet of Natural History
Making communication common: information architecture, classificatory schemes and reference aids in the repositories of early scientific societies
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Our Chiral Universe
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeking immunity: cacao research and the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, 1930–1940
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Simplifying Synthesis with Radical Cross-Coupling
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence
Cabinet of Natural History
Richard Relhan: can a portrait be reconstructed from the biographical bones?
Rausing Lecture
But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure
⚠️ Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Planting crops, gathering knowledge: scientific objects, plantation economies and knowledge production in nineteenth-century Guatemala
Cabinet of Natural History
Cave science, bat guano and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula, c. 1900
Cabinet of Natural History
Vere, Lady Lynch (1647–1682): women colonists as artists and scientists in early English Jamaica
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Bioelectronic Medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
'North to the future': deep ecological fieldwork in Arctic Alaska
Mordell Lectures
Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Unknown Maxwell
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Beyond the Standard Model of particle physics: a maths-driven journey to the unknown
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?
Cabinet of Natural History
Hybrid futures: unnatural acts in American gardens
Darwin College Lecture Series
Decoding our Humanity
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Black Holes & spin-offs
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing
Cabinet of Natural History
Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623
Darwin College Lecture Series
Polari - a Very Queer Code
Scott Lectures
2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays
⚠️ Refreshments will be served after the lecture
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Plasmonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life
Scott Lectures
2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering
⚠️ Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
'Making sense' of the prion hypothesis: theory and practice, 1996–2004
Darwin College Lecture Series
Wayfinding through the Human Genome
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Culinary chemistry: Exploring the science of baking with Josh Smalley
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: The Road to Zero Carbon Cement
Cabinet of Natural History
A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic
Darwin College Lecture Series
Eve's Byte of the Apple
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Strengthening control over stress: novel brain mechanisms and opportunities for intervention
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice
Cabinet of Natural History
Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Evolution on Islands: insights from silvereyes of the southwest Pacific
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation
Cabinet of Natural History
University of Cambridge HPS MPhil Flash Talks
Darwin College Lecture Series
Using Maths to Decode the Universe
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Nucleic-Acid based therapeutics: how to use mechanistic information to ensure "safe-by-design"
Cambridge Philosophical Society
To Bend or to Break? — new views on the hardening of metals
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropology's queer histories: John Layard's homosocial milieu and encounters in the field in Atchin (1914–15) and Cambridge
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Power of Music: A Journey Back to Home
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing
Darwin College Lecture Series
Bits with Soul
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
With a Little Help from My Friends: New Ways of Seeing Electrochemistry
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.
Cabinet of Natural History
Ginger as storied matter: decolonisation and display in Amgueddfa Cymru's Economic Botany collection
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Order, Disorder, Flexibility, Function
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Signals from the beginning of the universe
Cabinet of Natural History
The voyage of the sheep from Tibet: animal breeding in the 18th-century French Empire
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Viruses: Elegance in Their Simplicity, or Simply Bad News Wrapped in Protein?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?
Cabinet of Natural History
The first plants changed the planet and they used mud to do it
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Technology for Bioelectronic Medicine
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?
Cabinet of Natural History
'Indeed it is the thing itself': women and visual culture in the Earth Sciences, 1813–1850
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The rise of life on land: new insights from exceptionally preserved fossils
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Next Gen asset tracking using battery-free Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Seeing the invisible; the Dark Matter puzzle
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows
Cabinet of Natural History
'Where stones remained silent, plants spoke': practising historical biogeography in 19th-century Egypt
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Lessons for human TB and its treatment from the tiny transparent zebrafish larva
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Our archaeal origins
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries
Cabinet of Natural History
A plague from on high? Comets, disease and meteorology in late medieval England
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss
Rausing Lecture
Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durée
⚠️ Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Creating brain organoids to uncover what makes us human.
Cabinet of Natural History
Comets in medieval Arabic astronomical and historical treatise
Cabinet of Natural History
The cannibalized print: deconstructing Charles Estienne's anatomical woodcut illustrations in De dissectione (1545)
Mordell Lectures
Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?
Cabinet of Natural History
Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century
Cambridge Philosophical Society
SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart
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Cabinet of Natural History
Instructions for race-making: skull collecting at Edinburgh University's Natural History Museum
Darwin College Lecture Series
How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Cabinet of Natural History
Medical diagnoses through geomancy in medieval and early modern Europe
Darwin College Lecture Series
Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones
Cabinet of Natural History
Empire, indigenous knowledge and the practice of recording and classifying the plants of New Zealand, 1769–1838
Darwin College Lecture Series
Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CANCELLED: CSAR lecture: Graphene, Two Dimensional Materials & Delivering the Future of Electronic Devices
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs
Cabinet of Natural History
Planetary microbes: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, the agency and the politics of microbes, 1840s–1850s
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Exoplanet Revolution
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making
Cabinet of Natural History
The Pomeranian Cabinet of Philipp Hainhofer
Darwin College Lecture Series
A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections
Cabinet of Natural History
Fashion in bloom: exploring the presence of artificial flowers in the credit records of an 18th-century French fashion merchant
Darwin College Lecture Series
Are Revolutions Justified?
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin
Cabinet of Natural History
A backwards book? Authorship, eugenics, and the evolution of R.A. Fisher's The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Genetic Revolutions
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Development of a combined digital and biomarker test for Bipolar Disorder.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits
Cabinet of Natural History
Pierre Gassendi and monocular vision
Darwin College Lecture Series
On the Disappointment of Revolutions
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Unlocking cellular reprogramming to reverse ageing and age-driven diseases.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized
Cabinet of Natural History
Health knowledge and its gatekeepers: exchanges of knowledge between Tsimshian and Euro-Canadian missionaries in nineteenth-century British Columbia
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Short Cuts
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting
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Cabinet of Natural History
Corresponding lepidopterists and the British Lepidoptera collection, Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History)
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
ESA HydroGNSS Scout – A Small Satellite Mission Sensing Climate Variables using GNSS Reflectometry
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries
Cabinet of Natural History
Beyond 'polite science': middling women and the thirst for natural knowledge in the late eighteenth century
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Social prescribing - beyond pills
Cabinet of Natural History
Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy
⚠️ This seminar starts at 12noon
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration
Cabinet of Natural History
To drink or not to drink: understanding 'types' of water in seventeenth-century England
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: FlexEnable: Taking Organic Electronics from Lab to Fab
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.
Cabinet of Natural History
Erudite medicine in the vernacular: the early modern translations of Celsus' De medicina
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Developments in neuroscience (TBC)
Rausing Lecture
Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene
⚠️ Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Unsung Heroes of the Discovery of the Double Helix
Cabinet of Natural History
The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century
Cabinet of Natural History
Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics I
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens
Cabinet of Natural History
The many faces of meteorology: weather knowledge at the Société Royale de Médecine in the French Enlightenment
Cabinet of Natural History
Merchants of Enlightenment: making knowledge move between England and Sweden, 1700–72
Mordell Lectures
Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The CASSIOPeiA Solar Power Satellite: Dispatchable Green Energy from Space
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics
⚠️ Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age
Cabinet of Natural History
'Photography versus the pest': Shell chemicals, mass media and pesticides in post-war Britain
Darwin College Lecture Series
Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe
⚠️ Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The adolescent brain
Cabinet of Natural History
Water, politics and health across the Bay of Bengal
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?
⚠️ Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions
Cabinet of Natural History
Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England
Darwin College Lecture Series
Are we alone in the Universe?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Are there solutions for plastic degradation in protein sequence space?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery
Cabinet of Natural History
The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century
⚠️ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development
⚠️ Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals
Cabinet of Natural History
Encountering Ayahuasca in the devil's paradise: Amazonian science and Victorian violence in the nineteenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Antarctica:Isolated Continent
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit
Cabinet of Natural History
Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Closeting of Secrets
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes
⚠️ Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Space: The Final Front-queer
Lady Margaret Lectures
Lord Kelvin, First Baron of Largs: A Father of the Digital Age?
Cabinet of Natural History
Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer
Darwin College Lecture Series
On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls
Wolfson College Science Society
Science Student Research Series
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.
Cabinet of Natural History
Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Sustainable seafood for human health
Cabinet of Natural History
Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany
Wolfson College Science Society
Informing more sustainable development of the oil palm industry
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging
Cabinet of Natural History
From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis
Cabinet of Natural History
Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial Perspective
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cambridge Darwins in Conversation
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Controlling the cell cycle: A new model
Cabinet of Natural History
Re-enacting past experiments: how and why
Wolfson College Science Society
Wolfson Science Society Student Research Series
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Why We Aren't Just Great Apes
Cabinet of Natural History
'Oute of araby cometh the best': imported jewels, Arabic science and crusading nostalgia in medieval English lapidary traditions
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the Poles
Cabinet of Natural History
The household of Carl Linnaeus: organisation and performative practices
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Are we alone?
Wolfson College Science Society
Can biodiversity make children happy?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.
Cabinet of Natural History
Pleasures and perils of family-based natural history in early modern Europe
Wolfson College Science Society
Parental care: an evolutionary case of “use it or lose it”
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Projectile Fusion A new challenge in applied computational science and engineering
Cabinet of Natural History
Whale-watching in the archives: methodological experimentation for more-than-human histories
Cabinet of Natural History
Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)
Wolfson College Science Society
Using sleight of hand to investigate human action perception in diverse species and taxa
Rausing Lecture
Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making
⚠️ Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Caring only for canes? Botanical sociability in the Anglo-Caribbean in the age of revolution
Wolfson College Science Society
In-situ Monitoring of Photocatalytic Processes within Optofluidic Hollow-Core Fibre Microreactors using Various Spectroscopic Techniques
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR lecture: Protein self-assembly - From fundamentals to applications in materials and drug discovery
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Controlling Drug Transport With Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?
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Cabinet of Natural History
The Amazon Third Way and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: an attempt to overcome history through technology
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security
Mordell Lectures
Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Atmosphere-ocean interactions: Global-scale impacts on tropospheric chemistry
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.
Cabinet of Natural History
The political anatomy of natural history: on Petty's contrivance of the Down Survey (1655–1659)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Photosynthesis on an electrode
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic
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Cabinet of Natural History
Chinese natural history objects in 18th-century Paris: reflections on the non-circulation of knowledge
⚠️ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
Food and Cultural History
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
A Cambridge vaccine, targeting SARS-CoV-2 variants and related Coronaviruses
Darwin College Lecture Series
Food as Expression
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Lessons for Tuberculosis Pathogenesis and Treatment from the Zebrafish
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Should we Automate?
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc
Darwin College Lecture Series
X-rays and Food Safety
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Protein Nutrition, Healthy Ageing and Climate Change: How Do We Combine The Three?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Achieving sustainable productivity in agriculture through beneficial microbial associations.
Cabinet of Natural History
Bernardino Gomes' quest for 'local knowledge': ipecacuanha in Brazil around 1800
Darwin College Lecture Series
Food, Power and Society
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Structural Bio in the 21st Century
Cabinet of Natural History
What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India
Darwin College Lecture Series
Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics
Cabinet of Natural History
Interlaced spaces: the importance of fieldwork and presence on crop conservation histories
Wolfson College Science Society
Advances in Stroke Medicine: Blood Vessels, Brains, and Beyond
⚠️ Hybrid event: Register for webinar access details, see below
Darwin College Lecture Series
Food and Climate Change
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Birdwatching through Geological Time: A Paleontological Perspective on Avian Evolution
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Early detection of cancer: learning from the oesophagus, or how long is a piece of string?
Cabinet of Natural History
Tender curiosities: natural history and gendered knowledge-craft at country houses, counting houses, and Royal African Company factories
⚠️ Online only
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Energy and Matter at the Origin of Life
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Biology of Eating
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
To COVID-19 Detection: How physics can be used to create novel tests for viruses
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences
Cabinet of Natural History
The frog and the vine: indigenous knowledge, biomedical innovation, and biopiracy in Latin America
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Hunting for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities
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Cabinet of Natural History
The biological age of plant virus research: studying viruses through other organisms in 1920s and 1930s Britain
Wolfson College Science Society
We Are All Interconnected
⚠️ Hybrid event: register for zoom details
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Could we treat mental health disorders by disrupting maladaptive memories?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Pye Story: The history of one of Cambridge’s iconic technology companies.
Cabinet of Natural History
Remarks on Joachim Jungius's work method in botany: Ficus indica in his letters, notes, garden and Isagoge Phytoscopica
Cabinet of Natural History
The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge
⚠️ Special session, 10am, online only
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Who Cares about the History of Science?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain
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Cabinet of Natural History
'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Physics of Can and Can't
Rausing Lecture
The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world
⚠️ Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Amazing World of RNA
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Productivity Puzzle
Cabinet of Natural History
The upland exchange: village life in natural history, 1771–1832
Wolfson College Science Society
Biotransformation: learning Nature's art of unmaking drugs to sustainably make new drugs
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Exoplanet Revolution
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe
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Cabinet of Natural History
The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR webinar: Nanomanufacturing, batteries and the energy transition.
Wolfson College Science Society
Adaptations of Antarctic Marine Animals and Changing Environments
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR webinar: Asteroids, comets and impacts: should we worry?
Wolfson College Science Society
Dynamic relationships between social connections and information transmission
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR webinar: Ice templating for Regenerative Medicine - using ice to define cell-guiding frameworks for healing
Cabinet of Natural History
Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum
Wolfson College Science Society
Ageing in Harmony: Music’s Impact on Health & Well-being in Older Adults
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Cabinet of Natural History
Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland
Wolfson College Science Society
The keys to the past: a mixed-methods approach to reconstructing the 1812 eruption of La Soufrière St. Vincent
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.
Cabinet of Natural History
Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants
Wolfson College Science Society
Diseases without Borders: what can we do to combat the next pandemic
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Cabinet of Natural History
Hearsay, gossip, misapprehension: Alfred Newton's second-hand histories of extinction
Wolfson College Science Society
Stories from Tree Rings
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR webinar: Innovation - the engine of economic growth
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
LECTURE - title to be confirmed
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Cambridge Philosophical Society
Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty
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Wolfson College Science Society
Empire in Mesopotamia… Felled by Dust?
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Mass spectrometry: From ribosomes to receptors
Cabinet of Natural History
Governance of and by paper: natural history and the Dutch Empire in Southeast Asia, 1800–1850
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The art of conversation
Wolfson College Science Society
Challenges in Building a Career in Discoveries and Their Translation; Journey to the Unknown
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Darwin College Lecture Series
Blood Sculptures
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR webinar: Space Weather - exploring the science, impacts and challenges posed by space weather.
Cabinet of Natural History
Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road
Darwin College Lecture Series
Cold Blood
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Challenges in the development of therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks
⚠️ YouTube Lecture available online now
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas
⚠️ YouTube Lecture available online now
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk
⚠️ YouTube Lecture available online now
Cabinet of Natural History
Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge
Wolfson College Science Society
Back to the Future: Ice Cores and Climate Science
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Darwin College Lecture Series
Blood villains and heros
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Observing the light of the distant Universe
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR webinar: Driving Insurance Innovation: Data Science and Research at Aviva
Cabinet of Natural History
Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700
Wolfson College Science Society
Designing Emotionally Intelligent Social Robots for Applications Involving Children
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Darwin College Lecture Series
Bloodlines of the British
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Technologies for scalably modeling and simulating whole cells
Cabinet of Natural History
A natural history of evil
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
PechaKucha - SciSoc Edition!
Darwin College Lecture Series
Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Hunt for Exoplanets
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Advances in Breast Cancer: From Molecular Science to Patients in the Clinic
Darwin College Lecture Series
Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow
Cabinet of Natural History
Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections of Anquetil de Briancourt and family (1773–1779)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed
⚠️ ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Ripples from the dark side of the universe
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Hydrogen: Its Role in the UK Economy
Darwin College Lecture Series
Battle Blood
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black Death
Wolfson College Science Society
Causes and Consequences of Gut Microbiome Variation in Wild Birds
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future
⚠️ Last talk of term
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel
⚠️ Please note this panel is on a Monday.
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st century
Wolfson College Science Society
Developing New Genomics Technologies to Map DNA Epigenetic Modifications in Human, Parasites and Cancer
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Can genomics improve health in Africa? Experience from sickle cell disease in Tanzania
Cabinet of Natural History
Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC
Wolfson College Science Society
From bed to bench side: bringing machine learning to day-to-day clinical practice
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
On the interactions between our industrial system and the natural system
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Is Dementia Preventable?
Cabinet of Natural History
A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires
Wolfson College Science Society
Martian Deserts on Earth
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Human Cell Atlas: Mapping the human body one cell at a time
Cabinet of Natural History
'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62
Wolfson College Science Society
The Science of Compassion in Healthcare
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
DNA: Inspiring building blocks that made me a learner in perpetuity
Cabinet of Natural History
Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.
Wolfson College Science Society
Seeing What Everybody Sees but Thinking What No One has Thought
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
New Materials for a New Age
⚠️ Note that this talk is on a Wednesday
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source
⚠️ In collaboration with CUSPE and CUSISS
Cabinet of Natural History
Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Why is sleep good for you?
Cabinet of Natural History
Death, decay, rot and ashes: the 'discovery' of the corpse flower and the politics of loss in colonial botany
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Ice cores and interglacials
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Electronics on the brain
Cabinet of Natural History
Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand
Wolfson College Talks & Events
Sustainability, welfare and political change
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Wolfson College Science Society
Why can't I get rid of this belief?
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR online webinar. Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball
Wolfson College Science Society
Working in research through the COVID-19 crisis
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Studies in Natural Product Synthesis
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR online webinar. Science-led Policy: From Global Pandemics to Climate Change
Wolfson College Talks & Events
How to Breed Better Politicians
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Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR online webinar. Dieselgate: The Inside Story
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR online webinar. From Medicine to Hamburgers. Cell and tissue culture applied to sustainable production of food meat.
Wolfson College Science Society
Talk will be postponed
Wolfson College Science Society
CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Infectious diseases in Africa
⚠️ This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting
⚠️ Meeting has been cancelled
Wolfson College Science Society
CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEM
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Wolfson College Science Society
CANCELLED - Frontiers for Life in Antarctica
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SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response
⚠️ Canceled
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Electroreception: A “Sixth Sense”
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Let food be thy medicine.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things
Cabinet of Natural History
Building authority: botanical workers in the British Empire, 1770s to the 1820s
⚠️ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Science Society
The only ways is upstream — The NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urge need for systems change
⚠️ all are welcome! This event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society and the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows.
Darwin College Lecture Series
Archaeological Mysteries
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations
Cabinet of Natural History
Unicorn hunting? Ontologies and collecting in early 19th-century South Africa
⚠️ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Science Society
Electronics on the Brain
Darwin College Lecture Series
Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important?
⚠️ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
Lady Margaret Lectures
On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Like the Back of Your Hand
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Cancer: From science to benefit.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?
Cabinet of Natural History
Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain
⚠️ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Science Society
Discovering Cosmic Reionisation
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Enigmatic Premodern Book
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
What Fuels Cancer Killers!
Cabinet of Natural History
Fossils in the Fayum: biogeography and colonial palaeontology in the 1900s
Wolfson College Science Society
"Why are so many hearing aids sitting in a drawer?"
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Enigma of Emotion
Cabinet of Natural History
Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar
⚠️ Please note that this seminar is on a Friday
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Natural Language Processing for Health
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life
Wolfson College Science Society
Stepping up climate change mitigation
Darwin College Lecture Series
Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters
Cabinet of Natural History
Decolonising history of evolutionary biology: a perspective from 19th-century India
Wolfson College Science Society
Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginning
Darwin College Lecture Series
Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Regulating Innovation: Policy-Making in Reproductive Technologies
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing like the sea: the pearl fishery of Ceylon as a maritime assemblage, 1799–1925
Darwin College Lecture Series
Mysteries of Modern Physics
Cabinet of Natural History
'Home and colonial' wildlife literature around 1900
Darwin College Lecture Series
Human Origins
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.
Wolfson College Science Society
Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature
Wolfson College Science Society
The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Mathematics vs Dementia
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science
Wolfson College Science Society
Exploring underutilised plants and fungi from Colombia to boost its bioeconomy
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
An evening with Lynn Rothschild
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Is Obesity a Choice?
Cabinet of Natural History
'We the tormentors, the destroyers': death, emotions and gender in entomology
Wolfson College Science Society
Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Communicating Risk and Uncertainty
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Next Generation of Children
Cambridge Philosophical Society
How to Hunt a Submarine
Cabinet of Natural History
Hybrid or chimera? Reinterpreting the botanical exchange of William Bateson and Erwin Baur
Wolfson College Science Society
Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time
Cabinet of Natural History
It takes a village: the life and legacy of Henry Thomas Soppitt (1858–1899)
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination
Lady Margaret Lectures
Wataching Molecules in Action
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Artificial Intelligence in Opthalmology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again
Wolfson College Science Society
Chasing the bacteria in the river Cam with real-time DNA sequencing: Results of the PuntSeq study
Cabinet of Natural History
The lungs of a ship: labour, medicine and the maritime environment, 1740–1800
Wolfson College Science Society
James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the World
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Big Data Psychometrics
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?
Cabinet of Natural History
Marginalia in the 'bible' of pollen analysis
Wolfson College Science Society
Understanding flowers and their pollinators: The role of petal texture in the pollination of wild tobaccos
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
How To - An Evening with Randall Monroe
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Innovation and the Cambridge Cluster: Past, present and future.
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Chromatin and Cell Cycle in Cell Fate Decision
Wolfson College Science Society
The early origins of the Mortality Revolution: a perspective from evolutionary biology
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Volcano watching: weapons of ash eruption.
Wolfson College Science Society
An evolutionary perspective on why health inequalities exist.
Wolfson College Science Society
Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?
Wolfson College Science Society
Something ate my fossil: from anecdote to testing hypotheses
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
3D Organoid Cultures to Study Tissue Development and Diseases
Cabinet of Natural History
Men of eminence: science, photography and biography in the self-fashioning of Robert Hunt in 19th-century England
Wolfson College Science Society
How to build a flower: Transformation in plant reproductive development
Rausing Lecture
Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence
⚠️ Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Gene eating
Cabinet of Natural History
Mexican science at the crossroads of French imperialism and Maximilian's empire (1864–1867)
Wolfson College Science Society
How computerized assessment may transform measurement in mental health
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Making sense of the world of scents
Cabinet of Natural History
When is a cow not a cow?
Wolfson College Science Society
There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
“The Robot will see you now.” Has the time for surgical robots arrived?
Cabinet of Natural History
The politics of the potato in the 19th century
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
A 3D cell model for developmental biology: Using gastruloids to study early developmental events
Wolfson College Science Society
Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences
⚠️ 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED
Mordell Lectures
Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions
Cambridge Philosophical Society
200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences
⚠️ 200TH ANNIVERSARY TWO DAY MEETING - FREE ENTRY - OPEN TO ALL - NO BOOKING REQUIRED
Wolfson College Science Society
Transforming cancer care
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Single Cell Multi-Omics Technologies and Applications
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
How do we measure quality in higher education?
Wolfson College Science Society
Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Dementia and brain ageing in populations
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Statistical Physics and The Arrow of Life
Your personal list
Open Issues in Build Systems
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers
Cabinet of Natural History
Meeting nature halfway: Georg Forster, mining, and the aesthetics of artifice
Wolfson College Science Society
The Science of Musical Meaning
Darwin College Lecture Series
Perception of Visual Space
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Creating predictable gene knock-outs at scale with CRISPR/Cas9
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
How We Make a Billion Antibodies: Genetics and Epigenetics
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
How did we get here? Reconstructing the genome of our ancient vertebrate ancestor.
Cabinet of Natural History
The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Mitochondria Tansfer: a 25 Year Project
Wolfson College Science Society
Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in Colombia
Darwin College Lecture Series
Computer Vision
Cambridge University Biological Society
Foetal adaptations to adversity and effects on human behaviour
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
To What Extent is the Human Species Slowing Down?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind
Cabinet of Natural History
Building knowledge of the natural world: the historical and contemporary contributions of citizen science within the UK
Wolfson College Science Society
My part in the discovery of the black hole in Cygnus X-1
Darwin College Lecture Series
Viewing the Universe
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
From Stars to Life
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Are we on the Road to Collapse?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Cancers and the tumour microenvironment
Cambridge University Biological Society
Does seeing help you to hear better?
Cabinet of Natural History
Students, tourists and farmers: the publics of botanic gardens in the 18th century
Wolfson College Science Society
Finding the right path: How do multidomain proteins avoid misfolding, and how can women avoid the pitfalls in their scientific career paths?
Darwin College Lecture Series
Appearance and Physical Reality
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Language and Artificial Intelligence
Cambridge Philosophical Society
When algebra meets geometry
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): natural knowledge in transit between the Philippines and Europe
Cambridge University Biological Society
Wellcome’s role on global health and scientific policy challenge
Wolfson College Science Society
The power of superconductivity
Darwin College Lecture Series
Vision of Future Technology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life
⚠️ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Nuclear fusion technology
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Inflamed Depression
Cabinet of Natural History
Printing, publishing and circulating books across Joseph Banks's empire
Wolfson College Science Society
Room Temperature Single-Molecule Magnets for Quantum Computing: Serendipity or Design?
Darwin College Lecture Series
Evolution of the Eye
Lady Margaret Lectures
Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: the Shape of Things to Come
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder
Cabinet of Natural History
Advijsen, old and new: the life span of VOC natural-historical information within the Dutch East Indies
Wolfson College Science Society
The rise of machine learning and its relevance for the natural sciences
Darwin College Lecture Series
Colour and Vision
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
The Journey of Human Early Development: from Gametes to Embryos and the Germline Specification
Cambridge University Biological Society
Learning and memory: a novel insight
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters
Cabinet of Natural History
Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums
⚠️ Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm
Wolfson College Science Society
Volcanic Crystal Clocks and CO2: Transforming our Prospects for Predicting Huge Eruptions
Darwin College Lecture Series
Visions
Wolfson College Science Society
Learning from Luther: 95 theses about technology
Wolfson College Science Society
From blood to genomic variants: deciphering the genome of patients with rare disorders
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Building with DNA: From DNA Crystals to Designer Proteins and Enzymes
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Talk: The Science of Conversation
Cambridge University Biological Society
Epigenetic modifications
Cabinet of Natural History
Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Academic Internships event!
Wolfson College Science Society
From nuclear transfer to prospects for cell replacement therapy: The origins and future of pluripotency and cellular reprogramming
Cambridge University Biological Society
Early maternal-fetal interactions
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Non coding RNA and normal botany
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops
Cabinet of Natural History
Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872
Wolfson College Science Society
Future developments in healthcare – does cancer lead the way?
Sinews of Sustainable Development Distinguished Speakers Series
SYRIA IS A CATASTROPHE. NOW WHAT?
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
New, Intelligent Systems for Disease Surveillance and Diagnosis
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?
Cabinet of Natural History
Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century
Wolfson College Science Society
Unraveling the hidden microbial world of the river Cam.
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Spectacular Chemistry of Coal
Cambridge University Biological Society
Cryo-EM heats up
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Particle Physics & CERN
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set
⚠️ This lecture has been cancelled
Cabinet of Natural History
The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging
Wolfson College Science Society
In-Network Computing: Your network just got a lot smarter
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
In vivo Analysis of Gene Regulatory Network in Physiological and Pathological Conditions
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Influenza pandemics: past and future
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Energy and matter at the origin of life – and why it matters
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Lightyears ahead: How the Apollo Guidance Computer pioneered an era of reliable software
Cabinet of Natural History
Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium
Lady Margaret Lectures
Elimination of Cervical Cancer by 2050: reality or wishful thinking
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics
Cambridge University Biological Society
Synthetic biology: host-construct interactions
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Wolfson College Science Society
Anti-cancer drugs for transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
The role of early-career researchers in changing the culture of scholarly communication
Cambridge University Biological Society
The fight against malaria using proteasomes
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Drug discovery with machine learning: Towards a new way of thinking about molecules
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Hello World: How to be human in the age of the machine
Cambridge University Biological Society
Nuclear receptors and atherosclerosis
Cabinet of Natural History
Putting the pieces together: Canadian ginseng and botanical expertise in the French Regency
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
CRISPR based gene drive approaches for population control of malaria mosquitoes
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story
Cabinet of Natural History
The long-lost Paston Collection
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
AI-driven Automated Image Analysis of Biological Data
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Can we slow ageing? Lessons from an EPIC cohort
Your personal list
Simulation for Intelligent Systems
⚠️ Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Using Human Studies in Health Research
Centre for Research in Contemporary Problems
"Rare elements, untraceable toxins": Where is today's Russian foreign policy?
⚠️ A wine reception will follow the lecture
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: Journey to the Clinic
Wolfson College Science Society
Relativity, Quantum Theory and Cryptography
Wolfson College Science Society
Race and gender in the scientific institution: Basic history and analysis.
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Targeted sequencing for in-depth characterisation of the disease phenotypes
University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI)
The Last Animals - screening and discussion around illegal ivory trade
Cabinet of Natural History
Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869
Rausing Lecture
Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa
⚠️ Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Network analysis of large-scale human neuroimaging data
Cabinet of Natural History
Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)
Wolfson College Science Society
The Future of Solar Cells: Can solar eliminate fossil fuel use in the next 30 years
Mordell Lectures
Cohomology of the moduli space of curves
Cambridge University Biological Society
Understanding Dementia - Master of St John's College
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Will Skynet win? Five ways computers write software better than you.
Cabinet of Natural History
Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade
Wolfson College Science Society
The genetics of depression
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency?
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Organic Bio-Electronic systems: from tissue engineering to drug discovery
Innovation Forum
Machine Learning in Healthcare
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Modelling Complex Behaviours in Rodents
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory
⚠️ Note: This is a special out-of-term session. Note unusual time (Monday instead of Thursday)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING
⚠️ ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Miniguts: A System to Understand Intestinal Pathologies
Innovation Forum
Innovative Energy Models for a Sustainable Future
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Metamaterials and the Science of Invisibility
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Microsoft: Quantum Computing
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement
Cambridge Philosophical Society
New micro-machines, new materials
Cabinet of Natural History
The Ambonese Rumphius and his inter-island information networks
⚠️ CANCELLED
Wolfson College Science Society
Does aspirin prevent cancer and vascular disease? 40 years of data and controversy
Darwin College Lecture Series
Animal Migration
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Beginning of Our Universe and what we don't know about Physics
Cambridge University Biological Society
Antibodies Vs Alzheimer's
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Dive into the Lives of Flies and Ants
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Knotty Maths of Medicine
Cambridge University Biological Society
BioSoc AGM
Cabinet of Natural History
A cabinet of natural history: the long-lost Paston collection
⚠️ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
Migration in Science
Keynes Fund
Keynes seminar: "Shadow Banking and the Four Pillars of Traditional Financial Intermediation" - joint with Emmanuel Farhi
⚠️ Please register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/yYlnDQqVgBozA1L32
Keynes Fund
Keynes lecture: "Morality and the Market"
⚠️ Please register your interest here: https://goo.gl/forms/oW2uAF8lR1sLBQUE3
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
Sources of Variability in Language Activation and Control in Spanish/English bilinguals and L2 learners
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship
Cabinet of Natural History
How to rediscover a medical secret in eighteenth-century France: the lost recipe of the Chevalier de Guiller's powder febrifuge
⚠️ CANCELLED
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Partition of India and Migration
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Magnetic Resonance on Two Scales for Research into Cell Cycle and Stroke
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Synthesising Molecular Function: Shape Matters
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Epigenetics - Why DNA Is Not Your Destiny
Cabinet of Natural History
Physico-chemical biology in practice, 1920s–1930s
Darwin College Lecture Series
Disease Migration
Cambridge University Biological Society
Structurally unravelling ATP synthase
Cambridge Linguistics Forum
The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic language: Towards a comprehensive radical contextualist account
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Paracelsus' Chickens - Strange Tales from the History of Chemistry
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system
Cabinet of Natural History
Trees as keys, ladders, maps: a revisionist history of early systematic trees
Darwin College Lecture Series
Refugees and Migration
Just on the Edge
How to Design a 21st Century Economy - with Kate Raworth
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Intravital Imaging – Applications and Image Analysis/ Information session on Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowships
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft
⚠️ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Particulars of Particulates: Granular Research on Dunes and Avalanches
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Enhancing the Brain and Wellbeing in Health and Disease
Cabinet of Natural History
Joseph Banks: science, culture and the remaking of the Indo-Pacific world
Cambridge University Biological Society
AI – More than just computers
Wolfson College Science Society
Studying life one cell at a time: single-cell RNA sequencing technology and its applications
Darwin College Lecture Series
Art and Migration
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics
Cambridge University Biological Society
Lessons from a plant virus
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive
Cabinet of Natural History
The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1846–63
Darwin College Lecture Series
Immigration and Freedom
Cambridge University Biological Society
A Sleepy Start
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Using NanoBiT® Technology to Study Protein-Protein Interactions in Living Cells
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
It's Not All About The Science
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Building World Class Life Science Businesses – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Cambridge University Biological Society
Herbal Science
Cabinet of Natural History
Blood will tell? Constructions of the 'vampire problem' in the eighteenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Black and British Migration
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Translation, Partnership and Impact (lunchtime seminar)
Cambridge University Biological Society
Finding medicine where you least expect it
Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)
Organic Electronics & Science in Industry
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Mindfulness Training: Effects on Psychological Distress and Immune Cell Activation Patterns
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Open Data and the Future of Science
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
How Democracy Ends: Thinking the Unthinkable
Cambridge University Biological Society
Energy and matter at the origin of life
Cabinet of Natural History
A silent servant of natural knowledge: the herbarium of 'The Flying Monk' Brother Cyprian
Magdalene Festival of Change
Change as theme, change as form
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Providing Science Advice to the Government
Cambridge University Biological Society
Hunting Monsters
Magdalene Festival of Change
Adaptation and Change
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity
Cabinet of Natural History
From natural histories to man-made futures: the origins and ends of R.A. Fisher's Darwinism
Cambridge University Biological Society
A map in the mind
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Biomaterials for tissue engineering
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Living in the Cold
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Will the Antarctic Go Green Again? Lessons from its Fossil History
Cabinet of Natural History
Iron holds the whale
Wolfson College Science Society
Diamond for quantum technologies
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Bonfires with a Bang. Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture
Magdalene Festival of Change
Extinction: a natural change?
Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
Winton Symposium on Energy Storage and Distribution
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Exponents of Change: From Artificial Intellegence to Web Science
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Newton's Finger
⚠️ Location changed (to CMS) | Time 7.45 pm
Cambridge University Biological Society
BioSoc Internship Event
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine
Cabinet of Natural History
What's in a name? Negotiations of credibility and authority in the naming of the giant otter shrew (Potamogale velox)
Wolfson College Science Society
The ins and outs of mitochondrial pharmacology
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Protein misfolding and aggregation, from test tube to disease
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Pedagogical and Real Science - the Physics Case
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD Information Evening
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Scientific Challenges of Fusion Power
Cambridge University Biological Society
Of elephants and men
Cabinet of Natural History
Experimental reconstruction of the bronze life-cast lizard of the Renaissance
Magdalene Festival of Change
Collections and Legacies in a time of change
Cambridge University Biological Society
Science and the world
Wolfson College Science Society
Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life
Magdalene Festival of Change
Changing Views on Climate Change
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Bugs, Bites and Parasites
Cambridge Philosophical Society
On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
How to Share Research Data + Tour of CERN with Higgs Boson Physicist
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Perovskite Solar Cells - New Opportunities and Challenges
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The DNA Revolution Has Arrived in the Behavioural Sciences
Cabinet of Natural History
'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850
Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks
The Productivity Paradox: are we too busy to get anything done?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Origin of the Laws of Nature
Cambridge University Biological Society
Stories about life
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life
Cabinet of Natural History
On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Developing ways to image single proteins in living cells
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.
⚠️ Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book.
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Comparative genomics to understand the roots of antibiotic resistance in bacteria: find ways to address it
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Mutational processes in the human genome
Wolfson College Science Society
Are Animals Musical?
Wolfson College Science Society
Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia.
Mordell Lectures
Complex dynamics and elliptic curves
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Epigenomics: When high-throughput sequencing met epigenetics
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks
Cabinet of Natural History
Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask
Wolfson College Science Society
Adhesion Strength Diversity in Brain Tumours
Wolfson College Science Society
Do we need to be concerned about the rise of e-cigarettes?
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
The birth of a memory in wakefulness and sleep
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Debate: "This house believes that Artificial Intelligence/Robotics will make us happy"
Cabinet of Natural History
Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)
Wolfson College Science Society
The metalsmith of the future
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future Electronics
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED Story
Cabinet of Natural History
Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4
Rausing Lecture
The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?
⚠️ Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Next Generation Gravimetric Biosensing Using FBARs
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.
Cabinet of Natural History
Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly
Cabinet of Natural History
When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Sheep models in neuroscience research: Opportunities and challenges
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Meet the Authors
Capitalism on the Edge
Capitalism on the Edge - What can women do to change how Capitalism works?
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Transcriptional response to environment in plants: how to deal with variability and redundancy
MMP public and schools' events
'Maths vs Disease'
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Gaia's first data release: the galactic census begins (Cambridge Science Festival 2017)
Cambridge Philosophical Society
New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING
⚠️ ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Single Cell Nucleic Acid Techniques
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Towards General Artificial Intelligence
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Can Future Energy Needs be met Sustainably?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Environmental diversity of Architecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Reading colonial photography: the publication and reception of A Phrenologist Amongst the Todas (1873)
Wolfson College Science Society
How can we encourage kindness? A perspective from evolutionary biology
Darwin College Lecture Series
Reporting from Extreme Environments
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Time, space and disorder in the expanding protein universe
Cambridge University Biological Society
Enzyme Engineering
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
On the non-computability of conscious thinking
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour
Cabinet of Natural History
James Cuninghame – 'a learned and most industrious promoter of natural philosophy'
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Ageing
Cambridge University Biological Society
Plant cytoskeletons
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability
⚠️ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The path to delivering nuclear fusion power
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacology
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history and the antiquarian
Wolfson College Science Society
Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia. (POSTPONED)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Politics
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Organoids - making organs in a dish
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Towards earlier diagnosis for cancer of the oesophagus
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history or psychology? Reading expressions and being read in Darwin's science of interdependence
Wolfson College Science Society
Bacterial control of their viral parasites through altruistic suicide
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extremes of the Universe
Cambridge University Biological Society
Cancer Research
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One
Cabinet of Natural History
Pathology and preparations at the Great Windmill Street School
Wolfson College Science Society
Can mobile phones help people quit smoking?
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Rowing
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Science Behind Mental Health
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Modelling the human brain: Psychometric and neurodevelopmental perspectives
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Why scientists should also be revolutionaries
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Black Holes at Work
Cabinet of Natural History
The Endeavour journal and the natural historical working practices of Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander, 1768–1771
Wolfson College Science Society
Optofluidic Tools to Study Antibiotic Resistance
Darwin College Lecture Series
Dealing with Extremism
Cambridge University Biological Society
Ieso - digital health
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices
Cabinet of Natural History
Preparing for doomsday: vulnerability and the contemporary history of genebanking, 1970–2008
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Events and How to Live with Them
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Flow Cytometry: from immunodiagnostics to chemical biology
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Science of Climate Change
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Project Malmo: turning Minecraft into a testbed for the future of AI
Cambridge University Biological Society
Symposium: Nanomedicine
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics
Cabinet of Natural History
Piety, diligence and learning: knowledge of American naturalia in Abraham Hill's commonplace books
Darwin College Lecture Series
Extreme Weather
Cambridge University Biological Society
Politics and Biology
Capitalism on the Edge
From Speculative to Sustainable Finance: Can Markets do Good?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation
Wolfson College Science Society
The origin of altruism: Philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives
Slavonic Studies
Polish Political Thought in the Twentieth Century and Today
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Developing tools to map the brain at synaptic resolution
Wolfson College Science Society
The art of computing with parallel universes: Quantum computing explained
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research
Capitalism on the Edge
Capitalism and Inequality: Brexit versus really taking back control
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair
Murray Edwards College
Closing the Political Ambition Gap
Cabinet of Natural History
Ethnographic collecting and the despotism of Joseph Banks
Wolfson College Science Society
Computational Interfacial Chemistry: What do we do ?
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
An overview of molecular imaging: from macroscopic to microscopic level
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SCISOC TALK - 103 years of Crystallography: what has it taught us and where will lead us?
Cambridge University Biological Society
Symposium: Microbiology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Climate change and local wildlife
Cabinet of Natural History
The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer
Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme
'Body politics: the dilemmas of regulating new technologies' - policy roundtable and lecture
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space
Cambridge University Biological Society
Viral assembly
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Big Data in Biology: Challenges and Opportunities for Healthcare and Research
Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group
Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing
Cabinet of Natural History
Conrad Gessner, the Zurich Lectorium, and the study of physics and medicine in the early modern world
Cambridge University Biological Society
Beyond the autopsy: Pathology saving lives in bowel cancer
Wolfson College Science Society
Sustainability of Energy and Material Demand: Reducing the Demand for Steel
⚠️ Meetings begin at 5.45pm with drinks; the talk follows at 6.00pm
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Translating research: commercialisation of ideas and products from University laboratories by life scientists
Lady Margaret Lectures
Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SCISOC TALK - Opossums, Catastrophes, and Homeostasis
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
An Overview of Blockchain Security
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Molecular medicines for the lysosome
Cabinet of Natural History
Learning to know: the educations of Richard Hakluyt and Thomas Harriot
Cambridge University Biological Society
ATP-sensitive K channels and Neonatal Diabetes - from Molecule to New Therapy and Beyond
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SCISOC TALK: ATP-sensitive potassium channels and neonatal diabetes – from molecule to new therapy and beyond.
Wolfson College Science Society
Skipping between Portals: neutron analysis of membrane protein biogenesis
Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
Solar Energies
Capitalism on the Edge
Can Capitalism be Ethical?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SCISOC TALK - Black holes and revelations
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
On the road to traction - lessons learned in the startup world
⚠️ Room changed
Cambridge University Biological Society
Symposium: Neurobiology
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
What shapes the human immune system?
Cabinet of Natural History
After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling natures, 1787–1810
Cambridge University Biological Society
Summer Internships Event
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Inner and outer wellbeing: A double perspective on the processing of thoughts and environment
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SCISOC TALK - The Black dog: why don't we care?
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Impact of Infection on Human Genetic and Cultural Evolution
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture
Cambridge University Biological Society
Sciencing the Sh*t out of Ape Conservation
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SCISOC TALK - The Roadmap to Applications of Graphene, Layered Materials and Hybrid systems
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
OK Computer - teaching machines to write music
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Napoleonic Wars: collecting at the East India Company c. 1798–1820
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD event
Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks
Eleventh William Pitt Seminar: A Higher Purpose: the role of universities in C21st Britain
⚠️ To register, or for further information, please contact corporate@pem.cam.ac.uk
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
When Antarctica was green: fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Securing computers from highly skilled attackers
Cambridge University Biological Society
Title to be confirmed
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Packing dominoes and other shapes
Cabinet of Natural History
'Why do entomologists want a weekly newspaper?': periodicals and the practice of nineteenth-century natural history
Cambridge University Biological Society
Human Curiosities of the Freak Show Era
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Whipple Museum of the History of Science - Private tour - FULLY BOOKED
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
The importance of Bioinformatics in studying a wide range of diseases
Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance
LECTURE AND HACKATHON: SPEAKER BALAJI SRINIVASAN, 21.co | HOW BITCOIN ENABLES A MACHINE-PAYABLE WEB
⚠️ Places are limited, please register and RSVP to n.robinson@jbs.cam.ac.uk
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKED
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Zebrafish as a model to understand development and disease
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Using Brain Imaging to Evaluate Nutritional Intervention Strategies in Resource Poor Settings
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
CRISPR/Cas9 – the good, the bad and the ugly!
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Sustainable Engineering and Design for the Built Environment
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED
Wolfson College Science Society
Musilanguage in the Cradle
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Cancer: Finding New Targets and Novel Therapies
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Landing on a Comet
Wolfson College Science Society
Corporate Psychopaths at Work and in Society
Wolfson College Science Society
Organismal design and causation in social evolution
Wolfson College Science Society
How Prediction Errors and Schemas Shape our Memories.
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Resource Sharing, Organization, and Databases
Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme
Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures
⚠️ Please register your interest at: reprosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Cabinet of Natural History
The anatomy of touch: nature, knowledge and technologies of touch in the Renaissance
Wolfson College Science Society
Behavioural flexibility and problem solving in an invasive bird
Wolfson College Science Society
The Psychophysiology of the Vasovagal (Fainting) Response: Mechanisms and Interventions
Mordell Lectures
Why Mathematical Proof?
Rausing Lecture
Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age
⚠️ Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II - These are a few of my favorite Things: Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings.
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Probing the Polar Oceans
Cabinet of Natural History
Antiquities, past, and present: the Tradescant Collection and its rarities
Wolfson College Science Society
The Invention of Consciousness
Capitalism on the Edge
Capitalism on the Edge - Capitalism on Stage
ESRC Doctoral Training Centre
The Emerging Crimmigration Control System
Cabinet of Natural History
Georg Joseph Kamel (1661–1706): a Jesuit pharmacist in Manila at the borderlines of erudition and empiricism
Wolfson College Science Society
Complex Analysis — Simplified!
Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series
Tagliaferri Lecture - Geography, Globalisation and Governance: The UK Regional (and National) Economic Problem
Cabinet of Natural History
Intelligible design: the origin and visualization of species
Wolfson College Science Society
Checking out NHS Health Checks
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Open Data and Reproducibility
Capitalism on the Edge
Capitalism and human welfare in the hi-tech/hi-touch world
Technology and Democracy Events
"Social media and political turbulence"
Wolfson College Science Society
Crop Science and Food security: the productivity, waste and distribution 'trilemma'
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Policy considerations for the continual advancement of space activity in the XXI century
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Mind the Gap: Nanotechnology for Molecular Sensing and Nanomedicine
Slavonic Studies
Places of Amnesia: The Inside and the Outside. Can the Human Body be a Place of Amnesia?
⚠️ Free admission
Slavonic Studies
Places of Amnesia: Unintentional Revelations. Rescuing the Past, Obliquely.
⚠️ Free admission
University of Cambridge - Politecnico di Torino
Biology and bioengineering tools in the treatment of H2020 age-related diseases
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Book Event: Meet the Authors
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry
⚠️ Event is now fully booked
MMP public and schools' events
Hands-On Maths Fair
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Geneses. How frequently does life emerge?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Churchill's Bomb
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease
Cabinet of Natural History
The physician's Stammbuch: humanist cultures of medical networking
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Game Theory of Conflict
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Sequencing Ebola virus in an insect filled tent; how real-time next generation sequencing aided the epidemic response.
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Mind the gap: Science broadcasting and public engagement
Lady Margaret Lectures
Democracy and its Discontents
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SciSoc Talk: Dr Philipp Holliger
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Inside the beast: GHC’s intermediate lambda language
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating indigenous knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Games Animals Play
Mackenzie-Stuart Lectures
Investment Arbitration and EU Law
⚠️ There is no charge to attend but please register via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mackenzie-stuart-lecture-2016-tickets-19184723023
Wolfson College Science Society
Beyond the Nuclear Family: An Evolutionary Perspective on Family and Fertility
Capitalism on the Edge
CAPITALISM ON THE EDGE - Inequality
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SciSoc Talk: Professor Steve Jones - "Nature, Nurture, or Nietzsche, what genetics can (and cannot) tell us about oursleves"
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease
Cabinet of Natural History
Reviving the Royal Society in the early eighteenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Games for the Brain
Cambridge University Biological Society
Protein Folding Homeostasis
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Analysing the transcriptome of cells: computational challenges and applications of single cell RNA-sequencing
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Genetic Instability and Cancer Suppression
Cabinet of Natural History
Recontextualizing the George Brown Collection through creative ceramics
Wolfson College Science Society
Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications
Darwin College Lecture Series
"Losing the New Great Game"
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence
Cabinet of Natural History
Participating in Victorian natural history through the illustrated periodical
Darwin College Lecture Series
Games in Sports
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Science Volunteering in Africa
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Scisoc Talk: Sir David Spiegelhalter
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Depicting the Dead and Verifying the Visage Facial identification:Forensic and Archaeological Application
Cabinet of Natural History
John Ray and Francis Willughby herborising around the lighthouse in Genoa in March 1664
Wolfson College Science Society
The beauty and science of nebulae
Darwin College Lecture Series
Wittgenstein's Games
Capitalism on the Edge
Capitalism on the Edge - with Frances O'Grady - Are trade unions essential for reducing income inequality?
Lady Margaret Lectures
Cancer by the Numbers
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SciSoc Talk: Dame Julia Slingo
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs
Cabinet of Natural History
Invisible gardeners? The role of Scottish botanic gardeners in knowledge creation and exchange in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century
Wolfson College Science Society
Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Game of Crime and Punishment
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Ensuring data are Understood
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SciSoc Talk: Dame Athene Donald - "Physics of the Everyday"
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Challenge and Excitement of Discovering New Medicines
Cabinet of Natural History
'Improvement': British colonial settlement and the environment
Wolfson College Science Society
Optimizing endurance performance is an intellectual exercise
Darwin College Lecture Series
Personal Principles and the Political Game
MMP public and schools' events
'Mathematical Modelling': Maths and paper folding workshop for Year 8 students
Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme
'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'
⚠️ This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity.
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Technology Development
⚠️ The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation entitled "In the African Bush: Researching the Rhino Poaching Crisis in South Africa" given by Katrin Pfeil
Wolfson College Science Society
The role of perceived injustice in chronic pain: Outcomes, mechanisms, and opportunities for intervention
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding
⚠️ Free & open to the public
Cambridge University Biological Society
TBC
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Reverse Thinking: First Image Analysis then Immunostaining Protocol
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Earthquake Science and Vulnerability in Asia
⚠️ This lecture will be dedicated to the memory of Professor Sir Sam Edwards, Past President of CSAR who died earlier this year
Cabinet of Natural History
From 'clap-trap and flummery' to 'scope and methods' – the Royal Geographical Society's lantern-slide lectures, c.1886–1924
Wolfson College Science Society
Tales from the crypt: How science harvests death for humanity's benefit
The Blackett Society
Intellectual Property: Not a Banana. IP for Scientists and Engineers
⚠️ Open to all, free of charge.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Revolutions that made the earth
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
From Kyoto to Paris: A historical perspective on international climate change negotiations
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
More is different: Many-body physics with ultracold atoms.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects
Cabinet of Natural History
Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s
Wolfson College Science Society
Human embryos: a visual history
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Astronomy lecture: Gaia - the first 3D census of the Milky Way
⚠️ Free & open to the public. Suitable for A-level students.
Cambridge University Biological Society
TBC
Biophysical Seminars
Microtechnologies for biomolecular complex analysis and cryo-microscopy
⚠️ All welcome
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Scisoc talk: Dr David Bainbridge - 'Curvology: the origins and power of female body shape"
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably
⚠️ This lecture will be preceded by the CSAR AGM
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
How to communicate your research to policymakers
Cabinet of Natural History
The Norman Conquest of the materia medica? Expanding pharmaceutical horizons in 11th-century England
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
An introduction to science in policymaking: who, what, why and how?
Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium
Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language
⚠️ Registration is required for this event
Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar
Psychiatry – Medicine’s Secret Weapon
Cambridge University Biological Society
The evolutionary struggles of giant land animals against gravity
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage
⚠️ A COMPLIMENTARY DRINKS RECEPTION TO FOLLOW ON AFTER THE LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FOYER TO THE LECTURE THEATRE FOR ALL ATTENDEES
Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture
Death Penalty, Drones and Torture
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Scisoc talk: Dr Ewan Birney - 'Big Data for Basic Research'
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The human brain - a lesson in green technology
Cabinet of Natural History
Systems, synonyms and strife – the making of European entomology around 1800
jjn1's list
Digital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist, Practice-oriented Institutional Approach
Wolfson College Science Society
Thoughts on the current crisis in the NHS and how to resolve it: getting from lose/lose to win/win.
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Fireworks & Waterworks - Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture
Cambridge University Biological Society
Thinking without a brain: Auxin and the self-organisation of plant form
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Scisoc talk: Dr Hugh Lewis - 'Space Debris, the UN and the IADC'
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Maths and the Arts
⚠️ The Lecture will be preceded by a five minute presentation entitled "Balancing food production and the environment in Mexico" by CSAR Award Student David Williams.
Cabinet of Natural History
Order and object: constructing collections in late 18th-century France
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Rethinking power: new conceptions of power for a better world
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Future Energy Needs and Engineering Reality
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics
⚠️ http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/
Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics
Colloquia on the European Crises: Banks' Stress Tests in the US: Lessons for Europe
⚠️ Please register on Cambridge-INET website
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
GMOs: beginnings, advancements, new opportunities and public perceptions.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Summer Internships Event
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond
⚠️ http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/
jjn1's list
Postcapitalism
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SciSoc Talk: Professor Jeremy Baumberg: Where is my nanobot?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment
⚠️ http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
In all ways that matter, women count!
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
From untied to united: the power of one
Wolfson College Science Society
Unravelling the Innovation Mystery
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Future of Medicine
Cambridge University Biological Society
Pattern formation and positional information in development
Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics
"The Uses, Abuses, and Non-uses of Quantitative Models in the British Railway Mania"
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Dressed to kill: what do infectious disease agents have in their wardrobes?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration
⚠️ Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"
Cabinet of Natural History
Recovery after attack: 1960s radioecology and shifting conceptions of humans as agents of ecosystem change
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably
Wolfson College Science Society
When to care for and when to kill another female's offspring
Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks
Being Different: what difference does diversity make?
⚠️ To register please contact corporate@pem.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University Biological Society
Freshers’ Squash
Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments
New Photovoltaic and Plasmonic Avenues to Amplify Light Matter Interaction at the Atomic Scale
⚠️ Refreshments will be served between 3pm and 4pm in the lecture theatre foyer following the lecture
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD Event
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Quantum Contextuality: from paradox to computational resource
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology
⚠️ Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cabinet of Natural History
Is it one's cup of tea? Early-modern experimentation on tea as materia medica
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Zoology - FULL
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks
Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: What are the Prospects for Automatic Theorem Proving?
Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
Winton Symposium on Green Computing
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Remote control of cell signalling using chemogenetics
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour. - Fully Booked!
⚠️ This event is now fully booked
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Gallium Nitride LEDs: How can they save energy, purify water, improve our health (and be made here in the UK)
⚠️ This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation by Olivia Macleod on her research
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Exome Sequencing Methods
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Saga of the Miles M-52 Britain’s Wartime Supersonic Project
⚠️ Please note this lecture is different to that previously advertised. It will be preceeded by a short presentation by Vaibhav Bhardwaj on his research "Algae-bacteria symbiosis: Using molecular biology to improve algae cultivation for biofuels"
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Effective policy to address the UK's STEM gap: education, immigration and women in science
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins
⚠️ The Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”
Mordell Lectures
The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem
Wolfson College Science Society
Building a Start-up from Cam’lab Research
Rausing Lecture
Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview
⚠️ Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: presence, practice and pachyderms in Victorian education
Wolfson College Science Society
Toward cleaner vehicle emissions: catalyst technologies for today and tomorrow
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks
Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture: Toward Causal Machine Learning
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Evolution of Dragonfly Wings
⚠️ The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation by Jan Mertens on new materials
Cabinet of Natural History
The hand of the naturalist: Charles Plumier, images and overseas natural history in late-17th-century France
Wolfson College Science Society
Analysing Daily Behaviours with Large-Scale Smartphone Data.
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
How much does it cost to save nature?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
New Developments in Machine Intelligence
⚠️ This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins
Cabinet of Natural History
Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Tortoiseshell Cat in the Junk Yard
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
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
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The CSAR debate:"This House believes that the Government should fund discovery of new antibiotics and control their distribution and use"
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks
Big Dream Documentary Screening and Q&A Panel
Cambridge Rare Disease Network
CRDN Launch Event: Parent Entrepreneurship
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Homeopathy – science fact or science fiction? (at Cambridge Science Festival)
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) – from data acquisition to results interpretation
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Meet the Authors
⚠️ Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival
Wolfson College Science Society
Mapping the rapid changes in mammalian genome regulation
MMP public and schools' events
Some essential links between maths and the arts - Cambridge Science Festival (FULLY BOOKED)
Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series
Greece and the eurozone crisis- one crisis, two narratives
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Prostacyclin and nitric oxide in vascular biology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material
Cabinet of Natural History
Deadwood taxonomies: trees of nature before evolution
Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)
Trinity College Science Society Symposium 2015
Darwin College Lecture Series
Technology Development
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
International Development - Where is the Evidence?
Cambridge University Biological Society
Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperones
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Peptides as drugs and tools to study biological systems
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Grand challenges facing scientists and Nature
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Flying 300 underwater Planes and other Oil Industry Innovations
Cabinet of Natural History
Jewellers, travellers and the classification of gems, c. 1600–1800
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
"To Light a Candle"
Wolfson College Science Society
From Bench to Books: writing science books for children
Darwin College Lecture Series
Economic Development
Cambridge University Biological Society
Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase
Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series
Measuring housing prices over the long run (correctly) – an index for Dublin 1900-2015
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Defects in materials and how to describe them
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited
Cabinet of Natural History
Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature
Trinity Mathematical Society
Trinity Mathematical Society Symposium 2015
⚠️ The Symposium is Open to All
Wolfson College Science Society
Life after death: social evolution in a grave
Darwin College Lecture Series
Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Towards the Evolutionary Genesis Engine
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Some of my Accidents
Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College
Iraq after ISIS
Cabinet of Natural History
Verbal picturing and aesthetic experience in natural history, 1650–1720
Darwin College Lecture Series
Development of Climate Science
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Computation, Technology and the New Era of STEM
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health
Cabinet of Natural History
Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)
Darwin College Lecture Series
Developing a Sense of Self
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The antibody revolution
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One
Cabinet of Natural History
'O! How glad I am I have no pendulum': in pursuit of the figure of the earth
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Development of Galaxies
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks
Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture - Laws of Programming with Concurrency
⚠️ This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending
Cambridge University Biological Society
DNA Sequencing and Other Applications of Engineered Protein Nanopores
⚠️ NB Location and time have changed
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Protein folding, misfolding, disease and cancer
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motors
Cabinet of Natural History
Bringing ancient grains to life: Tutankhamen, Egyptomania and modernist enchantment in interwar Britain
Wolfson College Science Society
Structure of the DNA Replication Machinery
Darwin College Lecture Series
Development of an Athlete
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
UK Government Policy on Science and Technology Post-2015
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
International Legal Constraints on Energy Transitions
⚠️ CUEN Evening Seminars are open to everyone, free of charge, without any registration.
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Future of Education: Evidence and Technology in the Classrom
Cambridge University Biological Society
HPV vaccines – are they doing their job?
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
Unleashing the power of genomics in the clinic
⚠️ A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Copper with Light – the Prospects for Photonic-Enabled-Electronics
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Innovation in Practise
Cabinet of Natural History
Cabinets, eclipses and lightning rods: the role of curiosity in the perception of science in 18th-century Russia
Darwin College Lecture Series
Reprogramming Animal Development
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Prospects and Obstacles affecting Cell Replacement in Humans
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Apptimistic research: Studying well-being and behaviour change using sensor data from mobile phone apps
Cambridge University Biological Society
Title to be confirmed
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Stem Cells
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Sino-Russian Gas and Oil Cooperation : The Reality and Its Impacts towards Regional and Global Trading
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Building a Climate System Laboratory: Modelling the climate system.
Cabinet of Natural History
Jane Squire's early modern adventures: 'I see not why I should confine myself to needles, cards, and dice'
Wolfson College Science Society
How bees find the right flowers
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD Information Event
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Creating transparent intact animal organs for high-resolution 3D deep-tissue imaging
Cambridge-INET Institute, Faculty of Economics
Public Talk: "Managing Global Finance as a System"
⚠️ To register for this talk please email inet@econ.cam.ac.uk
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Reducing Genetic Abnormalities in Embryos
Cambridge Philosophical Society
MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare
Cabinet of Natural History
Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
CUEN evening seminar: "Lossless Energy Transport: The Magic of Superconductors"
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Could computers understand their own programs?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Working for a Healthier Tomorrow
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Cambridge students starting startups
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks
Microsoft Distinguished Research Lecture Series - Technological Innovation in Healthcare
⚠️ This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligence
Cabinet of Natural History
W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy
"Life Sciences Masterclass"
Super-resolution imaging: Getting and understanding microscopy images with more details
Cambridge University Biological Society
Breast cancer- tackling 10 diseases
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Scientific Challenges for Fusion Power
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The changing genome: signatures of mutagenesis in human cells
Cabinet of Natural History
Natural history on the move: John Ray's continental travels, 1663–1666
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
As if by Magic...... Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture
Cambridge University Biological Society
Internship Event
Lady Margaret Lectures
The Great War and the British Problem, 1914-2014
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Generating the Fuel of Life
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes.
Cabinet of Natural History
The role of instruments in exploration: the RGS and its explorers, c.1830–1900
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Festival of Ideas: From the Selfish Me to the Selfless Self
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Festival of Ideas: Young people: What is our identity?
Wolfson College Science Society
Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: Make Way for Wearables.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Active and Passive Immunization against Infectious Disease
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Computer Science and Social Mobility
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
New Nuclear in the UK
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Perception and belief in psychosis
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Festival of Ideas: The Gathering Sound
National Cancer Registration Service (Eastern Office) Monthly Seminars
What Might a Lung Cancer Screening Programme in the UK Look Like?
⚠️ This talk is open to all but please contact the organiser if you have not been to one of these talks before
Lady Margaret Lectures
How governing has become harder-- the increasing external, and self-imposed constraints on governments
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Building Brains
C.U. Cryptographic Currency Society
Bitcoin: the good, the bad, and the ugly!
Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College
Lethal Safety? Fukushima, Fear and the Nuclear Puzzle
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Learning to Remember: How should we teach history?
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Spark of Life: the story of ion channels
Cabinet of Natural History
Historical time, primitive peoples and the abyss of race: conceptions of temporality in German anthropology and folklore studies (1850s–1930s)
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
Academia & Industry: accelerating the impact of research
Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks
William Pitt seminar and dinner - Nervous Energy: will the lights stay on?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Science of Invisibility
Cambridge University Biological Society
Informal discussion on "Small and Large Challenges in Engineering the Biosphere"
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Digital Agenda for Europe: More Innovative, More Sustainable, More Inclusive?
C.U. Cryptographic Currency Society
Blockchain Technology
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Long-Term Autonomy in Everyday Environments: A New Challenge for AI and Robotics
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
How to Win a Nobel Prize: The Secret of Cell Division
Trinity Mathematical Society
Pythagoras Never Existed. You Have Been Lied to, and All School Maths is False
⚠️ Free & open to all
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe
Cabinet of Natural History
Jean André Peyssonnel and the coral island
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Are we star dust or nuclear waste? Astronomy lecture
Cambridge University Global Health Society
Privatisation of the NHS
Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series
Ultrasonic Actuation in Microfluidics for Particle Handling, Sorting and Droplet Formation
⚠️ Everyone is welcome
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
A Pint of Knowledge: Stem cells, from the lab to the clinic
⚠️ A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public.
Slavonic Film and Media Studies
FILM: Kira Muratova's ETERNAL HOMECOMING (Ukraine, 2012, in Russian with English subtitles), Screening & Discussion
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
"Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!" How Chemistry Changed the First World War
⚠️ Free & open to all
Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars
Towards a science of intelligence: Raven's reconsidered
MMP public and schools' events
Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine
Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series
Bionanoscience for Innovative Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART)
⚠️ Everyone is welcome
Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series
Mass Fabrication of Micro/Nano Dual-scale Structures and its Applications in Energy Harvesting
⚠️ Everyone is welcome
Mordell Lectures
The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre
⚠️ Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Noise in audio and electronics
Wolfson College Science Society
I spy with my MRI....
Philosophy Events
Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Acting and Thinking Together
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
Pint of Knowledge: Realistic illumination in movies and videogames
⚠️ A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public.
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in it” Using computer in the architectural design and production process
Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society seminar series
"Cool War to Cold: Perspectives of the Ukraine Crisis for Russia and the West"
⚠️ A wine reception will follow the lecture
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future? - CUEN Annual Energy Conference
⚠️ Please register: www.cuen.org.uk (coffee breaks, lunch and wine reception included)
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden
⚠️ Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.
Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing
Astrobiology: the search for life on other worlds
Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing
Why the origin of life had to be inorganic
Gut feeling: how bacteria influence our wellbeing
What is Life? A philosophical perspective
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Conditioning Demand: Older People, Thermal Comfort and Low-Carbon Housing
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Should We Engineer The Climate? The SPICE Project
⚠️ The listed speaker is not available; Dr Hunt has very kindly agreed to deliver this lecture in his place
Cabinet of Natural History
Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750–1830
Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars
Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy
⚠️ Fifth Hewish Lecture
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Geophysics and Building Sites: a diagnostic tool for Early Modern Architecture?
Cabinet of Natural History
The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning
Wolfson College Science Society
Inclusive Human Computer Interaction - from Indian farmers to Eurofighter Typhoon pilots
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Spatially unbalanced growth in the British Economy
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
The Architecture of Recovery
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Taste and Flavour
Rausing Lecture
Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa
⚠️ Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
2050: Sustainable UK?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices
⚠️ The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota
⚠️ The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Shell and Natural Gas
⚠️ This event kicks-off our Annual Conference on Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future? Sign-up for conference and poster session via our website: http://www.cuen.org.uk/
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Power and Politics in the Middle East: A Designer's Perspective
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks
Thinking for Programmers: Rising Above the Code
⚠️ This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screen Media Group Presents: Redell Olsen ‘To Quill At Film’ : A Talk on ‘Film Poems’
Cabinet of Natural History
Studied enchantment: the conjectural method in late Victorian scholarship
Slavonic Film and Media Studies
Film Screening: Director Marlen Khutsiev presents 'JULY RAIN' (Iulskii dozhd', 1966)
Slavonic Film and Media Studies
Film Screening: Director Marlen Khutsiev presents 'I AM TWENTY' (Mne 20 let, 1964)
Wolfson College Science Society
An Enlightenment tradition of characterising and caricaturing science and scientists: why words (and nerds) matter.
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Transnational memory-sites: Bi-communal representations of trauma in Polish-German border towns
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Twilight of the Scientific Age
Slavonic Film and Media Studies
FIlmmaker Marlen Khutsiev in Conversation: Not Yet Evening...
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Excluded but not Defeated: The Constructive Resilience of Bahá’ís in Iran in Light of Education Denial
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
What has become of the ‘eco-city’?
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screen Media Group Presents: Renaissance: Reclaiming Borowczyk
lc599's list
The Power and Peril of Narrative: Policy-relevant research using the British Birth cohort studies
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Tunnelling Under Cities, Advances in Research and Practice
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of radiation
Cabinet of Natural History
Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics
Cambridge University Global Health Society
Dame Barbara Stocking: Humanitarianism, health and health care
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
The Theory of Democracy and the Legacy of Juan J. Linz
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 44th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Does History Matter? A Diachronic Understanding of Urban Conflicts
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Modelling the Risks of Climate Change - Dr. Chris Hope
Cabinet of Natural History
William Courten (1642–1702) and natural history
Wolfson College Science Society
Open access publishing: a pioneer’s perspective.
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Self-Assembling Molecular Structures, Novel molecular structures and materials
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
A Pint of Knowledge: The Chemistry of Peptides: "small proteins" fighting "big diseases"
⚠️ A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Perception and belief in psychosis
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster
⚠️ Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. £10 but FULLY BOOKED!
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
New Book Evening
⚠️ In association with the Cambridge Science Festival
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Captured Thoughts: The Collaborations of an Artist and a Scientist
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?
⚠️ Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.
Wolfson College Science Society
TBC - personal genomics
Workshop in Microeconomics
Workshop in Microeconomics
⚠️ http://www.inet.econ.cam.ac.uk/events/Workshop-Microeconomics
Cambridge University Biological Society
G-quadruplex: the DNA quadruple helix
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Quantum Games with Spins Alight
Public talk: Duncan Watts
Public talk: Duncan Watts - The Myth of Common Sense: Why Everything That Seems Obvious Isn't
⚠️ If you may wish to attend please register on website as follows http://sites.google.com/site/camineteventregister/events/duncanwatts
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Electric and Hybrid Powered Aircraft – making energy go further
Cabinet of Natural History
National types: the transatlantic publication and reception of Crania Americana (1839)
Wolfson College Science Society
May the force (of gravity) be with you: general relativity, black holes and beyond
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues & Metaphor
Lady Margaret Lectures
The Nation's Hidden Art College Revealed
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Stability and Complexity in Financial Ecosystems
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screen Media Group Presents: Dr. Rod Mengham and Marc Atkins on 'The Sounding Pole Films'
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Development and Repair of Neurons
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wings
Cambridge University Biological Society
Energetic constraints on the evolution of life
Cabinet of Natural History
What counts as threatened? Population biology, objectivity and the sixth extinction
Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)
Trinity College Science Society 11th Annual Research Symposium
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues & Economic Collapse
Cambridge Café Scientifique
The peculiarities of the naked mole-rat – what can we learn from them?
⚠️ NOTE THAT EVENT IS ON THURSDAY
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
WikiData: a free knowledge base that can be read and edited by humans and machines alike
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Belief in Science & Belief in God: A Scientist’s Perspective on “New Atheism”
Cambridge University Biological Society
Sex and the Brain (in fruit flies)
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Neurons Feel the Force
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running
⚠️ A V HILL LECTURE
Trinity Mathematical Society
TMS Symposium
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Human Plague
Cambridge University Biological Society
Imaging biology in the cancer patient
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The sweet smell of E. coli division
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
“Impact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry”
⚠️ 18:15 for 19:00 start
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screen Media Group Presents: The False Archive: Unbearable and Impossible Images in Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Virgin Suicides’
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Grand Challenges and Accomplishments of Engineering Research
Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series
A research platform for Acoustic Wave Sensors
Cabinet of Natural History
Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
'Trashed' Film Screening
Wolfson College Science Society
In search of personal meaning in a file of 3.3 billion DNA letters
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues, Populations & Survival
IET Cambridge Network - Lectures
IET Prestige Lecture - Pushing back the boundaries of computer science
⚠️ All are welcome: Tea is served from 6pm
Cambridge University Biological Society
Biophysical insights into protein aggregation
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
'The True Function of Education'
⚠️ This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Protecting the planet for our children and other species
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action
Cabinet of Natural History
Philology, mythology and geology in colonial India
Soul Food
Soul Food: "A Sense of Time"
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Islam in Modernity: Overcoming Barriers Between Faiths
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Nature of Plagues
Cambridge University Biological Society
Socio-ecology and Conservation of Asian Apes
Education Technology
Reinventing Education
⚠️ NOTE 1: Offsite parking only - at Clerk Maxwell Road. Note 2: There may be opportunities to meet the speaker before noon, but after questions from the audience (till 15:30) the speaker needs to catch a plane to the US.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Why did it take medicine 3,000 years to become effective?
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screen Media Group Presents: Georges Perec's 'Scene of a Flight'
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Can Research Prevent Crime?
Cabinet of Natural History
The elephant in the room: historians and scientists working together
Wolfson College Science Society
Nanotechnology in healthcare: turning science fiction into science fact
Darwin College Lecture Series
Silicon Plagues
Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)
**EVENT POSTPONED** Cambridge's Future: Green Jobs, Green Growth
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
A Pint of Knowledge: Cell division: Better to make it than break it
⚠️ A Pint of Knowledge is a series of informal research seminars in the pub where members of the society of Spanish Researchers in the UK (SRUK) explain their research to a general audience. It takes place every 2 months and is open to the general public..
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Domain-specific languages and Xtext
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Water: Commodity or human right?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Grasses bite back! The role of silicon-based defences in the interactions between plants and herbivores
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Fluid mechanical processes during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide
⚠️ G I TAYLOR LECTURE
Cabinet of Natural History
The atom as metaphor: responses to atomism in 17th-century English literature
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues & History
Wolfson College Science Society
Title to be confirmed
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Computer-Based Maths: Stop Teaching Calculating, Start Learning Maths
Lady Margaret Lectures
Troubled by Culture: Global Reflections in a World of Change
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Exploring the History of Mars by Robot: Curiosity's Adventures in Gale Crater
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screen Media Group Presents: Night Life: Derek Jarman and the 80's New Underground Film Scene
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance
Cabinet of Natural History
Citizen Cuvier: radical appropriations of Georges Cuvier's law of correlation in Edinburgh and London, 1801–1837
Darwin College Lecture Series
Plagues & Medicine
Cambridge Café Scientifique
The Saga of Alemtuzumab in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
⚠️ Free entry, open to the public and complimentary drink included
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Synthetic Biology: New Technologies and Sustainable Solutions
Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series
DETECTION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS USING PIEZORESISTIVE MICROCANTILEVER SENSORS WITH METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
The Science of Whisky - A tasting tour of Scotland's finest
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
'Careers in Renewables' + 'Shale Gas in the UK: will it solve our energy issue?'
⚠️ Refreshments will be provided!
Wolfson College Science Society
How does cancer become an infectious disease?
Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series
Efficient Batch-microfabricated Hardware for Miniaturized Spacecraft
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Flawed Dominance of Economics: Engaging more Social Sciences in Government
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Subglacial Lake Ellsworth
Babraham Institute - Public Engagement Events
Epigenetics: Myths, Mysteries and Molecules
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Do We Really Need Pandas? The impact of human intervention on natural selection
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
'Second coming: the rebirth of nuclear power in the UK' - CUEN Seminar Series
⚠️ Refreshments will be provided!
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Moving to low carbon energy provision – do we have a choice?
Cambridge University Biological Society
Fat fish are a forest product
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Healing the body with new materials
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
CUEN Documentary Screening: 'Fracking: The New Energy Rush'
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing
⚠️ Note new start time of 6.00pm
Cabinet of Natural History
Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century
Wolfson College Science Society
Information storage in DNA
Cambridge University Biological Society
Internship Information Event
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Man’s Station in the Universe: A Scientist’s Spiritual Journey
Cambridge University Biological Society
Are you your brain?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Life and the Earth: Interlocking Histories
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Notes on Notes: The musicology of performance
⚠️ The CSAR AGM will precede this lecture at 19:15
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: But The Spell Remains: the role of emotions in public policy
Cabinet of Natural History
'Dangerous and improper material': models, preparations and the relationship between object and user in 18th- and 19th-century anatomical collections
Soul Food
Soul Food: "The Light Within"
MMP public and schools' events
Cambridge Maths Circle
ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society
Watching Single Molecules
Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series
Optical Microsystems and Applications in Biosensing and Thermal Imaging
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Digital Connectivity in Cities: The Role of Policy
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Personalised Recommendations in E-Commerce
Cambridge University Biological Society
Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute
⚠️ HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Headache of Hypoxia
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screen Media Group presents: Sarah Wood's 'Forgetting Forgetting', a talk on found footage
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?
⚠️ Note new start time of 6.00pm
Cabinet of Natural History
Willi Hennig and philosophy
Wolfson College Science Society
The Dark Matter Mystery and the Large Hadron Collider
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
The Science of Fireworks and Explosives – Spectacular Chemistry Demonstration Lecture
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
Pint of knowledge. Documentary: MARAGATERIA: A COR(E)OGRAPHY
⚠️ A Pint of Knowledge are informal research seminars in the pub, where members of Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK) explained their research interest to the general public. Celebrated every 2 months and opened to everybody.
Fitzwilliam College Foundation Lectures
'Double standards: perspectives on life in public companies and public office'.
⚠️ Ken Olisa has spent the last five years in what he calls "parallel universes" at the heart of two of our nation’s cherished institutions – the City and the House of Commons.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Why is Chemistry Difficult?
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD Information Event
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The CSAR Debate
Cambridge University Biological Society
How can mice using iPads help cure Alzheimer's disease?
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Open Innovation – Introducing Shell Ideas360
Cabinet of Natural History
Hidden in plain sight: early ecology as visual science
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
The Final Frontier: Reflections on the Life of the Spirit
⚠️ Part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Frontiers in a Changing World: Global Challenges, Inner Transformations
⚠️ Part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Cambridge University Biological Society
Multiprotein assemblies, structural biology and drug discovery: Gaining selectivity through allostery
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Are Normal People Sane?
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screen Media Group presents: Prof. Zyg Baranski on Roberto Rossellini's 'Un Pilota Ritorno'
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positive
⚠️ The ‘Festival of Ideas’ Lecture
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns
⚠️ Note new start time of 6.00pm
Soul Food
Soul Food, October 2013: "Visions of Oneness"
⚠️ Part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Wolfson College Science Society
The Origin and Evolution of the Universe
Cambridge University Biological Society
Some challenges in modelling influenza
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Super-resolution Microscopy
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Applied and not-yet-applied
Cabinet of Natural History
Anthropological field work in 'mixed race' Aboriginal communities in Australia, 1940–65
Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks
William Pitt Seminar and Dinner: The Anxiety of Age
Cambridge University Biological Society
Teenagers: A Natural History
Cambridge University Biological Society
BioSoc Freshers' Squash
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
From Mars to the Multiverse
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Night Life: Derek Jarman and the 80's New Underground Film Scene
Trinity Mathematical Society
God, as you know, is a Trinity man, but is She a mathmo?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation
⚠️ LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology, from the Schrodinger Equation.
Cabinet of Natural History
The illustration and publication of Robert Morison's History of Plants (1672–99)
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Practically Making the Philosophers' Stone: Recreating Alchemical Experiments
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks
Active Pedestrian Safety: from Research to Reality
⚠️ This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending
Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
Winton Symposium on Materials Discovery
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
4th Seminar SRUK: Science Communication for Scientists
MSt in Sustainability Leadership
Chris Huhne - UK Government climate, energy and environmental policy
⚠️ No need to reserve places, but please arrive by 16.50. Doors will close once the venue's capcity has been reached.
Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars
The story of what was hidden in our genes
MMP public and schools' events
Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards
Cambridge University Bahá'í Society
Belief in Science & Belief in God: A Scientist’s Perspective on “New Atheism”
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Secrets of Antarctica
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’
⚠️ Please note that this event will take place on Wednesday
MMP public and schools' events
Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Smart Cities Smart Future - CUEN Annual Conference 2013
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Loving Theory: two talks on film and television
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Building Business in the Sunshine
Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society seminar series
"A Change of Seasons: Egypt, the ‘Arab Spring’ and the challenges ahead"
⚠️ A wine reception will follow the lecture
Wolfson College Science Society
Sonic Pi: Teaching Computer Science with Music
Wolfson College Science Society
EDSAC: The World's First Practical Electronic Digital Computer
Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars
Fair testing in Web 2.0 – where psychometricians’ and candidates’ interests meet
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
“The Impact of Impact: The future of science funding”
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Making Electricity Transmission Smarter
⚠️ Refreshments will be provided!
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination
Rausing Lecture
Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?
⚠️ Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820
Wolfson College Science Society
Planetary landscapes
Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments
Electric field induced ferromagnetic phase transition in semiconductors and metals
Cambridge Screen Media Group
‘Performance’ (presentations followed by a panel discussion)
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology
Cabinet of Natural History
Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900
OWASP (Application Security) Cambridge Chapter Events & Conferences
OWASP EU Tour 2013 - Cambridge Chapter and Anglia Ruskin University.
⚠️ Please register at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OWASP-Tour-May2013
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
SOLAR MAMAS - documentary screening
⚠️ Snacks will be provided!
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Role of Evidence in Policy
Cabinet of Natural History
The education of Francis Willughby: new philosophy and natural history in mid-17th-century Cambridge
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Energy and Life
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Filmmaker Phillip Warnell: ‘The beast with two backs: mutuality, exchange and transfiguration between animals’
Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars
Using Rasch Analysis in Neurological and Community Rehabilitation - The SARDINE Project (Secondary Analysis of Routine Data in Neurorehab Evaluations)
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Volcanology Applied to Emergencies
Cabinet of Natural History
Impressed upon the countenance: knowledge and visibility in Lavaterian physiognomy
Wolfson College Science Society
The impact of the genomic revolution on medicine and agriculture
Travel and Expeditions
Dave Cornthwaite: Say Yes More
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED
⚠️ Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Redefining Equality
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Secrets behind the Cambridge Phenomenon: Good fortune or outstanding strategy?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore?
⚠️ The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants
⚠️ The first of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
"Curing Incurable Cancer"
MMP public and schools' events
Mathematics and Smallpox
⚠️ Cambridge Science Festival free public talk
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Behavioural Economics and Public Policy
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Our Fluid Earth
⚠️ Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.
Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013
Economics for a Finite Planet
Cabinet of Natural History
The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding
⚠️ Postponed from 4 March
Cambridge University Biological Society
Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins
MMP public and schools' events
'Travelling Salesman' - film screening
Cambridge University Biological Society
A new approach to small-molecule drug development
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
How curiosity turned into Science?
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Making a difference across the globe
Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks
EWB Panel Talks Series: Engineering in Emergencies and Challenging Environments
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Computer Science and Statistics in Algorithmic Trading: A Sampler
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Low Carbon Road Freight Transport
Cabinet of Natural History
Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain
Wolfson College Science Society
Can yeast and a Robot Scientist help us design therapies for diseases like cancers and malaria?
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia
Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013
Overcoming peak water: moving to sustainability
Lady Margaret Lectures
Why "shaken but not stirred"?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
What’s special about the human brain
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Arrival, Settlement and Relationality: the Child in Film
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR Book Evening
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight and Self-Control
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
The beauty of bootstrapping and the joy of JIT
Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013
Next generation sustainability at the University of British Columbia
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
POSTPONED: Energy and Life
Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks
What is the most pressing problem facing the developing world today and what are the solutions?
⚠️ MAP TO VENUE: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5kbaDSqD2fMRFJkQWI5QnV5SnM/edit?usp=sharing
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
CARBON CAPTURE and STORAGE (CCS): its real option value and potential role in the future electricity system
⚠️ Refreshments will be provided!
Cambridge Philosophical Society
A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy
Cabinet of Natural History
Beefing up science: British Bovril, bulging biceps and nutrition science
Trinity Mathematical Society
TMS Symposium
Wolfson College Science Society
Nature v. nurture: dissecting the tumour ecosystem
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foreseeing Space Weather
IET Cambridge Network - Lectures
IET Cambridge Prestige Lecture - Raspberry Pi
⚠️ Tea is served from 6pm
Explore Islam Week 2013
Jesus in the Eyes of Four Billion – Lord ROWAN WILLIAMS and Paul Williams
Rainbow Group Seminars
Technologies for learning and wellbeing
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Pharma Industry & the Opportunity for Precision Medicine
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Ornamentation, Attraction and Sexual Behaviour
Cambridge Screen Media Group
STELARC - MEAT, METAL & CODE: THE CADAVER, THE COMATOSE & THE CHIMERA
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Graphene Future Emerging Technology
Cabinet of Natural History
Romanticism, aesthetics and violence in natural history
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Music
Cambridge University Biological Society
Nuclear reprogramming
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Unexpected Side of Entropy
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland
Cabinet of Natural History
When the archaeologists are searching for a legend: the (re-)invention of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Wolfson College Science Society
Kinect: You Are The Controller - The Inside Story!
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Scientific Method
Engineers Without Borders Panel Talks
Engineers Without Borders: Renewable Energy Solutions for the Developing World (TED-style Talk)
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
How is Haskell tackling the multicore problem?
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Space Exploration: Is Manned Space Travel Worth The Cost?
Cambridge University Biological Society
What's a brain for? A moving story
Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013
The revolution of capitalism
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Our shared destinies within the planet’s boundaries
Wolfson College Science Society
Brains, Science, and Human Nature
⚠️ Joint seminar with the Wolfson College Humanities Society
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Joint screening: Réponse de Femmes (Agnès Varda) and Quand les femmes s’en mêlent (Paule Zajdermann)
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Shift in the Balance of Economic and Financial Power: what does it really mean?
Cabinet of Natural History
'The man with the detective eye': observation in Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789)
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
FLOW the documentary - screening
⚠️ The event is FREE of charge.
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight and Fiction
Cambridge University Biological Society
Evolution of Biological Complexity
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer
⚠️ Please note that the event is on Wednesday and not the usual Tuesday!
Cambridge University Biological Society
The day within: circadian clock genes, cells and circuits
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger
Sustainable Development: 11th Distinguished Lecture Series 2013
Growing older in yesterdays world
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Incomprehensible Comprehensibility of the Universe
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful
Cabinet of Natural History
Vivisection by storytelling: the experimental novel in the late 19th century
Lewis Society
Renewable Energy
Wolfson College Science Society
Publishing in Nature journals
The Triple Helix Lecture Series
Panel Debate: Does scientific autonomy harm society?
⚠️ Free refreshments provided
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Journalism
Cambridge University Biological Society
Ethical issues in genomic research and practice: the Sanger Institute Deciphering Developmental Disorders project as a case study
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Molecular Programming
The Hewish Lectures
“The Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Climate Science in the Media: could it be done better, and how much does it matter?
Cambridge Screen Media Group
An evening with cameraman Ray Andrew
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?
Cabinet of Natural History
Cabinet physics in 18th-century France: the case of the Iceland spar, 1710–1788
Darwin College Lecture Series
Foresight in Ancient Civilisations
Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction
Inaugural CSIC Lecture: The New Normal for Natural Disasters
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW
⚠️ Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
A Scientific Wine Tasting with Dr James Hutchinson (RSC)
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Time to grow up?
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Kevin Brownlow: Adventures in Film History
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles
Cabinet of Natural History
Birds of paradise and collecting Eden: mythogenesis in Renaissance natural history
Wolfson College Science Society
The Great Ink Crisis
The Triple Helix Lecture Series
9 Billion Mouths to Feed: Should we turbocharge crops to feed the world?
⚠️ Free refreshments provided
Cambridge University Biological Society
Summer Studentships Event
Cambridge University Biological Society
The RNAi therapeutics roller coaster
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Computing on Encrypted Data
⚠️ Note change of date
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Plastic Electronics
MMP public and schools' events
'Travelling Salesman' - first UK screening
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Digital Affordances: some implications for the Humanities
⚠️ This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public
Cambridge Screen Media Group
A screening of filmmaker Lucia Yandoli's new short, 'Love Letter', with Q&A
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open
Cabinet of Natural History
Camelopardalis Giraffa in 1830s London: polite spectacle at Regent's Park
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
The Bioregional Economy: A public talk based on the new book by renowned green economist Molly Scott Cato
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
The Bioregional Economy: A public talk based on the new book by renowned green economist Molly Scott Cato
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Lord O'Donnell
Cambridge University Biological Society
Evolution of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian Devils
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Does Time Exist?
Wolfson College Humanities Society talks
Merchants of Culture: the Making of Bestsellers
⚠️ This talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Are We Alone?
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
EDF R&D: creating value today and preparing for tomorrow
⚠️ Refreshments will be provided!
Cabinet of Natural History
'The Age of Reptiles' and 'Memnonium or Head of Rameses': the frontispiece of George Fleming Richardson's Geology for Beginners (1842 and 1843)
Wolfson College Science Society
Issues in fuel supply and utilisation
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality?
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Fireworks and Waterworks! Spectacular demonstration lecture.
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD or no PhD?
Cambridge University Biological Society
Using selfish genes to reduce malaria
Cambridge Philosophical Society
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
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Selling category theory to the masses: a tale of food, spiders and Google
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Two-step, Nerve-tap, Tanglefoot: Tapdance Typologies in Cinema
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings
Cabinet of Natural History
Radiation and restoration: saving the American chestnut tree in the Atomic Age
Cambridge University Biological Society
Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Diagnostics
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Lord Young of Graffham
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) College of Scholar Presentations & Networking Event
⚠️ Free event. Open to all.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Controlling Cell Division
Cambridge Café Scientifique
'Losing your world while falling asleep'
Cambridge University Biological Society
Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviour
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Financial Technology: Algorithmic Trading and Social Media Analytics
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
CSAR Green Energy Debate
Cabinet of Natural History
Local medicines in a global empire: collecting medicinal plants in eighteenth-century Spanish Central America
⚠️ Please note change of speaker and topic
Wolfson College Science Society
90 days of night: A year in Antarctica at the French/Italian base Concordia Station
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith
Lady Margaret Lectures
Preventing cancer with vaccines: progress in the global control of cancer
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Science of Art
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Beyond film. The many birthdays of the digital age: scanning, 3D and Klimt's 'Nuda Veritas' remixed
Cambridge Philosophical Society
How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns
Cambridge University Biological Society
Leaves, Loops and Leonardo: The Generation of Biological Forms
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Molecules of Murder
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
CU Energy Network WELCOME SQUASH 2012-2013!
⚠️ Refreshments will be provided
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Friction in the Machine: How Fluid Processes Allow Optimal Human-Computer Interaction
Cabinet of Natural History
The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!
Wolfson College Science Society
Could the ageing be infectious?
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Food Detectives - Some curious cases with a chemical twist
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Can Nurture Influence Nature?
Cambridge Screen Media Group
The First Turns of an Embodied Cinema: 'Duncan Grant’s Abstract Kinetic Collage Painting with Sound'
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Larmor Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin
Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
Winton Inaugural Symposium on Energy Efficiency
Cambridge BioDesign
Need and Nature of a New Scientific Revolution
⚠️ This free public event is running as part of the Cambridge BioDesign Symposium 2012 (www.cambridgebiodesign.org). Admission is free. Tickets will be available on the door. Reserve your place now via http://newscientificrevolution.eventbrite.com.
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
September Swishing with Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Cambridge Psychometrics Centre Seminars
IQ Gains in the 21st Century
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Open Eco Gardens
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
NUCLEAR: CLEAR OR UNCLEAR? - CUEN Annual Conference 2012
⚠️ Sustainability, policy and prospects
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
"Science, Computation and the Future"
Mordell Lectures
Categorical dynamics
MMP public and schools' events
Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine
⚠️ Please note - pre-booking is not required for this lecture, but please arrive on time for the start of the talk.
Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society seminar series
The Greek Crisis and the Elections of 2012: The end of chimaerae?
⚠️ A wine reception will follow the lecture
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Genetics and Evolution of Transmissible Cancers in Dogs and Tasmanian Devils
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Putting Machinima in (or out of) Cinema: A Roundtable on Films made in Virtual Worlds
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie
Wolfson College Science Society
Hearing loss and hearing aids
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Literature, Cinema, Television - Almodóvar and Bresson: Launch Event for the Legenda 'Moving Image' Series
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden
⚠️ Note tickets are £8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
FUTURE of PHOTOVOLTAICS in BUILDINGS
⚠️ Refreshments will be provided!
Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments
Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Bacteria as Active Colloids
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Adaptation in Theory and in Practice
Cabinet of Natural History
'Vampire excursions': making blood anthropological in the postwar era
Wolfson College Science Society
Extracting meaning from text
Rausing Lecture
The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control
⚠️ Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cabinet of Natural History
'It is indeed a thing ominous for a Toad to be born of Woman': taking experimental frogs and toads seriously
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
What makes us happy?
Wolfson College Science Society
From Gutenberg to the digital age: the challenges and opportunities of inkjet printing
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty
Spanish Researchers in UK (SRUK)-Cambridge
Los científicos españoles ante la Guerra Civil, el proceso de depuración y el exilio
⚠️ This talk will be in Spanish
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Presentations on Work in Progress in Screen Media
Cabinet of Natural History
An apprenticeship in theory: rethinking Darwin's debt to Lyell
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
The Inner Beauty of Crystals
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
GASLAND the documentary - screening
⚠️ The event is FREE of charge. Due to the limited number of spaces, please sign up at our webite: www.cuen.org.uk
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Cambridge Cafe Scientifique - How Intelligence Happens
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Meta-Morphogenesis: Evolution of mechanisms for producing minds
Wolfson College Science Society
The mammary gland: a source of milk and a cancer time bomb
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and Policy
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Eco-Renovation Question Time
Lady Margaret Lectures
Computational Environment Design for Online Communities
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Humour in Science
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Teorema (Pasolini, 1968): A Roundtable on Film and Literature with Ali Smith, Robert Gordon and Lucia Yandoli
Cabinet of Natural History
Raiders of the lost ark: an introduction into the practical archaeology of knowledge at the collections of the University of Basel
Arcadia Project Seminars
Kodak and the Creation of Popular Photography: Explaining the Life and Death of an Icon
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
The Sharing Economy: An Introduction to Collaborative Consumption
Cambridge Philosophical Society
"When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history"
⚠️ LECTURE TO COMMEMORATE THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF SCOTT'S POLAR EXPEDITION OF 1912
Arcadia Project Seminars
Open Access Publishing for Books and Library Consortia
Cambridge Café Scientifique
What is Pain and how can we treat it?
Cambridge Café Scientifique
What is Pain and how can we treat it?
MMP public and schools' events
How Fast Can Usain Bolt Run?
Cambridge University Biological Society
A 2020 vision of Biology: the present and future of microscopy-based functional genomics
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Roles of Immunity in Influenza Virus Evolution.
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
The next 40 years
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Breaking Habits & Going For Green: a Carbon Conversations Taster Session
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
"Stem Cell Bioprocessing: The Role of Chemical Engineering"
MMP public and schools' events
A Mathematical Look at the Olympics
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?
Cabinet of Natural History
Thomas Bewick, engraving the world
Wolfson College Science Society
The Jet Engine: What Happens If....?
Darwin College Lecture Series
The After Life
Scott Lectures
Metadynamics
Cambridge University Biological Society
Reprogramming the Genetic Code
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
The Theory behind TheoryMine
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Putin, Russia and the West, with documentary makers Brian Lapping and Norma Percy
Cambridge University Biological Society
The earliest tetrapods: What were they, and what are they?
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Making peace with the Earth
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Youthful Spirit of Mathematics
Scott Lectures
Ab-initio simulation of water and its ions
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
" Towards a Science of Cultural Evolution"
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Graduate work in progress: Screen Media seminar with Lauri Kitsnik and Alice Allen
Scott Lectures
Colouring the Noise
Cabinet of Natural History
Peter Paul Rubens and the bird of paradise: natural knowledge and painting in 17th-century Europe
⚠️ Please note change of speaker and title
Trinity Mathematical Society
TMS Symposium
Darwin College Lecture Series
Artificial Life
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Advanced Recycling
Cambridge University Biological Society
From Coding the Genome to Algorithms Decoding Life
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Intelligence and Security in a Digital Age
Cambridge University Biological Society
Abandoning a medical career for sex, conflict, and violence
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
"The natural and enhanced mathematical brain"
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Quantum chemical games of life
Cabinet of Natural History
Curating science in an age of empire: the Kew Museums of Economic Botany
Wolfson College Science Society
The Unexpected Side of Entropy
Darwin College Lecture Series
Life and Death of a Cell
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
HOME the movie - screening
⚠️ The event is free of charge. Due to the limited number of seats available, please sign up at www.cuen.org.uk
Cambridge University Biological Society
New Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Neurodegenerative Diseases
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
“Modelling aspects of tumour growth and progression”
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Open your Mind
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Computer gaming and the art of narrative
Cabinet of Natural History
Virgin birth crosses the Atlantic: Jacques Loeb's experiments on artificial parthenogenesis in the British press, 1900–06
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
The Economics of Happiness
Darwin College Lecture Series
Life in Conflict
aac10's list
IBM Watson from Jeopardy! to Healthcare: could a quiz-show winning computer advise your doctor?
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Challenges of Regulating the Internet
Cambridge University Biological Society
Giving proteins addresses
Cambridge University Biological Society
Rho GTPase signalling in tumour invasion
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change
Cambridge Canadian Club Events
High Commissioner for Canada to the UK, Mr Gordon Campbell, to speak on 'Canada in a Changing World'
⚠️ This is the High Commissioner's first official visit to Cambridge. All are welcome to attend.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
“Astrophysicist - Speaker of the Parliament”
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Gilding the lily: understanding angiosperm diversity through petal evolution and development
Cabinet of Natural History
Recalled into stalk and leaves: the many methods and meanings of early modern palingenesis
Wolfson College Science Society
The placenta: a remarkable but often neglected organ
Darwin College Lecture Series
Life in the Ancient World
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Molecular Model Solutions
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
(Failing to) avoid success at all costs: the Haskell story
Cambridge University Biological Society
Research Involving Animals Containing Human Material
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
The power of markets to protect nature
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
“Fingerprints of the Early Universe”
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics
Cambridge Screen Media Group
La Place de la Bastille and the place of cultural topography
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls and idols: anthropometrics, antiquity collections, and the origin of American man
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Spark of Life
Cambridge University Biological Society
Quantifying Cancer Heterogeneity
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Evolution of Animal Societies
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open
Lady Margaret Lectures
War and Peace: The Reality. How and Why Russia Defeated Napoleon
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
"Biologically-Inspired Massively-Parallel Computing"
MMP public and schools' events
Maths in the City
⚠️ General public, Age range 15+ Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential, please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Some Good News About Climate Change
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications
⚠️ G I TAYLOR LECTURE
Cabinet of Natural History
Agricultural science and the Development Commission: the Olby account revisited
Wolfson College Science Society
Consciousness at stake: Perspectives from an anaesthetist
Darwin College Lecture Series
Life in Ruins
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Meta-morphogenesis: Evolution of Mechanisms for Producing Minds
⚠️ Due to unfortunate medical problems Prof. Sloman is unavailable to give this talk. A new speaker, Nobel laureate Prof. Brian Josephson will be giving a replacement talk, details can be found here: http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/36113
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Early Days of Single Ion Channel Recording: Proof of Concept and Surprises
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
"Proton Therapy: Particle physics fights cancer"
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Science and Non-science in Drug Policy
⚠️ Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Screenwriting from a practical perspective: some myths debunked
Cabinet of Natural History
Creativity and the construction of fossils: 'The artist's piece is already in the stone'
Darwin College Lecture Series
From Genomes to the Diversity of Life
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science
⚠️ Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Brain control of appetite and body weight
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Screening of FUEL - the documentary
⚠️ This event is FREE of charge. Due to limited spaces available, please SIGN UP at http://www.cuen.org.uk/
Arcadia Lectures
Revolutions (and Elephants) in the Library: the Third Arcadia Lecture
⚠️ Please email Michelle Heydon (mh569@cam.ac.uk) if you plan to attend
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Future of Energy: Views and Approaches by Government and Industry
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Is water H2O?
⚠️ Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Unsupervised Machine Learning and Linguistics
⚠️ Last talk of term
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Everything from nothing: how our universe was made
Arcadia Project Seminars
The Serendipity Engine
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology
Cabinet of Natural History
Continuities in Francis Crick's scientific life and the ethos of post-World War II Cambridge biophysics
Wolfson College Science Society
Watching proteins fold and unfold one at a time. How physics can teach us lessons about biology
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
The Meaning of Liberal Learning
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Don't Get Your Face Stolen! A Talk on ePassport Cryptography
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Rosemary Randall on ‘Behaviour change: solution or diversion?’ 23 November
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Large Hadron Collider: answering Gauguin's questions about the Universe
Cambridge Café Scientifique
A window on the biology of behaviour: insights from syndromes of genetic origin
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Some inconvenient economics of energy and climate policy
⚠️ Refreshments will be provided!
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Passion, Energy and Matter: Godard's Gestures
Cabinet of Natural History
Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmaker
Cambridge University Biological Society
Internship Event
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Imaginary Interfaces: Interacting Spatially Without Visual Feedback
Cambridge University Biological Society
Incest and Folk-Dancing: Two things to avoid.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The limits of science
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
How Thorium Could Save the Planet
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Film critic Anthony Lane on Jean Renoir's 'Partie de campagne' and Maupassant
Cabinet of Natural History
Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspective of oceanography in the 1920s
Wolfson College Science Society
How nature might influence nurture
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Challenges of Cyber Warfare
Cambridge University Biological Society
Cells move! But how do they do it?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Multiple Sclerosis Genetics - light at the end of the tunnel
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in Prehistory
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Distraction and Remediation in British Transmedia Campaigns of the Nineties and Noughties
Cabinet of Natural History
Domesticating the Victorian dog: a public life for a private animal
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Great Ideas of Computing Science: from Aristotle to Euclid
Cambridge University Biological Society
Branching out!
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Defeating Ageing with Regenerative Medicine
Arcadia Project Seminars
The power of the voice in the age of the Internet
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Science and the Media
⚠️ The lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society
Cabinet of Natural History
Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic
Wolfson College Science Society
Communication with a single button
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Rain Water Harvesting with Graham Cross
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
The Biochemistry of Autumn - Why do the leaves fall?
⚠️ Organised by CU ChemSoc, SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD Event
Cambridge Centre for Climate Science
Carbon sequestration in forests.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Indexicality, Sensuousness and Intimacy in Film
Cambridge University Biological Society
FILM NIGHT - Planet of the Apes (1968)
Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series
Talking to Terrorists
Cambridge Screen Media Group
The Impact of Silent Films: Kevin Brownlow at the Arts Picturehouse
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Photonic Quantum Information Science and Technologies
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Intrinsic Lability of DNA, and the continuous DNA repair triggered in this fashion
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The commercialization of university research
Social Anthropology
Smuts Commonwealth Lecture - Empire and the Historical Imagination in Colonial India
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Secret Science of WWII
Cabinet of Natural History
Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover
Wolfson College Science Society
Rubik's Planet; Global Consequences of Nanoscale Phenomena
Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks
Pembroke College William Pitt Seminar: the future of the World in four objects
⚠️ Please contact Jane Moorman, jm596@cam.ac.uk, if you are interested in attending. Places are limited.
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Science in the House of Commons (PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 19:45)
⚠️ Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region & RSC Mid-Anglia Section
Lady Margaret Lectures
Evolution of Darwin’s Finches: the role of genetics, ecology and behaviour
⚠️ Arranged in conjunction with the Charles Darwin and Galapagos Islands Fund
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Darkness visible: the search for the missing mass of the universe
Cambridge Café Scientifique
'NHS rationing, NICE or nasty’ The value of statistics
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The diversity of extrasolar planetary systems: Clues to planet formation and migration
⚠️ LARMOR LECTURE
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Larmor Lecture
⚠️ This lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cambridge Screen Media Group
Literature and Film in the First Media Age
Cabinet of Natural History
'Your observations and experiments are by far the best which have ever been made': the hidden world of women and science in Charles Darwin's private correspondence
Arcadia Project Seminars
Why Communicate?
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Gale Force: Offshore Wind Power - 2011 CUEN Annual Conference
The Hewish Lectures
Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Learning about learning - a new approach to studying Huntington's Disease
Arcadia Project Seminars
Google, Crowds and Mobs
Hughes Hall Graduate Law Society seminar series
Pandaemonium Continued: Will the Greek Financial Crisis Undermine the Euro?
⚠️ A wine reception will follow the seminar
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Controlling the diabetes epidemic. Is screening the way forward?
Cabinet of Natural History
The gilded canopy: the botanical ceilings of the Natural History Museum
Wolfson College Science Society
The Nature of Empathy: Perspectives from Psychiatry
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Science in the service of the developing world
⚠️ This lecture is now fully booked.
Wolfson College Science Society
Bananas, bandits and biology on the high seas
Rausing Lecture
Surveying the scene, engineering the machine: drawing things together in the Age of Enlightenment
⚠️ Sixteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cambridge University Biological Society
BioSoc AGM
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Genomes, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery: What Can Academia Contribute?
Cabinet of Natural History
Victoria's secret: science and the monarchy
Wolfson College Science Society
Nanotechnology: Science or Fiction?
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Zero Degrees of Empathy
Cambridge University Biological Society
Postponed
Cabinet of Natural History
The fairy-tales of science
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
'Infection and autoimmunity: there may be some advantages to co-habitation'
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Efficiency, sufficiency, growth: which way to a low carbon society?
⚠️ Talk open to All - Registration required: www.dar.cam.ac.uk/connections
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Doing Mathematics online, and in the open
Centre of Latin American Studies - lectures
Saskia Sassen (Columbia): 'Emergent Logics of Expulsion: Beyond Social Exclusion'
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Director-General of the BBC
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
From Einstein to the Large Hadron Collider
Arcadia Project Seminars
Digitisation and Print on demand for Cambridge University Library
Mordell Lectures
Short presentations of finite groups
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Why We Resist The Truth
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Sir Richard Dearlove
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
DNA Profiling of Horses
⚠️ Please note this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday
Arcadia Project Seminars
"Hunters, Gathers and Groundhogs: consumers as co-developers to deliver novel mobile applications"
YES! to Fairer Votes
Referendum Debate
Cambridge Science Festival
Bird tango
Cambridge Science Festival
You are what you hear: music and the brain
Cambridge Science Festival
Changing nature: a view of Britain and Cambridge
Cambridge Science Festival
The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancers
Cambridge Science Festival
Is evolution predictable?
Cambridge Science Festival
Challenged by carbon: the oil industry and climate change
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
High Temperature Superconductors
⚠️ Venue back to normal
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction Sector
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Decarbonising the transport system
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
'Sophisticated Small Satellites from Surrey'
Arcadia Project Seminars
Reinventing the Book
Cambridge Philosophical Society
SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS
Cabinet of Natural History
Using Babylonian gods to sell cod liver oil: Henry Wellcome and medical interest in Assyriology around 1900
Wolfson College Science Society
Have I got path for you...?
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Science and Beauty of Nebulae
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference
⚠️ A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks
Lady Margaret Lectures
This Time it Will be Different
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference
⚠️ A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
[CANCELLED] From Genomes to Health
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
The Beauty of Data Visualization
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Mathematics of Complex Systems
⚠️ PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE
Scott Lectures
Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference
⚠️ A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer
Cabinet of Natural History
'Map of Turkey, a flexible hat, pencils, and the Talbotype': travelling artists in mid-19th century archaeological expeditions to the Middle East
Darwin College Lecture Series
Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Coalition’s Vision for Science and Technology
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Science in Emergencies
⚠️ Talk open to All - Registration required for reception
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Is it possible to break the World Land speed record again?
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Driving innovation into application: the passion behind creating a Biotechnology company
Arcadia Project Seminars
What do people really need to know about the Net?
Cambridge University Biological Society
Inherit the Wind - Free film screening!
Cambridge Philosophical Society
UNDERSTANDING AND CURING CANCER: LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Cabinet of Natural History
Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants
Wolfson College Science Society
"Quantum teleportation, its use and abuse"
Darwin College Lecture Series
Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Magnetricity and Magnetic Monopoles
Cambridge University Biological Society
Life in the Universe: Chance or Necessity?
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Do We Really Need Pixels?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Peanut Allergies
⚠️ PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE
Cabinet of Natural History
The subjectivity of early modern knowledge in the Garden of Life
Darwin College Lecture Series
Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Untangling Alzheimer's disease
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
When ideas have sex: the collective brain
Cambridge Philosophical Society
FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS
Cabinet of Natural History
Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya
Cambridge Carbon Footprint
Zero Carbon Britain 2030
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Sound of Beauty
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Twistors and Quantum Non-Locality
Cambridge University Biological Society
Icons of evolution and charges of fraud
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica
⚠️ PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE
Cabinet of Natural History
Mountainous effects: Alpine space and Victorian lady climbers
Wolfson College Science Society
"Printed and plastic electronics: will the microchips of the future be printed?"
Darwin College Lecture Series
Quantum Beauty
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)
Lady Margaret Lectures
Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Paul Dirac and the Religion of Mathematical Beauty
Cambridge University Biological Society
Critical illness and the maladaptive forces of modern medicine
IET Cambridge Network - Lectures
2050 Pathways: Kicking the fossil fuel habit
⚠️ Tea is served from 6pm, all welcome (it's free).
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS
⚠️ Co-hosted with the Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics. A complimentary drinks reception will follow on after the lecture for all attendees.
Cabinet of Natural History
The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history
MMP public and schools' events
Cambridge Maths Circle
Darwin College Lecture Series
Beauty & The Grotesque
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.
Market Square: Cambridge Business and Society Interdisciplinary Research Group
Mutualising the Market: Could the 'Big Society' transform business and finance?
⚠️ Limited seats are available for dinner with the speaker. Please e-mail us if you’re interested.
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Energy Security and UK Energy Policy
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
"The End of the Line": How Overfishing Is Changing the World And What We Eat
Cambridge University Biological Society
How I got into the mitochondrion
Cabinet of Natural History
The hungry cats of Pietro Antonio Michiel, or the fragile nature of Renaissance collecting
Wolfson College Science Society
"Is nuclear reprogramming a route to cell replacement therapy?"
Darwin College Lecture Series
Beauty & Truth
Arcadia Project Seminars
Changing BBC News: the cultural, managerial and editorial challenges of adapting to a digital environment
MMP public and schools' events
Number Play
⚠️ Level Suggested: Primary - 9 - 11, general public. Admission to the lecture is free but pre-booking is essential. Please email mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
ANTARCTICA DAY Inaugural Lecture
⚠️ Note unusual time (7 PM)
Synthetic Biology
The 2010 Cambridge iGEM talk: E.glowi- Self-sufficient light output for biosensors and lighting
⚠️ This talk will be of interest to Engineering, Physical and Natural Science undergraduate students
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Devilish decline: infectious cancer and the Tasmanian devil
Cambridge University Biological Society
Reading the human genome: the reconstruction of the past
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Telepathy: not your grandmother's communications framework
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Human Contact Networks
Cabinet of Natural History
Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain
Wolfson College Science Society
"Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit?"
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Science in Parliament
⚠️ The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 5:15pm
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Volcanic eruptions: causes and consequences
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Xen and the Art of Startups
Cambridge Philosophical Society
FROM VAN DER WAALS TO MODELLING PROTEIN CHRYSTALLISATION
Cabinet of Natural History
The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
London 2012 Olympic Games
Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series
The future of science in Parliament
⚠️ This lecture is now full.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Snake and Lobster - A Feast for MICCAI
Arcadia Project Seminars
Re-engineering the scholarly journal
Cambridge University Biological Society
Title to be confirmed
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Sustainable Energy in the UK
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Title to be confirmed
Cabinet of Natural History
The human automatism debate in the late 19th century
MMP public and schools' events
Hands-on Cambridge Maths Circle workshop: Algorithms
MMP public and schools' events
Cambridge Maths Circle
Wolfson College Science Society
"Of water flumes, waxy walls and toilet bowls: trapping strategies of carnivorous pitcher plants"
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Delights of Chemistry - Spectacular demonstration lecture
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Verification of Quantum Mechanics
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Don't Look Now: Representations of Violence in Media
Cambridge Café Scientifique
DNA and Cancer
Lionhead Studios
Lionhead Studios - Fable III Multiplayer game developer talk
Cambridge University Biological Society
What have we learned from structures of the ribosome?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
THE ANTIBODY REVOLUTION; FROM SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS TO COMPANIES AND MEDICINES
Cabinet of Natural History
Victorian palaeontology and serial publication
Tanner Lectures
Tanner Lectures 2010: Respondents' Discussion
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - CLONING, NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND PROSPECTS FOR CELL REPLACEMENT
Tanner Lectures
Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?
⚠️ Tickets for this event can be picked up from the Porters' Lodge (32360)
Arcadia Project Seminars
The end of lawyers?
Cambridge University Biological Society
CANCELLED
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Molecular Modelling of Anaesthetics
⚠️ This lecture will be preceded by the society's AGM
Humanitas lectures
The Transformation of the Media Business
Cabinet of Natural History
Politeness and the ethical force of natural history
ICT4D: ICT for Development
Global Poverty and ICTs: What Cambridge can do to change the world
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD or no PhD?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
TENSEGRITY: THE ART AND MATHEMATICS OF PRE-STRESSED STRUCTURES
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Neonatal diabetes: From Gene to Therapy
Wolfson College Science Society
"Causes and prevention of type 2 diabetes"
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Can we feed 9 billion?
Lady Margaret Lectures
'Infections and Cancer - Results and some Perspectives'
Cambridge Café Scientifique
'Dementia and an ageing society'
⚠️ Please note a change in day and venue.
MedSIN talks
Foreign Aid: Is it helping?
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Entrepreneurship Revealed: Building Game Changing Businesses
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Physiology of Autumn
Cabinet of Natural History
Maya ruins, volcanoes and the colonial state in 18th-century Central America
Wolfson College Science Society
"The Master Puppeteer: How the Brain Controls the Body"
Cambridge University Biological Society
BioSoc Squash!
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
And now for something completely different – when engineers did maths and mathematicians talked to God
Humanitas lectures
Print Journalism and the Digital Word
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS
⚠️ Note venue change
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
String Theory - A unifying principle in theoretical physics
⚠️ Please note that this lecture is not at the usual spacetime coordinates.
Humanitas lectures
Freedom and the Internet
Cabinet of Natural History
Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration
Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar
Lives on The Ice - Changing Patterns of Antarctic Experience from Scott to Byrd
⚠️ Note unusual time: this seminar is on a Thursday
CRASSH lectures
Risk, Uncertainty and Regulation
CRASSH lectures
How do Climate Models Gain and Exercise Authority?
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Diderot: A Parallel Domain-Specific Language for Image Analysis
Machine Learning @ CUED
Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politics
⚠️ general audience talk (non-technical) -- NOTE change of room to LR4!
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Synthetic Biology: Making Artificial Life?
Fitzwilliam Museum
Work in Progress: Nick Turvey
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Information, Networks and Markets
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
The 2010 CUEN Annual Energy Conference - Driving Change: Energy and Transportation in the 21st Century
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Gambling and the brain
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
A new theory of the city
The Hewish Lectures
Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Genomics, Society and Policies
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Constructing the contemporary city: informal housing processes in Latin America
Arcadia Project Seminars
Death 2.0: What Becomes of Digital Assets after Death?"
⚠️ All welcome, but please register your intent to attend to the organiser, mh569@cam.ac.uk
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
NATO in the 21st Century
Rausing Lecture
From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren
⚠️ Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Housing the poor in Latin America: changing attitudes towards urban informality
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Happy Danes
⚠️ Please note that this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday
Cabinet of Natural History
The herbarium and the computer: investigating John Henslow's science
Scott Lectures
Gravitational-Wave Detectors Below 10Hz: LISA, Pulsar Timing Arrays, CMB Polarization, Atom Interferometers, and the Big Bang Observer
⚠️ This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics
Alan Blackwell's list
The Corpus Christi Clock
CRASSH lectures
Elaine Scarry (Harvard, US): 'The Floor of the World'
Research Office Linked Events
EPSRC Presentation - Why "Impact" Matters
Research Office Linked Events
EPSRC Presentation - Why "Impact" Matters
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit?
Fitzwilliam Museum
Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum
Scott Lectures
Gravitational-Wave Detectors above 10Hz: Weber Bars, LIGO, GEO, VIRGO, TAMA, LCGT, and Einstein Telescope
⚠️ This lecture is a colloquium style lecture in physics
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
A placemaker’s guide to building community
Arcadia Project Seminars
Arcadia Seminar: 18th May 2010. “Collect, Protect, Connect: From Digital Himalaya to the World Oral Literature Project”, Dr Mark Turin
⚠️ All welcome, but please register your intent to attend to the organiser, mh569@cam.ac.uk
Scott Lectures
Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe
⚠️ This lecture is for a general audience.
Cabinet of Natural History
Nature teaching on the blackboard: visual learning in early twentieth-century English school science
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
Evidence based policy making: How can government be an intelligent user of science?
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)
⚠️ This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April)
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Ecological design and planning
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
MERCURY - WINDOW ON THE INVISIBLE
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global Prosperity
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Holographic Technologies
Cabinet of Natural History
Experiments in description: Victorian physics and the natural history of electricity
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
A future zero carbon built environment?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Len Fisher - Equations for Everyday Life
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Anaerobic Digestion: From Waste to Energy
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Cloning, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: The World After Dolly
Arcadia Lectures
The Social Life of Digital Libraries: the Second Arcadia Lecture
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event
⚠️ FREE & OPEN TO ALL
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Ape Research in Indonesia - Marrying Science with Conservation
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Science - facts and frictions
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
The Isle of Dogs: four development waves, five planning models, twelve plans, thirty five years, and a renaissance - of sorts
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Synchrotron light: from Einstein's theories into a brilliant future
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Brood Parasitism
Cabinet of Natural History
Dragons, insects and porcupines: locating the Victorian 'dinosaur'
Martin Centre Research Seminar Series - 40th Annual Series of Lunchtime Lectures
Sustainability and the traditional architecture of Japan: cities that could revert to summer grass
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
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’
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Jumping to Delusions - how the brain takes dangerous shortcuts
Arcadia Project Seminars
"I know what you Borrowed Last Summer: Exploiting Usage Data in an Academic Library"
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Networks in Crisis
⚠️ http://www.gold.ac.uk/design/
EMBL-EBI Science and Society Programme
Who Owns Science: Promises and Pitfalls of the Public-Private Partnerships
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
When is a structure a musical instrument? Adventures in tuned percussion
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Title to be confirmed
Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)
The Copenhagen Accord: A significant 'first step' or a disastrously missed opportunity?
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
CUEN Seminar: People and Sustainability
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Delivering genuine sustainability in the built environment - obstacles and opportunities
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
O the noise, noise, Noise, NOISE!
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Sir David Baulcombe - Of Maize and Men
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Lessons from the Obama Campaign: Making the Obama Digital Model Work in Politics and Beyond
Cambridge Philosophical Society
What should we do about the diabetes epidemic? Insights from epidemiology
Cabinet of Natural History
English visitors to Vesuvius and Solfatara in the early seventeenth century
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change
Lady Margaret Lectures
Hearing God: an anthropological look at American evangelical Christianity
Centre for Science and Policy Distinguished Lecture Series
Science policy research - can research influence policy? How? And does it make for better policy?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Oil And Gas Industry: The Next 30 Years
Arcadia Project Seminars
A Pedagogy of Abundance - new teaching models for a digital age
Cambridge University Biological Society
Sex and Molecular Evolution
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Sustainable Building in the UK
Cambridge University Southeast Asia Forum
Bringing Pol Pot's Henchmen to Justice: An Insider's View of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Tribunal
Cabinet of Natural History
William Buckland's oral history of deep time, or, things that made him go mmmmmmmmmm
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and Natural Catastrophes
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Our Place in the Cosmos
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Cities of the Future
MMP public and schools' events
Global Warming and the Melting of the Arctic Ice
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free and no ticket required – for more information please contact Kerstin Enright, Millennium Mathematics Project, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA (01223 766839) or email: mmptalks@hermes
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Prof Andrew Lever - Getting Intimate With HIV
Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)
Chip & PIN is NOT Broken: Facing Up to Failure
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The consequences of Chernobyl, from human health to genetic mechanisms
CRASSH lectures
The Physiologist at the Opera: Claude Perrault and the Politics of Pleasure in the Ancien Régime
Cabinet of Natural History
Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk, Security and Terrorism
CRASSH lectures
Translating Religion and Secularism in China
Cambridge University Biological Society
Building Bridges between Genes, Brains and Language
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
You must be joking; Cities as a force for good in the environment
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Prof Kevin Warwick - Cyborg Experiments
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Imaging Cancer
⚠️ Please note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Control of Cell Division
CRASSH lectures
Blaxploitation: the Music
Cabinet of Natural History
Geology, caves, and original architecture: ideas of origins and early nineteenth-century geology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Title to be confirmed
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and Humanities
Cambridge Clinical Research Centre for Affective Disorder Seminar Series
DEVELOPING AND DISSEMINATING EFFECTIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS FOR ANXIETY DISORDERS: SCIENCE, POLICY AND ECONOMICS
CRASSH lectures
The University in the Face of a Pharmacology of the Mind
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Logic of Foraging
⚠️ Followed by a wine reception
Cambridge University Biological Society
Sperm from Stem Cells
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Dynamics of Avalanches
Cabinet of Natural History
Rethinking the synthesis period in evolutionary studies, 1930s and 1940s
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance
Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks
You are not a gadget
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
How do we really bring vision correction to those that need it in the Developing World?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Prof Nicola Clayton - Do Animals Make Shopping Lists?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo
⚠️ Please Note this lecture is not on a Monday
Cambridge University Biological Society
Stripping Down Science: The Story of the Naked Scientists
Cabinet of Natural History
Beale, Bennett, Scoresby (and Melville!): a 'natural' history of cetology
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Pandemic! Where do new infections come from?
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Roadmap to 2050
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Lord Robert Winston (Free Entry)
Cambridge University Biological Society
Understanding the Complexity of Eukaryotic Cells: Triumphs of Fungal Genetics
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Stirring Tails of Evolution
Cabinet of Natural History
The lake as a microcosm: Otto Zacharias and the civic origins of limnology
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk: Science and the Media
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Gravitational Lensing
Cabinet of Natural History
The curious case of the London Skull: the making of a British human ancestor
Darwin College Lecture Series
Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Discussion with movie director and writer of The Horse Boy
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Genetic testing: Truth or Dare?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication
⚠️ An interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Predicting biological functions at different spatial scales: From molecules to ecosystems
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Prof. David Colquhoun - Science in an Age of Endarkenment
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Discussion Group: The Environmental Impact of Aviation
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
The Cyberknife
Arcadia Project Seminars
Scholarly Publishing 2.0 Squared
⚠️ Please register your intent to attend to the organiser, mh569@cam.ac.uk
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Robotic Surgery
Cabinet of Natural History
Reflections on re-treading Darwin's 'gigantic blunder' in Glen Roy
Peterhouse Theory Group
“Language and Silence in Religious and Continental Philosophy”.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Prof. Anthony Hollander - Claudia's Tracha and other Stem Cell Stories
Hughes Hall Events
Clones, stem cells, and cell replacement (Hats Off Club)
Arcadia Project Seminars
The Problem of Reading Lists
⚠️ Please register your intent to attend to the organiser, mh569@cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University Biological Society
HIV/AIDS: Science & Myth
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Cambridge - Treasure Island in the Fens
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Tracing human ancestry using DNA
Cabinet of Natural History
Lyell's plots
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOBILE AND UBIQUITOUS MULTIMEDIA (MUM 2009)
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Gates Coffeehouse Webinar: Breaking into Politics
Lady Margaret Lectures
Blind to the Obvious: the Resistance to Neo-Darwinian Sociology.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Prof. Rupert Sheldrake - Morphic Resonance, Collective Momory, and the Habits of Nature
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Laser Photonics
⚠️ Please note the return to our usual venue
Cabinet of Natural History
Head gardeners: the forgotten heroes of horticulture
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Exploiting Bacteria to Battle Cancer
MMP public and schools' events
Through the Looking Glass ....again and again!
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. For tickets please e-mail Kerstin Enright at mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk or call 01223 766839, Age level: 11+, general public
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Science of Spinning Things
Cambridge University Biological Society
Burning Ice: Art, Science & Climate Change
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Hearing loss and hearing aids
Cabinet of Natural History
After the king of beasts: the embodied histories of elephant hunting in mid-nineteenth century Ceylon
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Gates Internal Symposium: Social Science and the Scientific Method
Cambridge Network events
Addenbrooke's Annual Lecture and Reception - Dr Susan Robinson on 'A Matter of Life or Death'
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTURE
⚠️ Free & open to all (suitable for families)
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Dr. Michael Pollitt: Delivering the Low Carbon Electricity System
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Our cosmic environment
Peterhouse Theory Group
"Music, rhythm, and movement: Why we fill the silence?"
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Prof. John Beddington - Title TBC
Arcadia Project Seminars
Thinking Like a Dandelion: Cory Doctorow on copyright, Creative Commons and creativity
⚠️ Please email mh569@cam.ac.uk if you are planning to attend.
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Science and the Media
⚠️ Please note our temporary venue
Cabinet of Natural History
Coming to attention: observing nature at the edges during the Napoleonic Wars
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Sir David King - 21st Century Challanges
Lady Margaret Lectures
Cancer as a Darwinian Process
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD or NoT?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Measure of the Universe: a crisis for cosmology
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Statistical network analysis in computational genomics
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Marcus du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine
⚠️ Free Event - The Freshers' Squash
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Invisible Children: THE RESCUE
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Plagiarism in Science
⚠️ Please note our temporary venue
MMP public and schools' events
What Are The Odds?
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. For tickets please e-mail Kerstin Enright at mmptalks@hermes.cam.ac.uk or call 01223 766839, Level: age range 14 - 16, KS3-5
Cabinet of Natural History
'Botany of the air': experiments, airships and agriculture in 1930
Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks
Fourth William Pitt Seminar: "A Blueprint for survival"
⚠️ Invite only - please contact organiser if you are interested in coming.
Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars
Cryo Electron Microscopy: From Molecules to Systems
Cambridge Café Scientifique
Shrinking Down Nutrition: Nanofoods
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Just listen they're scared: The application of hostage negotiation in everyday life.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE - The internet and new forms of mathematical collaboration
Cabinet of Natural History
Fungi in history
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Cradle to Cradle Design
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Generalized, Efficient Array Decision procedures
Clinical Neuroscience and Mental Health Symposium
Music and the Mind
Genetics Seminar Series
"Systems Genetics of complex Traits in Drosophila"
⚠️ Note unusual time - Seminar will be held at 16:00pm
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Machine Learning Reveals the Genetic Code Controlling Splicing
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society
⚠️ Darwin 2009 Lecture
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
From Verification to Synthesis
Lady Margaret Beaufort Commemoration Event
Lady Margaret: Foundress of the Tudor dynasty
Lady Margaret Beaufort Commemoration Event
Tudor Portraits: Icon or Mask
Lady Margaret Beaufort Commemoration Event
Lady Margaret: Sponsor of the printed word
Lady Margaret Beaufort Commemoration Event
Lady Margaret: Where did the money come from?
MMP public and schools' events
THE SECRET WORLD OF CODES AND CODEBREAKING
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
The 2009 CUEN Annual Energy Conference - Solar Power: Lighting the way towards a sustainable future
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Refactoring with Generics
Faculty of Education Special Events
Inaugural Lecture: 'Leadership: its genealogy, configuration and trajectory'
⚠️ Please contact Susannah Lacon: sml44@cam.ac.uk 01223 767626/12 if you would like to attend.
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
PRIVATE EVENING TOUR OF THE CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - NOW FULLY BOOKED!
⚠️ Limited numbers. Tickets: Adults £5. Under 16s £3.
Peterhouse Theory Group
“Interfaith relations, scriptural reasoning, and theories of deliberative democracy” (title to be confirmed).
⚠️ Anyone is welcome to attend.
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Workshop on Networks, Auctions and Pricing - 1 Day
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Towards disposable healthcare devices: a paradigm shift
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Domain Knowledge Driven Program Analysis
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Happy Danes!" A scientific analysis of the recent EU survey into income and contentment
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Robot Scientists and the automated scientific laboratory
Microsoft Research Symposium
From microscopic to macroscopic descriptions of cell migration on growing domains
Microsoft Research Symposium
Informed matter: The confluence of information processes and material science
Microsoft Research Symposium
Visual search and mining of large scale image collections
Microsoft Research Symposium
Progress on development of a microfluidic robot scientist
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of Gambling
⚠️ Rescheduled from February
Rausing Lecture
Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world
⚠️ Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Cambridge University Biological Society
"Global Education of Cervical Cancer"
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Bringing new medicines to market" How the biopharmaceutical industry works
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew
Cambridge University Biological Society
The plastic brain
MMP public and schools' events
Magic Squares
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org
mh569's list
Supporting Early Career Researchers and Building Research Communities in Education
⚠️ Please register your intent to attend to the organiser.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Mental programs and the frontal lobe
Cabinet of Natural History
Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration
Peterhouse Theory Group
"The war that never was: the mundane and the exceptional in contemporary Brazil".
⚠️ Anyone is welcome to attend.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Human Stem Cells: Therapeutic and Research Potential
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Life in the Colonies" Social insects and their relevance to human behavior
Cabinet of Natural History
Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Filling Tomorrow's Pipeline - A discussion with Dr Martin Mackay, President of Pfizer Global Research and Development
Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine
Why is it useful to study bats in Africa?
Mordell Lectures
KAM and Rigidity
Lady Margaret Lectures
Socrates versus Darwin
Life Science Interface Seminars
A Journey in the World of Molecules
⚠️ NOBEL LAUREATE Linacre Lecture
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
William MCDonough (CANCELLED)
Cabinet of Natural History
'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London
Scott Lectures
Physics and Complexity : Examples
Peterhouse Theory Group
"Shooting War: Ethics in Conflict Photography"
⚠️ For those attending the talk, there is a special offer of a 15% discount on subscription to dispatches, including a back copy of the last issue, "Beyond Iraq", for which Yuri Kozyrev shot the main photo story. Anyone is welcome to attend.
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing country
⚠️ All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org
Brain and Consciousness
Learning, Stress and Integrated Brain-functioning
⚠️ Refreshments served from 17.30
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
A 21st Century View of National Security
Faculty of Education Special Events
Inaugural Lecture: 'The Power of Language: Literacy, (mis)communication and oppression in literature for young readers'
⚠️ Please contact Susannah Lacon: sml44@cam.ac.uk 01223 767626/12 if you would like to attend.
Scott Lectures
Physics and Complexity : Methodologies
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"The Venetians certainly knew about building" The extraordinary and enduring properties of Lime Mortar
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SciSoc Annual Founders' Dinner with Simon Baron-Cohen
⚠️ Tickets on sale now: visit http://groupspaces.com/SciSoc/e/11972?s=e223a8bf
Scott Lectures
Physics and Complexity : An Overview
Cabinet of Natural History
Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man'
Zoology Graduate Seminars
The genetics of pigmentation in the Red-billed quelea
Ecology Lunchtime Series
25 decades of dodgy data
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
ART MEETS SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LAPIS LAZULI & ULTRAMARINE
⚠️ Free & open to all.
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
TBC
Lady Margaret Lectures
Charles Darwin and the pattern of evolution
Cabinet of Natural History
Popularizing evolution: biographies and books for children
MMP public and schools' events
Magic Squares
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org
MMP public and schools' events
The subtle science of uncertainty
Cambridge Science Festival
The nature of life - a scientific debate
Cambridge Science Festival
Quantum
Cambridge Science Festival
Animals and ourselves
Cambridge Science Festival
What is consciousness for?
Cambridge Science Festival
The cosmic century; a history of astrophysics and cosmology
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back Yard
⚠️ All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org
Cambridge Science Festival
Small and beautiful: Alex Hopkins lecture
Cambridge Science Festival
Quantum anomalies and the origin of time
Cambridge Science Festival
Chemistry saves lives
Cambridge Science Festival
Statistics are either dull or wrong:discuss
Cambridge Science Festival
Darwin's Islands: In Darwin's footsteps to the Galapagos
⚠️ Ages 12+, Pre book (tel 01223 364721 ext 66147, email: ro6-Outreach@open.ac.uk
Cambridge Science Festival
It is rocket science!
Cambridge Science Festival
Sustainable energy - without the hot air
Cambridge University Biological Society
Darwinspotting in 2009: Are there any real ones out there?
Cambridge Science Festival
How your mobile phone works
Cambridge Science Festival
A function of the time: the Cavendish Society and its postprandial proceedings
⚠️ Age 12+
Cambridge Science Festival
A taste of teaching: D&T and Sciences
⚠️ This event is for adults only
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
'A function of the time': the Cavendish Society and its Postprandial Proceedings
Cambridge University Biological Society
"Identifying lipid signals in normal and diseased cells"
Cambridge Science Festival
Making the most of our minds
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Innovating to sustainability
Cambridge Science Festival
Marshall - one hundred years in Cambridge
Lady Margaret Lectures
Darwin and Genetics: 1909 and 2009
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Fighting Blindness in the Developing World
Cambridge Science Festival
Darwin in a global context
Cambridge Science Festival
EESCN question time - stem cell special
⚠️ Pre book (please visit www.eescn.org.uk)
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
THE POPULATION FACTOR- HOW DOES IT RELATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?
Cambridge University Biological Society
"Plant-insect-interactions to drug development"
Cambridge Science Festival
Can science beat terrorism?
Cambridge Science Festival
'Orphan diseases' and research collaborations in global health innovation
Cambridge Science Festival
Why do we like to eat?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Machines that see
Cabinet of Natural History
Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Boundaries of Darwinism
Cambridge Usability Group
Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery (A Few Places Now Available!)
⚠️ A few people have dropped out - we have about 17 seats available now!!
ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)
The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars
Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
When The Golden Chain Breaks: Sleep Dysfunction in Neurogenerative Disorder
Danby Society
The Science and Beauty of Nebulae
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
RESPONDING TO CHANGES IN NATURE
MMP public and schools' events
The Four Colour Theorem
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Where is it safe to go on holiday?" Antigenic Cartography; a mathematical method for mapping the spread of viruses
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Vaccine Development in the Year 2100
Cabinet of Natural History
'The unrecovered country': the non-drainage of the Fens, 1619-20
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Lent Internal Symposium 2009
⚠️ Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/GatesInternalSeminar.mp3
Darwin College Lecture Series
Is Human Evolution Over?
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
(Mis)communicating Science and Technology: Challenges in Public Communications on Climate Change and Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
Wildlife and Environment
Alternatives to Fossil Fuels
⚠️ David MacKay is a wonderful speaker: lively, funny, wonderfully clear and easy to follow. Do not think that you cannot understand the problem, or that talks by professors of physics are not for you. Professors are not what they used to be!
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainability in the resources sector
MMP public and schools' events
The Mathematics of Evolutionary Biology
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Shedding Light on Dark Matter
Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series
Sex differences in cognition
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
CAN WE ADAPT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN TIME?
Psychology and Religion Research Group (PRRG)
Strange bedfellows: Psychologists in missionary care
⚠️ Tea and coffee from 4.00pm.
Cambridge University Biological Society
How moral is bioethics?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The biomechanics of Spiderman: how insects walk on the ceiling
Kuwait Foundation Lectures
Bloom Filters, Related Data Structures, and their Applications
Cabinet of Natural History
Punishing bodies: image and ambiguity in the Lydian-Phrygian 'confession stelae'
Darwin College Lecture Series
Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
A sustainable technology strategy for engineers
Philosophy of Cognitive Science
The phenomenology of the extended mind: why your beliefs are not in your iPhone
Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia
Issues in the study of early life (full title TBA)
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
CREATING NEW AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Cambridge and the Environment
⚠️ Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/ViceChancellorRichards.mp3
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Genetics and Cancer" The BRCA2 gene (discovered by Professor Stratton and his team), and its involvement in human breast and prostate cancer
Cabinet of Natural History
JBS Haldane on the role of disease in evolution (1949): sickle cell anaemia, ecology, evolutionary medicine, and feeding the world
Cambridge University Biological Society
CANCELLED !!! "Uncovering and Exploiting Chinks in Cancer's Armour" - CANCELLED !!!
Darwin College Lecture Series
Darwin and Human Society
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Discussion Group: Energy Policy and Security of Supply
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
Darwin in his time - and in ours
⚠️ Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org
MMP public and schools' events
The Maths of Diamonds, Race Fixing, Art Theft, and Professor Moriarty
⚠️ Admission to the lecture is free but by ticket only. Please visit the MMP website www.mmp.maths.org
Institute of Metabolic Science Seminars
Thyroid hormone transporter proteins: biology and insights from human disorders
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Water, health and sustainable development
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial
Arcadia Project Seminars
A Publisher's perspective on the Future of Academic Publishing in the Digital Era
⚠️ All welcome
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
SMARTLIFE: GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Cambridge University Biological Society
Parasites, people and policy: Infectious diseases and millenium development goals.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?
Cabinet of Natural History
Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth
Darwin College Lecture Series
Darwin in the Literary World
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update
⚠️ Please note change of venue
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
INTEGRATING ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONS
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainable Development - great green dream or impossible ambition?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Evolution From Malaria to Manuscripts
Cambridge University Biological Society
Forensic Genetics: application to crime scene investigation and the identification of human remains.
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Whether a creation-based religion can be consistent with science and evolution
⚠️ Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/RabbiWeinreb.mp3
Cabinet of Natural History
The ends of the earth: rearticulating the image of the poles in the age of polar aviation
Darwin College Lecture Series
Global Darwin
Genetics Seminar Series
Building bridges between genes, brains and language.
⚠️ http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
The role of engineering in entering the ecological age
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Unpredictability and Chance in Scientific Progress
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
ADAPTATION IN POOR COUNTRIES
Cambridge University Biological Society
All about stress in plants, from oxidative stress to programmed cell death.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - How metals can fall apart: Vision, observation and G I Taylor
Darwin College Lecture Series
Darwin's Intellectual Development
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B?
⚠️ Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Natural Ventilation and Low Energy Buildings
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
RETHINKING PERSONAL MOBILITY: POLICY, TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS THINKING
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"We know who you are, from the way you sound" Computer voice-recognition systems and what they can do
⚠️ This lecture is joint with the Cambridge Philosophical Society
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Cognitive Enhancement: Hope or Dope?
⚠️ FREE ADMITTANCE
Cabinet of Natural History
Responding to Darwin: The Reverend Thomas Stebbing (1835-1926), clergyman, naturalist and apologist
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Making of the Fittest
Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change
ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NECESSITIES AND PRIORITIES
Physics of Living Matter PLM6
DNA: Not just a double helix
Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series
Genetics of Cooperation and Competition in Chimpanzees
Physics of Living Matter PLM6
Physics of Living Matter 3
⚠️ registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you
Organic Chemistry
Finding the Needle in a Haystack and From Bathtubs to Pipes
MRC LMB Neurobiology Seminars
Neurobiology of the Drosophila circadian clock
Ecology Lunchtime Series
A child's eye view of the insect world
Cambridge Philosophical Society
ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells
⚠️ REGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
BIOFUELS – A VIABLE APPROACH TO CARBON REDUCTION?
CRASSH events
Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo
Axonal degeneration and repair: plasticity and stem cells
Cell replacement therapy in Parkinson's disease
Science meets Faith
The inevitable evolution of humans
CCLP
One Planet
Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars
Geotechnical Design of Gravity Support Structures for Offshore Wind Turbines
ARClub Talks
The Imprinted Brain Theory of Autism
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Making the invisible visible: the hidden history of families, schools, civil rights, media and science in the production of learning disabilities
Zoology Department - Tea Talks
Sex ratios and rarity in birds: an unhappy balance?
Cavendish Physical Society
Power to Choose: How the energy choices people make will change their lives.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Biophysical Studies of the Nervous System
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
Cabinet of Natural History
Food, fair weather and fields: fundamental change in Anglo-Saxon England
Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)
Fusion: The Technical Challenges
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEM
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
Understanding Environmental Risk Perceptions: Climate Change, Energy Choices and Public Engagement with Science
Cambridge University Physics Society
Particles and the Universe
Microsoft Research Computational Science Seminars
From Medical Images to Virtual Physiological Humans
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Extreme Natural Hazards
Cambridge University Biological Society
"Mysteries and Mechanisms of General Anaesthesia"
Cambridge Philosophical Society
All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others
Medieval Art Seminar Series
How Were Saints Translated? The Case for Westminster Abbey
Cabinet of Natural History
A botanical tour in Paris: botany, amateurship and communities of knowledge
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Was there Anything Before the Big Bang? Possibly!
⚠️ FREE ADMITTANCE
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Alternative means of harnessing solar energy
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Midwifery practices and the fate of mothers and infants in late eighteenth-century Denmark
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
“What goes round comes round” Making wind turbines from renewable materials
Cabinet of Natural History
Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?
ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society
A Small Problem? The Bioethics of Nanotechnology
Baha'i Awareness Week
Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change
Cambridge University Physics Society
Carbon-based semiconductors - new science, new engineering and new applications
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Intimate Relations: Human Evolution and Climatic Change
⚠️ Please note the change in venue and date! The talk is on Monday!
Cambridge University Biological Society
"Personal genomics, expectations and democracy"
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals
Cabinet of Natural History
New manuscript evidence for medieval Latin bestiary ownership and use
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Fireworks and Waterworks! Lecture & demonstration.
ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society
Peptide Design in Nanoscience and Synthetic Biology
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Computing for the Future of the Planet
MMP public and schools' events
Particle Hunting at CERN
⚠️ Open to the general public - suggested age range 16+
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Something’s come up": The Discovery of New Drugs, (including Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra)
Cabinet of Natural History
The early Soviet project of hybridising humans and apes
Festival of Ideas
Human Evolution: past, present and future
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible?
⚠️ All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org
Mordell Lectures
Geometric PDE
⚠️ The lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College from 7 p.m.
Tanner Lectures
What's Left of Culture and Society?
⚠️ For further information and free tickets, please call 01223 332368 email: tanner.admin@clarehall.cam.ac.uk
Festival of Ideas
Millennia of Colour Making
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900
The Hewish Lectures
Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Sustainable Energy - Without The Hot Air
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Picture perfect: from golden rules to golden boys
Cambridge University Biological Society
PhD or not PhD?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing
Festival of Ideas
Cambridge and the Meaning of Life
ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society
Will Feeding the World Kill the Planet?
Festival of Ideas
China: The World's Only Super-Power in the Late First Millennium
Festival of Ideas
Into the Unknown: Medieval Travellers, Real and Imaginary
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air
The Triple Helix Lecture Series
CAN WE BLAME OUR BRAINS? Neuroscience in the Courtroom
Public Understanding of Risk
How the Media Promote the Public Misunderstanding of Science
⚠️ Free Public Lecture. All Welcome!
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Intelligence and the Living Cell": Adaptive behaviour and decision-making by single cells
Cabinet of Natural History
Orford Ness: landscape of war and science
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Gods, Devils and Alcohol - Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature
⚠️ FREE ENTRY
The Triple Helix Lecture Series
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER? Exploring the impact of extreme ageing
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Larmor Lecture: "Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scale"
⚠️ This lecture is jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cambridge Initiative For Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Inaugural Meeting
Tissue Engineering of the Musculoskeletal System
⚠️ Register at www.cimte.orthopaedics.cam.ac.uk or turn up on the day
Cabinet of Natural History
The evolution of wonder
Cambridge Initiative For Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering Inaugural Meeting
Biomolecules in Tissue Engineering
⚠️ Register at www.cimte.orthopaedics.cam.ac.uk or turn up on the day
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Molecules of Murder
Institute of Astronomy Colloquia
The Dynamics of Saturn's F Ring
Horizon: Bioengineering
Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative
⚠️ registration is required for this event
Horizon: Bioengineering
Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system
⚠️ Medical Engineering (registration is required for this event)
Horizon: Bioengineering
Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications
⚠️ registration is required for this event
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
A Scientific Wine Tasting - The Maturation of Port and Madeira Wines
Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society
Energy Efficient Cities - An Integrated Approach to Achieving Low Carbon
Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society
Global Context of Energy Crisis
Genetics Seminar Series
"Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"
Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series
Laser Surface Authentication: Using Nature's own fingerprint to detect fraud
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
The Geometry of the Space of Shapes
⚠️ Hosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research)
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Clean Coal Technologies – towards a low carbon economy
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Case Studies III from the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Language as a Window Into Human Nature
⚠️ OPEN TO ALL: guest sign-in at the door
Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum
THE ARMOURERS AND BRASIERS’ CAMBRIDGE FORUM
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism
⚠️ Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm. Everyone is welcome.
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
How to learn and use a language
Genetics Seminar Series
"Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".
Getting in and out of mitosis
Getting in and out of mitosis
⚠️ The Hutchison Grad Student Society are hosting their annual talk. The speaker is the Nobel Prize Laureate Prof Tim Hunt.For further details contact Amel Saadi (as741@cam.ac.uk).
Cabinet of Natural History
Knowledge-making in southern New Zealand
Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks
Safe Ski Jump Landing Slopes
Isaac Newton Institute Distinguished Seminars
Maps and graphs on surfaces
⚠️ Institute distinguished event
Cabinet of Natural History
Triangulations: poetry, plants and politics in the late eighteenth century
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR
⚠️ LIMITED SPACES SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY
Rausing Lecture
Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power
⚠️ Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Statistics
Chance is a Fine Thing
⚠️ Inaugural Lecture as Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk
Cabinet of Natural History
Spaces of geography in early nineteenth-century Paris
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
ALL IN THE BEST POSSIBLE TASTE - THE SCIENCE OF FOOD & FLAVOUR
St John's Women's Society Talks
Changing Our World: Women and difference
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"I was nowhere near there at the time Guv - honest"
Cabinet of Natural History
Buffon and Martinet's Natural History of Birds (1765-1783): text, images and collections
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Microbial Bioenergy Production
⚠️ Note unusual day: Thursday, not Tuesday
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
STUDENT TALKS AND GRAND DISCUSSION
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
Chekhov’s poetic and social realism: poetry and politics on stage
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle
⚠️ This talk is open to everyone. Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the talk.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Cancer and the cell cycle
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
Possibilities and limitations of understanding
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
Are (human and other) animals rational?
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
International environmental governance
⚠️ Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist's workshop
Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?
Understanding in ancient and modern Number Theory
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
A CUEN LECTURE – wind energy turns to bamboo
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Has the Leopard Changed Its Spots? Is a New Biology Emerging?
ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society
Interdisciplinarity in Science
Cambridge University Biological Society
Can we trust biologists?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
www.Antibodies_Direct.com
The Triple Helix Lecture Series
Is Peer Review a Process in Ruins?: The Politics Behind Getting Your Paper Published
Cabinet of Natural History
Mary Read and Anne Bonny: two eighteenth-century pirates
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem
⚠️ Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainable Development at the Eden Project
Cambridge Science Festival
Wicken Fen: the science behind the vision
Cambridge Science Festival
Science and technology in international development
Cambridge Science Festival
Quirkology: weird psychology
Cambridge Science Festival
Happiness and heartbreak
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Not Mammoth Steaks Again?!
Cambridge Science Festival
Sex, drugs and rock & roll – life in forensic science
Cambridge Science Festival
Extreme Science
Cambridge Science Festival
The aviation heritage of East Anglia
Cambridge Science Festival
Learning from nature
Cambridge Science Festival
Hyenas and minervas: women, science and history
Cambridge Science Festival
Working at the speed of light: modern high power laser beams
Cambridge Science Festival
The secret life of your brain
Cambridge Science Festival
It’s about time
Cambridge Science Festival
The science of Doctor Who
Cambridge University Biological Society
The human genome as an RNA machine
Cambridge Science Festival
Smart drugs?
Cambridge Science Festival
Hidden in rock and frozen in time
Cambridge Science Festival
Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourism
Cambridge University Biological Society
Memories are made of this
Cambridge Science Festival
Sustainable energy - without the hot air
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Regulating Global Capitalism
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Carbon Footprinting: Industry, People, the Universe and Everything
Cambridge Science Festival
Acoustics and architecture
Cambridge University Biological Society
The early human occupation of Europe and Britain
Cambridge Science Festival
Preserve the old, but know the new
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
Student Papers and Grand Discussion
⚠️ Is our university a place of free thinking?
Cambridge Science Festival
Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops?
Cambridge Science Festival
The big experiment
Cambridge Philosophical Society
RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?
⚠️ NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME
Cabinet of Natural History
Saved by servitude: the display of horses at the Natural History Museum in London
Queens' College Politics Society
National and International Environmental Policy and Climate Change
Darwin College Lecture Series
Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Life and the Earth: interlocking histories
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
Are academics intellectuals?: a reading of Edward Said
⚠️ Is our university a place of free thinking?
Turkish-Armenian Relations. Facing History: Denial as a Security Concept
Turkish-Armenian Relations. Facing History: Denial as a Security Concept
Arrol Adam Lecture Series
The risk of terrorism
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing China
⚠️ Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org
Arcsoc Dutch
"SPACE FIGHTERS! What to do after KM3" Talk by Winy Maas
⚠️ Arrive early to guarantee a seat
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Why is the violin so hard to play?
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
Lapis Lazuli
Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series
The evolution of sinistral snails
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Nanoelectronics and Quantum Computing
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
Socrates and the invention of philosophical conversation
⚠️ Is our university a place of free thinking?
Cabinet of Natural History
Locating species identity: towards a biogeography of transgenic life
Darwin College Lecture Series
Cosmological Serendipity
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
The thought of poetry and its institutional discontents
⚠️ Is our university a place of free thinking?
ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society
Biofuelling the future?
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE - what do we know, how do we know it, and what should we do?
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainable Development in the Built Environment; Progress or Procrastination?
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
Freedom, Technology and Terror
⚠️ Is our university a place of free thinking?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Living with tsunamis: Sumatra and the Mediterranean
Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?
What use is a college education?
⚠️ Is our university still a place for free thinking?
Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series
Local protein synthesis at synapses
⚠️ Join us after the lecture for sandwiches and sushi
Cambridge University Biological Society
From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulation
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Unpredictability and chance in science and technology
⚠️ NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME
Cabinet of Natural History
Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project
Cambridge University International Development (CUID)
Burma: The Slow Death of a Nation
Darwin College Lecture Series
Serendipity as a Force in Physics
Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series
TALK CANCELLED: A clean start: the oocyte-to-embryo transition in C.elegans
Arrol Adam Lecture Series
Risk in Prisons
Arcsoc Dutch
BEN VAN BERKEL of UN STUDIO
⚠️ Arrive early to guarantee a seat. /visit arcsoc.com for details.
Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks
William Congdon, Views of Venice
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Whose risk? Whose choice? Whose health?
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Why do humans share food?
⚠️ Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the lecture at 6 pm. This talk is open to the general public.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Skin, scales and fins: Genetic Analysis of the Development of Adult Integumentary Organs in the Zebrafish
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Rebuilding the Colossus of the Modern World
Cabinet of Natural History
Distancing animals in medieval chronicles
⚠️ THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
EarthTalk
Darwin College Lecture Series
Serendipity in Political Life
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
The Economics of Climate Change: Governments, Companies and Households
⚠️ Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The role of statistical learning in early generative L2 grammars
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Should we use nuclear energy to tackle climate change?
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Creating a Better Place - the Environment Agency - and shaping sustainability
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Bell’s Theorem, Clifford’s Algebra, and Einstein’s Reality
Seminars on Sustainable Scenarios
Clean Power from Deserts - and other benefits too
Cabinet of Natural History
Gideon Mantell, Thomas Hardy, and the politics of geological knowledge
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life
Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series
Glial cells generate neurons - mechanisms of neurogenesis and neuronal repair
⚠️ Join us after the lecture for sandwiches and sushi in the Bateson Room
The Triple Helix Lecture Series
WHAT IF SCIENCE DOESN'T SAVE THE WORLD?: Energy Security in Crisis
Wolfson Press Fellowship
Climate change: the tipping point debate
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Climate change, peak oil, and the coming global energy crisis
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Science of Chocolate
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Journey of the Future
Cabinet of Natural History
Cartographies of a scientific county: mapping Cornwall
Darwin College Lecture Series
HIV and the Naked Ape
The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)
Cambridge University Energy Network - Nuclear Fusion lecture
Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series
The peppered moth: The proof of Darwinian evolution
Cambridge University Biological Society
(In collaboration with Trinity College Science Society) Lives in Science
The Triple Helix Lecture Series
RATIONING OFF THE NHS: Do Smokers and the Obese Deserve Second-Class Healthcare?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical oddities
⚠️ NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME
Cabinet of Natural History
Skulls, science and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museum’s cranial collection, 1869-1900
Darwin College Lecture Series
The Stratigraphy of Serendipity
Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series
Making neurons outside the stem cell niche
⚠️ Join us after the lecture for sandwiches and sushi in the Bateson Room
Arrol Adam Lecture Series
Be safe but starve, or eat but be eaten: how small decisions about risk have big consequences
Environment on the Edge Lecture Series
Travelling 1st class on the Titanic?
⚠️ Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
The challenges of managing the American foreign aid program post-9/11 in Pakistan and Afghanistan
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The necessity of consciousness: why human zombies would be an evolutionary dead end
Cambridge University Biological Society
Deadly companions - how microbes have shaped our history
Cabinet of Natural History
‘What is meant by this system?’ Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature
Darwin College Lecture Series
Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE ARCTIC - LOOKING NORTH: ARCTIC SCIENCE IN INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR, 2007-2008
⚠️ Please visit www.soci.org for updated details/late cancellation notification.
Plant Sciences Research Seminars
Mechanics of Plant and Fungal Movements: Traps, Slingshots, and Catapults
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Early-Modern Iberian Empires and the Scientific Revolution
⚠️ There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.
Millennium Mathematics Project
The Maths behind the Magic
⚠️ This lecture is fully booked. If you'd like to receive early notice of future lectures, please visit http://mmp.maths.org/events/eventlist.php to join our e-mail list. This is a low-volume e-mail list; usually only 1-2 e-mails are sent per term.
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
ARE WE STAR DUST OR NUCLEAR WASTE?
Institution of Structural Engineers
Rollercoaster Design
Technology Enterprise Group (TEG) Seminar Series
What makes a successful (Cambridge) start-up?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Water that does not wet hands
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
General Discussion Session
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Biological Engineering of Plant Systems
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Computational Design in Synthetic Biology
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
The iGEM competition: Building with biology
One day Meeting (Cambridge Philosophical Society): Synthetic Biology - Molecular Bioengineering for the 21st Century
Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30)
Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine
Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Computers and Illusion - from photography to computer vision
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroimaging
⚠️ There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.
Cambridge University Biological Society
Converting knowledge into treatments (Sex, drugs and frustration)
Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series
Drinking in the last chance saloon: what hope for 2° C?
Cabinet of Natural History
Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages
Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars
Climate change and the trillion-dollar millennium mathematics problem
Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)
Life at High Peclet Numbers
⚠️ Lunch will be provided after the seminar
ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)
Material, Energy and Climate Change
Evolution and Development Seminar Series
The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Imaging Methods in Tumour Therapy
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
Colours in Gemstones
Cambridge University Biological Society
What are imprinted genes doing in the brain: sex, polygamy and mental illness
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Lives and Letters (the Robert Hooke Portfolio)
Cambridge Assessment
Where did those come from? The hidden history of GNVQs
⚠️ Please email thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk to book a place
Cabinet of Natural History
The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology
Cambridge University United Nations Association (CUUNA)
The Future of the UN
⚠️ International Day of Tolerance
Ecology Lunchtime Series
Getting the Biggest Buck for the Bang: Conservation Management of Deer in New Zealand
Physics of Living Matter PLM6
Physics and the designs of brains
⚠️ Emerging properties of biological networks
Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks
Nuclear Power, Political Power and Tony Blair
Millennium Mathematics Project
Chance, Probability and Rankings: the Truth About League Tables
⚠️ This lecture is fully booked. If you'd like to receive early notice of future lectures, please visit http://mmp.maths.org/events/eventlist.php to join our e-mail list. This is a low-volume e-mail list; usually only 1-2 e-mails are sent per term.
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
The Sedgwick in the Galapagos
Generation to Reproduction Seminars
Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate
British Antarctic Survey
A recent subglacial volcanic eruption in West Antarctica
⚠️ Open to non-BAS; please contact Deb Shoosmith (drsho@bas.ac.uk or 221702) if you would like to attend.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)
⚠️ NOTE: New start time and New venue
Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
Cabinet of Natural History
'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s
Zangwill Club
Familiarity and recall in rats: memory for objects and events
⚠️ Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm
CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures
Generation of Electrical Power from Wind and Waves
Trinity College Science Society
DNA Self-Assembly and Molecular Machinery
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT !
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The physics of the Earth's interior
⚠️ HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE
CUES
Hurricane Simulator
Cambridge University Biological Society
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Ancient Vaults
Cabinet of Natural History
Practice and technique in the twentieth-century natural history museum
Chaucer Club
The cognitive neuroscience of the human voice
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
What Banged at the Big Bang
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
The Global Conservation Crisis
⚠️ A wine reception will follow the talk. Offered in collaboration with The City Seminar at CRASSH.
Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars
The Gastrophysics of Massive Galaxies
Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)
Specialisation in the Human Brain: The Case of Numbers
Cabinet of Natural History
'Peripheral vision': science and Creole patriotism in eighteenth-century Spanish America
Cambridge University Biological Society
(In collaboration with Trinity College Science Society) Small silencing RNA - the dark matter of genetics
Humanitarian events
Can floating gardens in Bangladesh combat climate change?
ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)
Sequestration of carbon from conventional fossil fuel power plants
Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series
Distributed intelligence in ants: how information is regulated through quorum sensing and teaching with evaluation.
Cambridge Zero Carbon Society
Panel Discussion on the UK Climate Bill
Tanner Lectures
Tanner Lecture: The Respondents
⚠️ Please note that this event is taking place at Robinson College. Registration for this event is not required (the main talk on 22 October is).
Cambridge University Biological Society
The Mystery of Intracellular Timers in Animal Development
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The invention of the High Power Microscope
⚠️ Celebrating Antony van Leeuwenhoek's 375th Birthday
The Triple Helix Lecture Series
Why Women are No Good at Science (and how science stops them from being good)
Tanner Lectures
Medicine, Neuroscience, Ethics and Society
⚠️ Important: Registration is required for Monday's talk given by Prof. Illes and Lord Winston. To register for tickets, please email Clare Hall's Alumni Officer at rw335@cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
The fascinating first year
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The History of the Universe in 60 minutes
BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication
Recognising Persons by their Iris Patterns: Technology, Anonymity, and the Liberal State [BlueSci / CUSP]
Sir David King's Surface Science Seminars
Spin Excitation Spectroscopy with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
⚠️ Dr. Eigler demonstrated for the first time the ability to build structures at the atomic level by spelling out "I-B-M" with individual xenon atoms.
Cambridge Philosophical Society
LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies
⚠️ NOTE: New start time and New venue
Cabinet of Natural History
Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain
Ecology Lunchtime Series
Happiness, Global Catastrophe, and the National Assembly for Wales
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
BEAGLE 2 AND BEYOND – THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION
ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)
Engineering for a Low Carbon Future: challenges and opportunities
Cabinet of Natural History
'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Book Launch of 'Cool it' - bestselling author Bjorn Lomborg's latest release
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Global Warming
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
DO ANIMALS HAVE MEMORIES OF TOMORROW?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?
⚠️ Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
BITING BACK AT BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTS
Physics - Educational Outreach
MRAO at 50: Observing the Origin and Evolution of the Universe from Cambridge
⚠️ This lecture is free and open to all but tickets are required: book on line at http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/mrao50/lecture.html
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Instrumentalism for historians and philosophers
Proteins, Genomes & Computers
The globins: we thought we understood them
⚠️ one-day computational biology meeting
Computational and Systems Biology
Computational genomics of structural RNAs
⚠️ CCBI Distinguished Seminar Series
MRC LMB Seminar Series
HIV assembly - is it the plasma membrane after all?
Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations
Experiences as an e-counting election observer
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Building better brains: the ethics of cognitive and affective enhancement
Museum of Zoology
Learning about tropical forests: a hands on approach
Craik Club
Decoding consciousness
British Antarctic Survey
Sustainable Energy - Without the BS
⚠️ Open to non-BAS; please contact Ryan Woodard (rywo@bas.ac.uk or 221383) if you would like to attend.
EMBL-EBI Science & Society
Biology and Language 2007: An EMBL-EBI Science & Society Symposium
HPS Philosophy Workshop
Supposing this and that
CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures
Mobile Micro- and Nano-Instruments
BSS Formal Seminars
Understanding Cell Mechanics: From Axonal Instabilities To Oscillating Fibroblasts
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Nuclear Fusion as a Global Energy Source? Work at UKAEA Culham Laboratory and elsewhere to harness fusion energy
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Take the Eurostar to Stratford...
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
"Actually you were' and I can prove it"
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
www.Antibodies_Direct.com The story of Abcam; selling antibodies on-line
Rausing Lecture
Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com
⚠️ The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture
Technology Enterprise Group (TEG) Seminar Series
Venture capital and the high technology market in Israel: How tiny Israel with no natural resources generates more technology start-ups then all of Western Europe combined
Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks
Accelerating Discovery: A Grand Challenge for HCI
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
10 Years of Biotech Crops: Global Economic and Environmental Impacts
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
BACK TO THE FUTURE - TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT REVISITED
⚠️ Free & open to all
Technology Enterprise Group (TEG) Seminar Series
TEG Seminar Series 2007: Professor Gordon Murray
Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual
Plato and Aristotle on why an intellectual life is even better than a moral one
⚠️ The Place of the Intellectual
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Mending Broken Hearts: replacing damaged cardiac muscle; the MAGIC programme
Cabinet of Natural History
Setting eyes on the holy: the description of sacred sites in accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the medieval school of seeing, 12th-15th century
Technology Enterprise Group (TEG) Seminar Series
TEG Seminar Series 2007: Professor David Evans
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Quasars and Radio Galaxies - the most powerful sources of radio waves in the universe
Mordell Lectures
Acoustical Spacetime Geometry and Shock Formation
Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual
Intellectuals, oil, and violence
⚠️ The Place of the Intellectual
Semitic Philology Lecture
The South Arabian Origin of Ethiosemitic
⚠️ The Annual Semitic Philology Lecture
Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual
A scientific approach to the nature of ethics
⚠️ The Place of the Intellectual
Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)
Why are humans the only species to have language?
Cambridge University United Nations Association (CUUNA)
UN: necessary, or UNnecessary? -Beyond scarcity: power, poverty and the global water crisis
⚠️ Free Food and Drinks to be provided at 16:30. Free UN books, publications, bags, white bands, New World magazines, and other UN material will also be available at the event.
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Sustainable Development
Clare Hall Talks
Clare Hall Ashby Lecture: 'Happiness and Values'
⚠️ This lecture is free and open to all
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
GM Crops - There are a lot of them About!
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System
Cabinet of Natural History
Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Why sustainable development might be bad for the environment
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
C++0x as a New Language
Occasional Talks in Biochemistry
Fourplay with DNA: I-tetraplexes and structural DNA nanotechnology
Cambridge Science Festival
The 27km machine and the building blocks of the Universe
Cambridge Science Festival
The Scale of Science Panel Discussion
Cambridge Science Festival
Who Do You Think You Are?
Cambridge Science Festival
It's a Gas!
Cambridge Science Festival
Cabaret: Science of Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll
Cambridge Science Festival
Science and Religion
Cambridge Science Festival
The Truth About Food
Cambridge Science Festival
The Silent Aircraft Initiative
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Comic Relief Charity Concert
⚠️ Songs for Cynical Scientists (and Non-Scientists!)
Cambridge Science Festival
Science in the Real World and Stem Cell Science
Cambridge Science Festival
The Importance of Being Peripheral
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
A new sustainable way of life - the sine qua non of human development ? CANCELLED
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
From 1822 Until Today - Technology of Photography
Thinking Society: What is Life?
What is Music? What is Life? and other unanswerable questions
⚠️ What is Life?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'
Cabinet of Natural History
"Linnaean traditions? School botany and biological recording"
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
SciEnts Cocktail Party
Darwin College Lecture Series
SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS
Thinking Society: What is Life?
Self-discipline as a way of life: Why would anyone eat only fruits and vegatables?
⚠️ What is Life?
Scott Lectures
A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice: cold atomic gases meet solid state physics
Thinking Society: What is Life?
Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life?
⚠️ What is Life?
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
One Planet Living
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
The Visual and the Visceral: Pornography and Sanctity, Modern and Medieval
Scott Lectures
Optics with laser-like atom waves
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Scisoc 2007 Annual General Meeting
Thinking Society: What is Life?
Incorporating Life into Philosophy: Dilthey, Bergson and Heidegger
⚠️ What is Life?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Eternal Triangle: Science, Propaganda and Disease Control; the facts behind the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic
Scott Lectures
Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping
⚠️ Refreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer
Cabinet of Natural History
Mineralogy, Stratigraphy and Practical Geology: Shifting tensions in the Geological Society of London, 1807-1840
Darwin College Lecture Series
IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
Can we quantify sustainability ?
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
What do genes mean?
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them
Cabinet of Natural History
The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Dinosaurs from Mongolia
Darwin College Lecture Series
IDENTITY AND THE MIND
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
When the Rivers Run Dry
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Web 2.0
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Drug discovery: how Academia can Contribute
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
Evolution in the giant marine reptiles of the Mesozoic
Cambridge University Biological Society
Stem cell biology: hype and reality
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Calving of Larson-B and other phenomena: Climate Change in the Antarctic
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Thomas Young: the last man who knew everything
Cabinet of Natural History
"Ritual Patricide: Why Stephen Jay Gould Assassinated His Idol"
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
EarthTalk
Darwin College Lecture Series
IDENTITY AND THE LAW
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Religious and Scientific Belief
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?
Cambridge University Biological Society
From antibody inventions to start-up companies and blockbuster therapeutics
Cabinet of Natural History
Alchemy and natural history
Darwin College Lecture Series
MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY
10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012
The promise of energy biosciences
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
Managing China's Rise
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Avian 'Flu - The origin of SARS and the impact of avian influenza H5N1 upon mammals and wild birds
Cabinet of Natural History
Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in twentieth century natural history publishing
Darwin College Lecture Series
IDENTITY OF MEANING
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Arrested and developing embryos as a source for stem cells
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Privacy and Identity - System Engineering and the Database State
Cambridge Philosophical Society
G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids
Cambridge University Biological Society
Mission Possible: Defeating the silent killer
Cabinet of Natural History
Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world
Darwin College Lecture Series
VISUALISING IDENTITY
Gates Distinguished Lecture Series
To Boldly Go. My Life in Physics.
⚠️ To reserve a place email GatesHawking@gmail.com
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Science and Ethics of Stem Cells
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
Death , destruction and evolution of sea-shells
Cambridge University Biological Society
Taking the stink out of instinct
Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks
"The role of scientists in a dangerous world"
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
A Stitch in Time: The molecular Basis of DNA repair
⚠️ joint meeting with Cambridge Philosophical Society
Cabinet of Natural History
Geological deluge and snowball Earth
Darwin College Lecture Series
MUSICAL IDENTITY
Craik Club
Craik Club Christmas Lecture: Selective attention, multisensory integration and spatial neglect
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Evolution lecture : Darwin's Dilemma - The Burgess Shale and The Cambrian Explosion
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
THE CHEMISTRY OF CHRISTMAS - an exciting practical demonstration lecture
Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Discussion
Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Nuclear fission and fusion
Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Tide, Wave, and Offshore Wind
Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Biofuels
Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Carbon Sequestration
Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Transition from Fossil Fuels
Sustainable Energy - One-day Meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Big Picture
Thinking Society: General and Particular
Student papers and Grand Discussion
⚠️ Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience
Cambridge University Biological Society
Protein folding, misfolding and disease
Cabinet of Natural History
Tropical invalids: climate and culture in nineteenth-century British natural history
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Can Science be Communicated through the Media?
Thinking Society: General and Particular
The death of theorising?
⚠️ Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
MIXING CHEMICALS AND CHARACTERS: The craft of writing science-based fiction
Thinking Society: General and Particular
Varieties of theory in modern America
⚠️ Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
Preservation of Burgess-Shale-type fossils: implications for early animal evolution
Cambridge University Biological Society
Francis Crick's place in history
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Children of Eve: Exon Sequencing; identifying variation in the human genome
Cabinet of Natural History
Divine design arguments in the eighteenth century
Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars
Chloroplast DNA - the case of the vanishing genome
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Careers in Science
Thinking Society: General and Particular
Process or cultural relativism in prehistory?
⚠️ Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system
Cambridge University Biological Society
Influenza virus membrane glycoproteins in virus replication and variation
Cabinet of Natural History
More like apes than angels: natural history and the political economy of David Hume and Adam Smith
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
The Exploitation of Micro- and Nanotechnologies
Cambridge University Biological Society
Sleepfaring: A journey through the science of sleep
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Mother Nature Knows Best: Making Heat-Stable Vaccines
Cabinet of Natural History
R.A. Fisher: a faith fit for eugenics
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Spectacular Chemistry Lecture & Demonstration - Thunder & Lightning !
Cambridge Philosophical Society
HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Cracking the Cipher Challenge
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
The Cambrian explosion: as mysterious as ever?
Early Science and Medicine
The renaissance tomato, from botanical curiosity to culinary condiment
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The life habits of the trilobites
Cabinet of Natural History
Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950
⚠️ Note: This seminar will start at 12.30
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Evolution of the Middle Ear
Cambridge University Biological Society
Malaria: from science to action
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Soft Small and Interesting - Soft Matter: towards Soft Nanotechnology
Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars
Military falcons
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
History of Science : Gaiters and gunpowder - the extraordinary story of Richard Watson, professor of chemistry and bishop.
SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society
Modelling Life - How Quantum Mechanics can Help us Understand Biology
Friends of the Sedgwick Museum
Why study the Burgess Shale? Memories from the 1966-7 expeditions
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture
⚠️ Note unusual time and venue
Cabinet of Natural History
Botany, empire, religion and collecting in early nineteenth-century north India
Cambridge University Biological Society
Why intelligent design is for stupid people
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Colision Course - How Science is abused by the Media
Cabinet of Natural History
The strange tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hunter: the social and professional life of naturalist John Hunter (1728-1793)
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Lonesome George: The life and loves of a conservation icon
Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum
Magnetic Materials: Where are the limits?
⚠️ THE EIGHTH KELLY LECTURE
Imaging and Mathematics
Breaking the Resolution Limit in Light Microscopy
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Looking inside a star (and other stories) - Developments in Radio Astronomy made here in Cambridge
Cambridge University Biological Society
Nobel Laureate Talk - John Walker
Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars
Pleasurable Kingdom: Animals and the nature of feeling good
Cabinet of Natural History
Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation
⚠️ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
Art & Authenticity - Science in the fight against art forgery
Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments
To be confirmed
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
An Alternative to the Infernal Combustion engine.? - Modern Fuel Cells
Cabinet of Natural History
Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's "Natural History and Theory of the Heavens"
⚠️ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars
Saviours and vermin: the shifting status of rats in history
Cabinet of Natural History
The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics and anatomy in the late seventeenth century
⚠️ All are welcome - feel free to bring your lunch
Modern Greek Lecture Series
Richard M. Dawkins - a pioneer in the field of Modern Greek folktales
Mordell Lectures
Ergodic theorems along polynomials: from combinatorial applications to challenges for physicists
⚠️ The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. in St John's College gardens.
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Obesity and Modern Humans - Diet, lifestyle or simply in our genes?
Major Public Lectures in Cambridge
Human Evolution: what can be known?
⚠️ Public Lecture - All Welcome
Cambridge University Biological Society
Biological Computation: The Machinery of the Cell - Nobel Laureate Talk
⚠️ Note venue is the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Chemistry department
SCI Cambridge Science Talks
An introduction to Molecular Gastronomy - Why do we like some foods and hate others ?
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Defence research: Changing world, changing priorities (R&D in the MoD)
Tarner Lectures
Objects and the Scientific Self II: Wastelands and Wilderness
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE
Tarner Lectures
Objects and the Scientific Self I: What Machines Demand of Us
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Antibiotics are no substitute for good hygiene - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; the importance of hospital cleanliness and practices
Tarner Lectures
Images, Objects and the Scientific Self: Picturing Objectivity
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVING LONGER
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Antibiotics, 75 years on - New antibiotics, using genes cloned from Streptomyces species
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Inositol: evolution's favourite molecule?
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVING DISEASE
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Just print me another computer, will you? - The world of plastic electronics
Scott Lectures
New Ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology: Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVAL OF CULTURE
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Hush, here comes an aircraft! - The Silent Aircraft Initiative
Darwin College Lecture Series
SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Evolution of the Earth
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Receiving you, Loud and Clear - Digital radio, and its future in the UK
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Faster than the speed of sound - The M52 -the worlds first supersonic aircraft
Cambridge Philosophical Society
The Free Will Theorem
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
Eve, Uncovered - Sequencing the human X-chromosome
Cambridge Philosophical Society
Our Dynamic Sun
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The eyes: gateway to the soul? - Iris Recognition Technology
Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)
The Larmor Lecture: Epidemiology - where are the limits?
Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers
This House believes that the European Union is bad for Britain
Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers
Robert Frisk
Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers
Sir Jeremy Greenstock
Cambridge Union Society - Debates and Speakers
This House would rather warm up the planet than cool down the economy.
Scott Lectures
Unification, Supersymmetry, and the Family Problem
Mordell Lectures
The Ramanujan Conjecture and its generalizations
⚠️ The lecture will be followed by a reception from 6.30 p.m. at the Trinity bowling green (Nevile's Court cloisters if wet).
Mordell Lectures
Polynomials in Discrete Mathematics
Mordell Lectures
Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms
⚠️ The lecture will be followed by drinks in Pavilion E Common Room
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