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14 upcoming talks and 4496 talks in the archive.

Cambridge Natural History Society

History of Natural History: Contributions from some Cambridge scientific giants of the 19th century

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

UserCNHS President and a former President of Cambridge Philosophical Society.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2026, 18:45-20:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The birth of scientific anti-racism

Please note earlier time

UserJenny Reardon (UC Santa Cruz).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2026, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Peer review, past, present… and future

UserProfessor Aileen Fyfe FRSE, FRHistS, FHEA, University of St Andrews.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 16 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Coffee with Scientists

Research on research

UserSteven Wooding (Head of Research on Research, Research Strategy Office).

HouseBoard Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 13 March 2026, 11:00-12:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Sex as a process

UserPaul E. Griffiths (University of Sydney & Macquarie University).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

So friggin' likely: a public choice analysis of bureaucratic science

UserEric Winsberg (University of Cambridge & University of South Florida).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

AI revolution! At whose cost? Towards environmental AI ethics

UserMilena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2026, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What is Digital Identity all about?

UserProfessor Jon Crowcroft FRS. Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 02 March 2026, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

2026 Scott Lectures: 2D van der Waals materials for spintronics

UserProf Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics).

HouseRay Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2026, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CANCELLED .....CSAR lecture: Finding common ground

UserProfessor Ruchi Choudhary, Professor of Digital Civil Engineering, Dept. of Engineering, Cambridge University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 23 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Hearing Her Voice: Women musicians in Vienna 1900

UserDr Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 20 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Permission to know

UserJessie Munton (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 12 February 2026, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Mental healing and altered states in 20th-century China

UserLuis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2026, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Illuminating the Future: The Transformative Power of Laser Materials Processing in Science, Engineering, Art and Design

UserProf Bill O’Neill FREng, FInstP, FLIA, FIAPLE, Director of the Centre for Industrial Photonics, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 09 February 2026, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Songs We Grow By

UserDr Ibrahim Baltagi, Lebanese American University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 06 February 2026, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Throat-Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place

UserDr Carole Pegg, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 30 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Notes and noises in nature: not a swan song?

UserProfessor Hans Slabbekoorn, Leiden University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 23 January 2026, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Christ and the mangrove: theology and botany in early modern Brazil

UserThomas Banbury (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Biblio-botany: early modern gardens in print and material culture

UserLiz White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Coffee with Scientists

Vaccine communication and policy

UserKatie Attwell (University of Western Australia).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 21 November 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Lecture: Biopharmaceutical Development - The Journey from Molecule to Medicine

UserProfessor Nicholas Darton, Associate Director of Biopharmaceutical Development at AstraZeneca, Honorary Professor of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at the University of Nottingham.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 17 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Who was Henslow?

UserKate Hooper (Independent Researcher).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Putting the β€œS” into mechanics

UserProfessor Keith Seffen. Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 November 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Revealing the artists’ secrets: combining humanities with science

UserProfessor Erma Hermens, Hamilton Kerr Institute for Easel Painting Conservation; Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 03 November 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies

UserProfessor Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2025, 18:00-19:00

Mary Hesse Lecture

How scientific plurality and sociality enhance scientific objectivity

Second Annual Mary Hesse Lecture

UserHelen Longino (Stanford University).

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Artificial Intelligence in Radiotherapy

UserProfessor Raj Jena, Clinical Professor, Data Science & Machine Learning in Radiotherapy, University of Cambridge Department of Oncology.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 20 October 2025, 19:30-21:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction

UserAvey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Past and Future of Natural History

UserChief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Buzzing of Bees: Tales of Honeybees Through History

Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Beekeepers' Association (NB Wednesday)

UserDino Martins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

UserProfessor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00

Coffee with Scientists

Science advice under uncertainty

UserAmy Orben (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 13 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

Rausing Lecture

But why here? Space technologies, the logic of location, and the violence of infrastructure

Twenty-Ninth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserAsif Siddiqi (Fordham University).

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 05 June 2025, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserMichael Diamond-Hunter (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2025, 13:00-14:30

Coffee with Scientists

TheCultureLab

UserHelene Scott-Fordsmand (Clare Hall & HPS, Cambridge) and Anatolii Kozlov (Science & Technology Studies, UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 30 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

UserProfessor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Notions of entropy in ergodic theory and representation theory

UserTim Austin (Warwick).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

UserDr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 28 April 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 106th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseCommon Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockSaturday 19 April 2025, 11:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural Materials for Musical Instruments

Please note the start time, being after the AGM, is approximate.

UserJim Woodhouse, CNHS President; Emeritus Professor of Structural Dynamics.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 March 2025, 18:45-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

UserProfessor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: AI in Manufacturing

UserProfessor Sebastian Pattinson, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 10 March 2025, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Paradise lost: fashioning the East Indies aboard a VOC ship in 1623

UserAlexander van Dijk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

UserProfessor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

Group selection and Ronald Fisher

UserRobert Asher (Associate Professor and Curator, University Museum of Zoology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 07 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Unnecessary sleep: opium, the trial of Ann, and the therapeutic dilemma of slavery

Cambridge Lecture in the History of Medicine

UserKeith Wailoo (Princeton University).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Exploring quantum computing frontier with programmable atom arrays

Refreshments will be served after the lecture

UserProfessor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

HouseRay Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

2025 Scott Lectures - Lecture 1 New field of quantum science and engineering

Drinks and nibbles will be served after the lecture

UserProfessor Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University.

HouseRay Dolby Auditorium, Ray Dolby Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0US.

ClockMonday 03 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

UserDr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A polar conversation: studying the histories of the Arctic and Antarctic

UserJustine Holzman (Princeton University) and Amelia Urry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

UserSandi Toksvig OBE.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Great Fen: progress on the peat

UserHenry Stanier, Monitoring & Research Officer at the BCN Wildlife Trust.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 18:45-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Time, science and empire: cosmography and navigation in the Iberian monarchies in the 16th century

UserLeonardo Ariel CarriΓ³ Cataldi (French National Centre for Scientific Research).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

The evolution of sentience

UserNicholas Humphrey (Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of Economics).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 14 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Science as communication

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

UserProfessor Sander L. van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 10 February 2025, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

UserDr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

To Bend or to Break? β€” new views on the hardening of metals

UserProfessor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy).

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 03 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

UserProfessor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Geological disposal of our radioactive waste legacy.

UserProfessor Neil Hyatt is Chief Scientific Adviser to Nuclear Waste Services, Aegis Professor of Deep Time at The University of Bristol.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 02 December 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Tropical Butterflies: using museum collections to study changes in biodiversity

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserTiffany Ki, Henslow Research Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 28 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A domino theory of disease

UserHarriet Fagerberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Signals from the beginning of the universe

UserProfessor Jo Dunkley OBE, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Future-proofing the Fens

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserLaurie Friday, Cambridge Centre for Landscape Regeneration.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Is recycling just a load of rubbish?

UserDr. Claire Barlow, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 18 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Studying Speciation in the Small Ermine Moths (Yponomeuta)

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserNathan Clark.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

What does 'achromatic' mean? Refractions on the construction of early achromatic telescope lenses

Anita McConnell Lecture

UserMichael Korey (Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon of the Dresden State Art Collections).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 14 November 2024, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it?

UserProfessor Ewan St John Smith, Professor of Nociception, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Plant Collecting in Kyrgyzstan

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserKathryn Bray, Senior Horticulturist, CU Botanic Garden.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A beep in the dark: 120 years of midwife toads in Great Britain

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSteve Allain, the Pop Punk Herpetologist, ARU .

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 31 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Global Warming in the Arctic

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserColin and Christine Lang.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Mary Hesse Lecture

In praise of the inexact, the inelegant and the unassuming

First Annual Mary Hesse Lecture in the Philosophy and History of Science

UserNancy Cartwright (Durham University, and University of California, San Diego).

HouseOld Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Celebrating the contribution of viral sequencing to the COVID-19 pandemic response.

UserProfessor Sharon Peacock, Professor of Public Health and Microbiology, University of Cambridge; Director and Chair of the COVID-19 Genomics UK (COG-UK) consortium.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 21 October 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Finding W H Hudson β€” the writer who came to Britain to save birds

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserConor Jameson, writer and naturalist.

HouseSeminar Room, James Dyson Building, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 17 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries

UserProfessor Lisa Hall FRSC CBE, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife, or, Why are there so many species?

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email mailings [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 10 October 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Segmenting the biological causes of hearing loss

UserProfessor Karen P. Steel PhD, FMedSci, FRS, Wolfson Sensory, Pain and Regeneration Centre, King's College London.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 10 June 2024, 19:30-21:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology and interconnection in Southeast Asia's longue durΓ©e

Twenty-Eighth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSuzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 30 May 2024, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Physics IS Enhancing Machine Learning

UserDr Alice Cicirello, Data, Vibration and Uncertainty Group, Department of Engineering.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 May 2024, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Gerd Buchdahl, Kantian philosopher of science

UserNick Jardine (History and Philosophy of Science) and Angela Breitenbach (Philosophy).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wicken Fen: 125 Years of Conservation

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserAjay Tegala.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 May 2024, 19:15-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Ramsey theory: searching for order in chaos

UserRob Morris (IMPA Rio).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 02 May 2024, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: What to do about plastics?

UserProfessor Jonathan Cullen, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jungius and Leibniz on textiles and texture in the 17th century

UserMichael Freidman (Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moth Trapping in Cambridge

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

What and Where I Record

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Phenology in the Botanic Garden

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserRosemary Fricker.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 March 2024, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Picking raspberries with robots.

UserProfessor Martin Fodstad StΓΈlen, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences/Fieldwork Robotics Ltd..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 04 March 2024, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Otters – in Cambridgeshire

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserPeter Pilbeam.

HouseMeeting Room (Second Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Is AI generated art really art?

UserMilena Ivanova (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Indonesia, Alfred Wallace and Krakatoa

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserOlwen Williams.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Habitat associations of British butterflies and their foodplants: implications for conservation

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Early Science and Medicine

Cultures of curiosity in Polish/Royal Prussia, 1650–1760

UserKatarzyna PΔ™kacka-Falkowska (Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollinator Conservation – and your Lawn

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UserMorgan Morrison, Researcher, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 08 February 2024, 18:45-20:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Skin colour assessment in the age of biological diversity

UserAna Carolina Vimieiro (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: A multi-cancer early detection test - TBC

UserProfessor Mark Middleton, University of Oxford Department of Oncology; Cancer Research UK Oxford Centre.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 05 February 2024, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity and Geology in Peru

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UserMorag Hunter.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

UserSir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Health of the Cam

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UserStephen Tomkins.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 23 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fieldwork: A Dendrochronologist's perspective of Science, Life and Adventure

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UserPaul Krusic.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lifecycle of a constant: e

UserAlistair Isaac (University of Edinburgh).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Biodiverse City

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UserGuy Belcher, Biodiversity Officer Cambridge City Council.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 18:45-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Where inattention pays

UserJingyi Wu (London School of Economics).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserDr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Climate Crisis and Atolls in the South Pacific

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UserLiam Saddington.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 November 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Social prescribing - beyond pills

UserProfessor Sir Sam Everington, Bromley by Bow Health Partnership, Tower Hamlets.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Embodied knowledge: riding Ottoman horses in Renaissance Italy

This seminar starts at 12noon

UserMarissa Smit-Bose (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees on Farms: investigating the conservation benefits of agroforestry

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UserWill Simonson, Organic Research Centre.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Lineages as evolving processes

UserJohn DuprΓ© (University of Exeter).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockThursday 26 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

User Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

People Power for Nature

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UserPete Exley, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 19 October 2023, 19:30-21:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why we shouldn't democratise science

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Swallowtails - keeping them safe at home and abroad

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UserMark Collins, Swallowtail & Birdwing Butterfly Trusts.

HouseMain Seminar Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Developments in neuroscience (TBC)

UserProfessor Jack Price, Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience. King’s College London.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 12 June 2023, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

UserDr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Technology eats history: time and techno-metabolism in the Anthropocene

Twenty-Seventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPaul N. Edwards (Stanford University).

HouseThe Frankopan Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

UserDr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

UserDr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Light, sight and the wonders of the eye…. with a focus on the lens

UserProf. Barbara Pierscionek, Medical Technology Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 15 May 2023, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

UserAad van der Vaart (Delft).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Expertise as perspectives in dialogue

UserMichael Larkin, Lisa Bortolotti, Michele Lim (University of Birmingham).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockThursday 04 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

UserDr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 104th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 15 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Cool as a caterpillar

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UserEsme Ashe-Jepson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 30 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lost Chalk Streams of Newmarket and Cambridge

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UserKevin Hand, CNHS Vice-President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 23 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Climate Stories from Yew Trees

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UserTatiana Bebchuk.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

UserProfessor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Churches, Churchyards and Cemeteries

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UserJonathan Shanklin, Vice-County Recorder for Cambridgeshire..

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

UserProfessor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish

UserDr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire OcΓ©anologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The adolescent brain

UserProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 06 March 2023, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Moths

NOTE: Room changed, from King's to Geography

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 18:45-20:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

UserDr Marie Manceau (College De France).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

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

UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Extra-illustrating natural history in early modern England

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The nuns and the apothecary: transatlantic collecting in the eighteenth century

CANCELLED

UserLynn Berry (Open University).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 20 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Reconstructing Past Abrupt Climate Change in Patagonia

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserJoshua Pike.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 16 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

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

UserProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

In Search of Wild Tulips

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrett Wilson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Advanced Raman Spectroscopy and Emerging Applications

UserProfessor Pavel Matousek, Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell, UK..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Preadamites on Ambon in the 1680s

UserJan Becker (European University Institute).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 06 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting todayΒ΄s extinction crisis

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

HouseVia Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

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

UserProfessor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

UserFrederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of TΓΌbingen).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 30 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

UserProf Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

User Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

UserRenske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

UserElisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserContributing Authors.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

UserTom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

UserFabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserPaula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

ClockMonday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserHarriet Allen, President CNHS.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

UserProf Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Re-enacting past experiments: how and why

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

22 years of Demonstration and Research for Nature-friendly Farming

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserGeorgie Bray, RSPB.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture - Where do we do go next with antimicrobial resistance?

UserProf. Stephen Baker, Cambridge Inst. for Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 17 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Archives of Cambridge Natural History Society

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserMonica Frisch, CNHS Archivist.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

UserKatrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'The Great Kanto Earthquake' and 'Doctors, patients and the two languages'

UserManabu Akagawa and Akihito Suzuki (University of Tokyo).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2022, 09:00-10:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

What midges can tell us about past environments

Admission Free

UserStefan Engels, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site (NOT Dept Geography).

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR lecture: Are we alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Harnessing cancer patients’ own immune system to control disease.

UserProfessor Ann Ager, Professor of Cellular Immunity and Immunotherapy, Cardiff University.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 May 2022, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

UserDr Dorit Hockman.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

When do statistics provide evidence for discrimination by police? A causal approach

UserNaftali Weinberger (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU Munich).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Aztec botany and natural history in the 16th century (1552–1580)

UserOsiris SinuhΓ© GonzΓ‘lez Romero (University of Saskatchewan).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Environing technologies – shaping, seeing, sense-making

Twenty-Sixth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSverker SΓΆrlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Main Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Alhazen's Perspectiva legacy in science and art

UserNader El-Bizri (American University of Beirut).

HouseArts School Lecture Theatre A.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 17:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What empirical network analysis could offer to Integrated HPS

UserCatherine Herfeld (University of Zurich).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Imitation as innovation: recasting the history of technology in modern Korea

UserHyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology; Needham Research Institute).

HouseHopkinson Lecture Theatre and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 April 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Truffles in a warming world

Part of the Cambridge Festival - free admission

UserUlf BΓΌntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 March 2022, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fenland Flora

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UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserOrganised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

How many butterflies are there in the Western Palaearctic?

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UserMartin Davies.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

UserProfessor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing .

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 March 2022, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

UserProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Measuring and Monitoring Surface Melting on an Antarctic Ice Shelf

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UserRebecca Dell, Scott Polar Institute.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

UserLaure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Learning (to learn) from others

UserRichard Moore (University of Warwick).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

On the nonexistence of moralometers

UserEric Schwitzgebel (University of California, Riverside).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational waves: space-time mavericks in the cosmos.

UserProfessor Alberto Vecchio PhD, FRAS, Professor of Astrophysics, Director of the Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Global actuarial science in the making of the universal healthcare system in the Republic of China, 1935–2010

Please note this seminar takes place on a Monday

UserWayne Soon (Vassar College).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 07 March 2022, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

UserProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lower Wood

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UserDuncan Mackay.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

When models migrate: the epistemic pitfalls of model transfer

UserAxel Gelfert (Technische UniversitΓ€t Berlin).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-kevin-brindle-tickets-260329090317

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

UserDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Peatbogs

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UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive, Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Epistemic bunkers

UserKatherine Furman (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules of life

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-richard-henderson-tickets-260346963777

UserProfessor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

UserMr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Using Sound to Study the Behaviour of Wild Wolves, Coyotes and Jackals

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UserArik Kershenbaum.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The news from Glozel: media, scandal and the making of French archaeology, ca. 1927

CANCELLED

UserDaniel J. Sherman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

CANCELLED

UserTracey Loughran (University of Essex).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Should we Automate?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-duncan-mcfarlane-tickets-250023506037

UserProfessor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Fenland Flora

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UserOwen Mountford, Fenland Flora project.

Housevia zoom .

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

UserDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Photographing the Wonders of the Insect World

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UserAnn Miles.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

UserMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Bird Room at the Museum of Zoology

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UserDaniel Field.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 19:30-20:45

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Bio in the 21st Century

UserSir Prof. Richard Henderson FRS | 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

What's in a name? William Jones, 'philological empiricism' and botanical knowledge making in 18th-century India

UserMinakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 31 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

UserProfessor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

** Audience Choice **

The choice will be made by participants' vote at the start of the meeting.

UserJonathan Shanklin.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 19:30-20:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Exhibiting imperial entanglements in science museums

UserEleanor S. Armstrong (Stockholm University / University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction

UserAyah Nuriddin (Princeton University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Next-Generation Solar Photovoltaics

UserDr. Sam Stranks, Chemical Eng. & Biotechnology/Cavendish Lab.

HouseLocation: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 24 January 2022, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

UserProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Convention on Biodiversity and conservation in the Caribbean

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UserEllie Devenish-Nelson and Howard Nelson.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 02 December 2021, 19:30-20:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Ways of worldfaking

CANCELLED

UserBoaz Miller (Zefat Academic College).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'She's wearing it!' Gender, tinkering, and the design of hearing aids

UserJaipreet Virdi (University of Delaware).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Early detection of cancer: learning from the oesophagus, or how long is a piece of string?

UserProfessor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention and Interim Director at the MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The launch of the online NatHistFest

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UserCNHS Members.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Causal explanation and revealed preferences

UserKate Vredenburgh (London School of Economics).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-by-professor-sadaf-farooqi-tickets-188170812967

UserProfessor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tasting the past, or the fallacy of historical accuracy

Online only

UserMarieke M.A. Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A Trillion Trees - A trillion reasons to thrive!

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UserApril Bagwill.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Climate storylines and managing uncertainty

UserMathias Frisch (Leibniz University Hannover).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Technoscience in the tropics: public agricultural research and environmental imaginaries in Brazil

UserRyan Nehring (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Deep AI Research in Health and Life Sciences

UserDr. Kenji Takeda, Director of Academic Health and AI Partnerships, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

ClockMonday 15 November 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chemical warfare (and co-operation) in the garden

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UserGwenda Kyd, Author.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing

UserJacob Stegenga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Philosophy for anatomists: Francis Glisson and the peculiar fits of irritable matter

UserGuido Giglioni (University of Macerata).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lecture-professor-giulia-viggiani-infrastructure-geotechnics-tickets-188169037657

UserProfessor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Biodiversity of the Hobson's Brook corridor

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UserDr Steve Boreham.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 19:30-20:45

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Tracing scientific instrument makers: the importance of researching the actual objects they made or sold

McConnell Lecture

UserGloria Clifton (Emeritus Curator, National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/honorary-fellows-lecture-professor-sir-david-spiegelhalter-frs-obe-tickets-188164062777

UserProfessor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2021, 18:30-19:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Cultural groups, essentialism, and ontic risk

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art and Knowledge

Special session, 10am, online only

UserMaree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney, Fran Edmonds (University of Melbourne).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 10:00-11:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Mismatched filiations: the family in German colonial surveys on indigenous law (c. 1910)

UserAnna EchterhΓΆlter (University of Vienna).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-v-hill-lecture-professor-wolfram-schultz-tickets-181588946427

UserProfessor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Environment and Empire... in the museum': Cambridge and the platypus

UserCharlotte Connelly (The Polar Museum), Jack Ashby (University Museum of Zoology).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Restoring habitat for the Iberian lynx

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserDr Harriet Allen, CNHS President.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

Rausing Lecture

The kinetic Caribbean: technologies of mobility in a pre-modern world

Twenty-Fifth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMarΓ­a M. Portuondo (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseThe Theatre, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Early Science and Medicine

Ship tracks on European maps and charts, c.1500–c.1800

UserSara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9 and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Productivity Puzzle

UserProfessor Diane Coyle, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: With luck, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees for Streets

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UserSimeon Linstead, Project Director for Trees for Streets.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 19:30-20:45

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

'Constipated, toothless fatties': body and diet in twentieth-century Britain

UserChris Otter (Ohio State University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org or go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/larmor-lecture-professor-chris-budd-tickets-177983973857

UserProfessor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 18:30-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'lesser herbals' in early modern natural history

UserXinyi Wen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom and Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The future of nature conservation and the Wildlife Trusts’ 30:30:30 vision

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs and Northants.

Housevia zoom .

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Forum - Bridging the Gap

UserSpeakers from Arm, Microsoft and the University of Cambridge..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR website for joining information..

ClockTuesday 06 July 2021, 18:00-19:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting and curating at Rothschild's Zoological Museum

UserElla Larsson (University of Westminster).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 24 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

The two lives of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues: picturing plants in the 16th century

UserMonique Kornell and DΓ‘niel MargΓ³csy.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Of wasps in wigs and gnatter with gnats: how insects made Alice in Wonderland

UserFranziska Holt (University of York).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 17 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Islamic science, cultural difference and colonization

UserHarun KΓΌΓ§ΓΌk (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Sounding out wearable and audio data for health diagnostics.

UserProfessor Cecilia Mascolo, Professor of Mobile Systems, Department of Computer Science and Technology; Co-director for the Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence, Cambridge University.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Nehemiah Grew, collector, curator, and cataloguer of plants

UserChristoffer Basse Eriksen (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Futures

UserJenny Andersson (Upsala University) and Sandra Kemp (Lancaster University).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

World models and intuition in the 1970s

UserSarah Dry (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Graphene and GaN - From Basic Science to Manufacturing Devices

UserProf Sir Colin Humphreys, Professor of Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 19 April 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Peter Forster, (Cambridge).

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LECTURE - title to be confirmed

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserDr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 26 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty

YouTube upload date to follow soon

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYouTube link to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 24 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Practical intentions, action schemas, and strategic control in skill

UserEllen Fridland (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mass spectrometry: From ribosomes to receptors

UserProfessor Dame Carol Robinson DBE FRS FMedSci.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The art of conversation

UserProfessor Antje S. Meyer.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Data agnosticism in medical emergencies: a tale from the past

UserDavid Teira (Universidad Nacional de EducaciΓ³n a Distancia).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 15:30-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cancer evolution, immune evasion and metastasis

UserProfessor Charles Swanton FRCP FMedSci FAACR FRS.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 18:00-19:30

Early Science and Medicine

Birth, fate, and Roman futures

UserAnna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Dithipa: (re)collecting animals and their depictions from southern Africa's Missionary Road

UserChris Wingfield (Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 08 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

UserProfessor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What kind of models are deep learning algorithms?

UserLena Zuchowski (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2021, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserProfessor Tim Benton Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.

Househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW7XLjb1S08.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

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

UserDr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Househttps://youtu.be/keEFh3za-Eo.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:01

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk

YouTube Lecture available online now

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseYoutube https://youtu.be/e_AZzwsLbfw.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 00:00-00:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Books, botany and the organisation of nature in 18th-century Cambridge

UserEdwin Rose (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

UserMs Rose George, Journalist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Drawing processes

UserChiara Ambrosio (University College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

From authenticism to alethism: against McCarroll on observer memory

UserKourken Michaelian (UniversitΓ© Grenoble Alpes).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Wound Man: three early modern afterlives of a medieval surgical image

UserJack Hartnell (University of East Anglia).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR webinar: Driving Insurance Innovation: Data Science and Research at Aviva

UserSimon Warsop, FIA, Life Analytics Director | Partner, Aviva Quantum Data Science and Research at Aviva.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Gardens in ink: engraved title-pages of botanical treatises from 1450 to 1700

UserKaleigh Hunter (University of Wuppertal).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 22 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

UserProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seed sovereignty and 'our living relatives' in Native American community farming and gardening

UserElizabeth Hoover (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A natural history of evil

UserAlexander Etkind (European University Institute at Florence).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

PechaKucha - SciSoc Edition!

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockSaturday 13 February 2021, 19:00-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

UserProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

P-hacking: its costs and when it is warranted

UserAdrian Erasmus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2021, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Hunt for Exoplanets

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

UserProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Race, science and literary studies in the 21st century

UserJosie Gill (University of Bristol).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 15:30-17:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Renaissance eugenics

UserMackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

UserDr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Truth AND consequences

UserPolly Mitchell (King's College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed

ONLINE LECTURE - YOUTUBE UPLOAD DATE TO FOLLOW SOON

UserProfessor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseYou tube link to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 00:00-00:01

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ripples from the dark side of the universe

UserProfessor Sir James Hough OBE FRS FRSE FInstP (Hon), University of Glasgow.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 18:00-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The concept of 'disease carrier' in Western medicine

UserAmir Teicher (Tel Aviv University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

UserDr Claire Roddie, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How does process tracing work?

UserChristopher Clarke (CRASSH Cambridge and Erasmus University, Rotterdam).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 21 January 2021, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The End of the World (again) .... or, Lessons from the Black Death

UserProfessor John Robb, Professor of European Prehistory, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 11 January 2021, 19:30-21:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Nominalism in the social sciences: promises and pitfalls

UserAriane Hanemaayer (Brandon University and CRASSH, Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Tips and Tricks for Inventing the Future

Last talk of term

UserMr David A. Homfray CEng CPhys FInstP FRAS FBIS, Former Head of Engineering Realisation Group at the UK Atomic Energy Authority/Culham Centre for Fusion Energy .

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 18:00-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

UserRana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Misinformation in the Digital Age: A Panel

Please note this panel is on a Monday.

UserProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky, Dr Jon Roozenbeek, Professor Sander van der Linden.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Tooth Regeneration and Repair: Dentistry in the 21st century

UserProfessor Paul Sharpe, King's College London, Head of the Centre for Craniofacial & Regenerative Biology, Dickinson Professor of Craniofacial Biology..

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

UserSee description.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Can genomics improve health in Africa? Experience from sickle cell disease in Tanzania

UserProfessor Julie Makani Associate Professor, Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

UserMax Long (Faculty of History).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Do we live in a post-truth era?

UserKristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Epistemic responsibility and scientific authorship

UserHaixin Dang (University of Leeds).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

On the interactions between our industrial system and the natural system

UserProfessor Steve Evans, Director of Research, Centre for Industrial Sustainability, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

UserLeah DeVun (Rutgers University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

UserLeonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Cell Atlas: Mapping the human body one cell at a time

UserDr Sarah Teichmann FRS FMedSci, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

UserVictoria Lee (Ohio University).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

UserMiles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

UserJim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Learning from case studies

UserPetri Ylikoski (University of Helsinki).

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

DNA: Inspiring building blocks that made me a learner in perpetuity

UserDr Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 18:00-19:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

UserKaren Harvey (University of Birmingham).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Discovery of Britain and Ireland's bryophytes

UserChristopher Preston.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Osseointegration, approaching 1,000 cases.

UserProfessor Munjed Al Muderis, MB ChB FRACS FAOrthA; Orthopedic Surgeon, School Of Medicine, University Of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney; School of Medicine Macquarie University.

HouseLocation: Zoom. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 02 November 2020, 09:00-10:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

New Materials for a New Age

Note that this talk is on a Wednesday

UserProfessor Nicola Spaldin FRS, Chair, Materials Theory, ETH Zurich.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Combustion Transition: tackling climate change at its source

In collaboration with CUSPE and CUSISS

UserMr Simon Spooner, ATKINS Infrastructure. Principal Scientist, UK Water Management. Technical Director, China Infrastructure. Honorary Professor, Nottingham University UK and Ningbo, China..

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Science and speculation

UserAdrian Currie (University of Exeter).

HouseTeams.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is sleep good for you?

UserProfessor William Wisden FMedSci, Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

UserAnna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Ice cores and interglacials

UserProfessor Eric Wolff FRS, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Electronics on the brain

UserProfessor George Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLocation: Your choice. See CSAR website or emails for joining information..

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Piecing together the 19th-century Lisbon zoological collections through catalogue lists, specimen tags and paper slips

UserCatarina Madruga (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Lisbon).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 12 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants

UserProfessor Sheng Luan, UC Berkeley .

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2020, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Zero cases - the lessons from New Zealand

UserProfessor Michael Baker, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand..

HouseLocation: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What policy makers need to know about COVID-19 protective immunity.

UserProfessor Danny Altmann, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Immunology and Inflammation, Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital Campus..

HouseLocation: Your choice! See email reminders or "Attending Lectures" for details of how to join in..

ClockWednesday 03 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Studies in Natural Product Synthesis

UserProfessor Phil Baran, Scripps Research.

HouseGoogle Meets.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting

Meeting has been cancelled

UserOrganisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department LT0.

ClockFriday 20 March 2020, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

CANCELLED - Seasearch

CANCELLED

UserPaul Mylrea, Director of Communications for Cambridge University.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserMatthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

COVID-19: the cause, the disease and the response

Canceled

UserProfessor Geoffrey L Smith FRS. Head, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

CANCELLED

UserCarina Prunkl (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Electroreception: A β€œSixth Sense”

UserProfessor Clare Baker, Professor of Comparative Developmental Neurobiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

UserProfessor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things

UserDr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

UserDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Justice: Soil Science and Criminal Investigations

UserProfessor Lorna Dawson, CBE, BSC, PhD, FRSE, FRSA, F.I.Soil.Sci., ChSci Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. AB15 8QH, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK; http://www.hutton.ac.uk/.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2020, 18:00-19:30

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

UserSir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

On Not Writing Poetry at the Brasserie Lipp

UserProfessor Sir Michael Edwards OBE.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Like the Back of Your Hand

UserProfessor Dame Sue Black: President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Darwin and the dog breeders: on correspondence and class in 19th-century Britain

CANCELLED

UserLaura Brassington (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

UserProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What Fuels Cancer Killers!

UserProfessor David Finlay: Associate Professor in Immunometabolism, at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute in Trinity College Dublin.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

UserDr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Monkeys and modernity in colonial Myanmar

Please note that this seminar is on a Friday

UserJonathan Saha (University of Leeds).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

UserDr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life

UserDr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 18.00-19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Physics Meets Biology: How Cells Control Their shape and Why It Matters

UserProfessor Ewa Paluch: Professor of Anatomy, Chair of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

UserDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Creativity and AI

UserMarta Halina (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl

UserProfessor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How atoms became real

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 15:30-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams of Cambridgeshire

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer at the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Air pollution and human health. Lessons learnt and challenges ahead.

UserProfessor Frank Kelly, Department of Analytical, Environmental and Forensic Sciences, King's College London.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 13 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Tickets Β£10 to be purchased in advance.

UserMembers' Event.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 19:00-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Anna SchΓΆnauer, Oxford Brookes University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Coffee Stains, Cell Receptors and Time Crystals: Lessons from the Old Literature

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Members' enthusiasms

UserRod Mulvey - John O’Boyle - Ben Greig.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 28 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Mathematics vs Dementia

UserProfessor Alain Goriely, Professor of Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Reproductive regimes in apartheid South Africa

CANCELLED

UserSusanne Klausen (Ottawa, Amsterdam and Johannesburg).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Coffee with Scientists

1 million correlations: steps towards reproducible psychological science

UserAmy Orben (Emmanuel College and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An evening with Lynn Rothschild

UserProfessor Lynn Rothschild, NASA Ames Research Centre, Stanford University, Brown University.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Is Obesity a Choice?

UserDr Giles Yeo, MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NO TALK

User .

House(no venue).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 18:45-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Communicating Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor Sir David Spieghalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Next Generation of Children

UserProfessor Lucy Raymond, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

UserProfessor Tom KΣ§rner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cell Ageing: Reversing the Ravages of Time

UserProfessor Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurophysics and Neuroengineering of space, time and imagination

UserProfessor Mayank R. Mehta, Departments of: Physics & Astronomy; Neurology; Neurobiology Brain Research Institute, ULCA. W.M. Keck Centre for Neurophysics, UCLA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Wataching Molecules in Action

UserProfessor Sir David Klenerman FRS FMedSci, Christ's College.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

UserDr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

10 Years of HPV Vaccines - The Global Experience

UserProfessor Dame Margaret Stanley, Emeritus Professor of Epithelial Biology, Deparment of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again

UserProfessor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Dressed to Kill: What do Infectious Disease Agents Have in their Wardrobes?

UserProfessor Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Big Data Psychometrics

UserDr. David Stilwell, Cambridge University Judge Business School.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC?

UserProfessor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS bat & moth trapping night

Book by emailing president@cnhs.org.uk with your name and phone number, in case we need to cancel because of bad weather.

UserDuncan Mackay.

HouseMeet at north end of Riverside 'Millennium' foot/cycle bridge..

ClockSaturday 28 September 2019, 19:00-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

UserDr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Whose history of technology? Path dependencies, contested modernities, and pockets of persistence

Twenty-Fourth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserRuth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Thinking/researching/teaching race, genetics and intelligence in HPS and STS

UserJenny Bangham (HPS), Marta Halina (HPS) and Ernesto Schwartz Marin (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene eating

UserDr. Giles Yeo, Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserProf Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockSaturday 13 April 2019, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 100th Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science

UserFree Public Exhibition.

HouseConservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

ClockFriday 12 April 2019, 13:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

UserProfessor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Exploring the Natural World: an Orchestral Concert

Tickets Β£10 (children free) from tickets@cnhs.org.uk or on door

UserCambridge Concert Orchestra.

HouseWesley Methodist Church, Christs Pieces.

ClockSaturday 30 March 2019, 19:30-21:30

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

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseLecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockFriday 22 March 2019, 09:00-17:15

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

UserElon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

UserOrganiser Professor Simon Conway Morris.

HouseLecture Room 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ.

ClockThursday 21 March 2019, 13:15-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Creating a wildlife tour with the Arctic Sami

Part of Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

UserKevin Hand.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 18:45-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

UserProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The 'dye herbarium': capturing colour in botanical collections

UserAnna Svensson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest: From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind

UserA V HILL LECTURE - Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

UserDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hyde Park: a history through trees

UserGreg Packman, Arboricultural Officer at the Royal Parks.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Beauty, truth and understanding

UserMilena Ivanova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

UserProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

UserMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Venom

UserLeah Fitzpatrick, Imperial College London/Natural History Museum.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 18:45-20:00

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

UserProfessor Sir John E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

UserProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Getting the American Model Right: State Constitutional Revision and the Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century U.S.

UserProfessor Naomi Lamoreaux - Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History - Yale University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 17:30-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Negotiating history: contingency, canonicity and case studies

UserAgnes Bolinska and Joseph Martin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

UserProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

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

UserJack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

HouseUniversity Museum of Zoology.

ClockMonday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

UserMary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets Β£10

UserAnastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

UserDr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

UserDr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

UserMatt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Epigenetic modifications

UserDr Magdalena J Koziol, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 26 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation

CANCELLED

UserTal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

UserKatie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

UserProfessor Simon TavarΓ© FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Cryo-EM heats up

UserDr Doryen Bubeck, Imperial College, London.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, St John's College Divinity School.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

This lecture has been cancelled

UserProfessor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

UserProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Foula: Edge of the World

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserSam Buckton.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

UserProfessor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

UserDr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics

UserDr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The riparian meadows of Cambridge

Part of the Festival of Ideas - free admission

UserChris Preston.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

The fight against malaria using proteasomes

UserDr Paula da Fonseca, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Explanations for medical artificial intelligence

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Many Molyneux Questions

UserJonathan Cohen (University of California, San Diego).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special: a geological detective story

UserProfessor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The long-lost Paston Collection

UserSpike Bucklow (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

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.

UserVladlen Koltun, Intel.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockThursday 30 August 2018, 13:00-14:30

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

UserAndreas Malm (Lund University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

UserAgnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

UserRahul Pandharipande (ETH).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

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

UserOrganisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA.

ClockFriday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How archaeologists resolve the inductive risk argument

CANCELLED

UserRune Nyrup (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2018, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Improving on Nature: Biotechnology and the Ethics of Animal Enhancement

UserDr Sarah Chan, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New micro-machines, new materials

UserProfessor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

UserProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

UserDr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Human Brain Development Modelled in a Dish

UserDr Madeline Lancaster, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship

UserProfessor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

UserMs Kavita Puri, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Disaggregating goods

Please note change of day and time

UserMariam Thalos (University of Utah).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

UserProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

UserMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

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

UserProfessor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

UserProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Light, Sleep & Circadian Rhythms-Biology to Therapeutics

UserProfessor Russell Foster, Head of the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson LT, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive

UserProfessor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 January 2018, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

UserProfessor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

It's Not All About The Science

UserDr Anna Barnes, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2018, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

UserMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Ether: the multiple lives of a resilient concept

UserJaume Navarro (University of the Basque Country).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

UserHernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Romanian meadows, their problems and conservation

This will be followed by drinks and refreshments until 9.30pm – further details will be sent by email but there will be a charge and booking will be required.

UserLouise Bacon.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 07 December 2017, 18:45-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

UserMadeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Hunting Monsters

UserDr Darren Naish.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 19:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

UserBrian Metscher (University of Vienna).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity

UserProfessor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 20 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

A map in the mind

UserDr Julija Krupic.

HouseLightfoot Room - St John's College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 19:00-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A bold hypothesis about pursuit

UserAdrian Currie (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Iron holds the whale

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine

UserProfessor Richard Durbin FRS, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 06 November 2017, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Of elephants and men

UserCaitlin Black and Derek Murphy.

HouseCastlereagh room - St John's College.

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction

UserProfessor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The perils of p-hacking and the promise of pre-analysis plans

UserJacob Stegenga (with ZoΓ« Hitzig) (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

UserAssociate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of ParΓ‘).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

Tickets Β£5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O'Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

UserDr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. .

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 19 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

UserLaura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

UserLord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 05 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Rausing Lecture

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserLissa Roberts (University of Twente).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

UserDr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Structure determination by electron crystallography: a powerful complement to conventional methods for structure elucidation

UserTom Willhammar, Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm SEβˆ’106 91, Sweden.

HouseGoldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

ClockMonday 24 April 2017, 11:30-12:30

MMP public and schools' events

'Maths vs Disease'

UserDr Julia Gog.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockSaturday 25 March 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Towards General Artificial Intelligence

UserDr Demis Hassabis, Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind, Vice President of Engineering at Google DeepMind.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 20 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Environmental diversity of Architecture

UserProfessor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour

UserProf. Beverley Glover FLS, Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge and Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Gardens.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

UserProfessor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

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

UserProfessor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural history and the antiquarian

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

UserProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Citizens, Science and Science for Citizens

UserProf. Dame Athene Donald DBE FRS, Dept Physics, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 20 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Cancer Research

UserProf Richard Gilbertson.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One

UserDr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

UserRoz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

UserJohannes MΓΌller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Black Holes at Work

Userprof. Andy Fabian OBE FRS, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 February 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Discovery and design of catalysts for sustainable technologies

UserJavier Perez-Ramirez, Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseGoldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

UserProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

New Detectors for measuring probability current flow of an atomic-scale electron beam

UserDavid A. Muller, School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, U.S.A..

HouseGoldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 15:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Wishful speaking: science, truth and dictatorship

UserStephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Nanomedicine

UserSir Mark Welland and Ruth Cameron.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Creating and erasing memories with epigenetics

UserProf. Wolf Reik FRS FMedSci, Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 23 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Politics and Biology

UserDr Julian Huppert.

HouseFisher Buidling, St John's College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Manufacturing - the vital capability for effective innovation

UserProf. Sir Mike Gregory FREng, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 09 January 2017, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Role of Values in Animal Cognition Research

UserDr Marta Halina, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 19:00-20:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Our cosmic origins: everything from nothing

UserProfessor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics at Durham University.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The anti-feminist construction of the 'midlife crisis'

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Leonardo, Rapunzel and the Physics of Hair

UserProf. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Trees, hedges and woodland management

UserSimon Damant, Forester at the National Trust Wimpole Hall estate.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Microbiology

UserProf Kim Hardie and Dr Tom Ellis.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Climate change and local wildlife

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The mine as a subterranean Kunstkammer

UserLisa Skogh (Victoria & Albert Museum).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 21 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space

UserProfessor Lord Robert Mair, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What makes econophysics distinctive?

UserJames Weatherall (University of California, Irvine).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Global Geology and the Tectonics of Empire

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 17:30-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Opossums, Catastrophes, and Homeostasis

UserProfessor Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at Warwick University.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Molecular medicines for the lysosome

UserProfessor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - Black holes and revelations

UserDr Christopher Berry, Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Co-author of recent gravitational waves paper.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Symposium: Neurobiology

UserProf Ole Paulsen.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 19:00-20:30

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Making pregnancy public in seventeenth-century England

UserLeah Astbury (Department of History and Philosphy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What shapes the human immune system?

UserDr Michelle Linterman, Babraham Institute and Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 31 October 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Internships Event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SCISOC TALK - The Black dog: why don't we care?

UserProfessor Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health at the LSHTM.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture

UserProf. Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng FNAE, Dept of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Chris Lowe, University of Essex.

HouseSt John's College.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packing dominoes and other shapes

UserProfessor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 October 2016, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Slugs and snails

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the local Wildlife Trust.

HouseDavid Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 18:30-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Computational Imaging in Atomic Force Microscopy

UserThomas Arildsen, Department of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Aalborg University, Denmark.

HouseGoldsmiths 2, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

ClockWednesday 21 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Analyzing Orientation Relationships with MTEX

UserRalf Hielscher, Department of Mathematics, TU Chemnitz.

HouseGoldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

ClockWednesday 03 August 2016, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge. Geology walking tour - FULLY BOOKED

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet in front of the Round Church, CB2 1UB.

ClockThursday 16 June 2016, 18:30-20:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Recent applications of sub 20meV monochromated STEM-EELS: from phonons to core losses in real and momentum space

UserQuentin Ramasse, The EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM (SuperSTEM), United Kingdom.

HouseLT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Landing on a Comet

UserProfessor Monica Grady CBE, Professor of Planetary and Space Science, The Open University.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 06 June 2016, 19:30-21:00

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

Julian Huxley’s Reproductive Futures

Please register your interest at: reprosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserAlison Bashford, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of Jesus College.

HouseBentley Room, The Pitt Building.

ClockMonday 23 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

Mordell Lectures

Why Mathematical Proof?

UserDana Scott (Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon, Visiting Scholar in Mathematics, Berkeley) .

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - What, Where. … and How? The future of the LHC and beyond.

UserMelissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Rausing Lecture

Reclaiming conversation: our new silent spring in a digital age

Twenty-First Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserSherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Pushing the limits of analytical electron microscopy with data science

UserFrancisco de la Pena, Electron Microscopy Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseLT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Probing the Polar Oceans

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, Deputy Head of Polar Oceans, British Antactic Survey.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 16 May 2016, 19:30-21:00

Coffee with Scientists

How to study fire

UserJenni Sidey (Research Associate, Department of Engineering).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 13 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

From Atoms to Planets: Understanding Planetary Magnetic Records Using Nanoscale Microscopy

UserJoshua F. Einsle, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Dept. of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Univeristy of Cambridge.

HouseGoldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

ClockFriday 13 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

Coffee with Scientists

The technological singularity: superintelligent machines and the future of humanity

UserMurray Shanahan (Professor of Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 15:30-17:00

Coffee with Scientists

How should scientists quantify academic value?

UserAlecia Carter (Research Fellow, Churchill College and Department of Zoology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Builders of the vision

UserDaniel Cardoso Llach (Carnegie Mellon University/Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

UserChristopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Technology and Democracy Events

"Social media and political turbulence"

UserProfessor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00

Coffee with Scientists

Data-driven versus hypothesis-driven science

UserSteve Oliver (Professor of Systems Biology and Biochemistry; Director of the Cambridge Systems Biology Centre).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 15:30-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Nanoscale chemical imaging by soft X-ray spectro-microscopy and spectro-ptychography

UserProf. Adam Hitchcock, Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research & Dept. of Chemistry & Chemical Biology McMaster University, Canada.

HouseLT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockFriday 01 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Improving with age? A multisensory lecture on wine chemistry

Event is now fully booked

UserAlissa Aron, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 March 2016, 19:00-21:00

MMP public and schools' events

Hands-On Maths Fair

UserCambridge Science Festival.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockSaturday 19 March 2016, 11:30-16:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Super-resolution microscopy in thick specimen

Biochemistry Lecture theatre !

UserGeorge Sirinakis & Edward Allgeyer (Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute ).

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING

UserOrganisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 09:00-17:45

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

In-situ TEM sample-management solutions Workshop (by DENSsolutions and LOT Quantum Design)

To register follow link from http://www-hrem.msm.cam.ac.uk/

UserDENSsolutions and LOT Quantum Design.

HouseLT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2016, 09:30-15:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease

UserProfessor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

UserDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Learn to use a microscope

Booking essential and there will be a small charge. See website for details.

User..

HouseDepartment of Zoology, Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 18:30-20:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Democracy and its Discontents

UserProfessor John Shattuck, Central European University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

EDSAC Reborn: A computer detective story

UserDr Nigel Bennee FBCS, The EDSAC Replica Project, The Computer Conservation Society.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

UserProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease

UserProfessor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

Did the earth sciences have a 20th-century revolution?

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Live cell biochemistry by light

Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

UserAlessandro Esposito (Hutchison/Medical Research Council Research Centre).

HouseCRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Birdsong - what's all the noise about?

UserTony Fulford, Ely Wildspace, and Dept. of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 18 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein Folding Homeostasis

UserProfessor David Ron, MD, FMedSci, FRS | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 19:30-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

UserDr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Coffee with Scientists

Are we tackling the causes of global warming effectively?

UserSir David King (Foreign Secretary's Special Representative on Climate Change).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 15:30-17:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The maternal-fetal relationship since 1900

UserTatjana Buklijas (Liggins Institute and Central European University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence

UserProfessor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 February 2016, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

UserSir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The impact of machines

UserHenry K. Miller (Slade School of Fine Art, UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The problem of confirmation in the Everett interpretation

UserEmily Adlam (Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Scisoc Talk: Sir David Spiegelhalter

UserDavid Spiegelhalter (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseLT1, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

UserProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Cancer by the Numbers

UserProfessor Simon TavarΓ©.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:30-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

Humours, spirits and souls: aetiology and therapeutics in medieval Islam

This seminar will start an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

UserLiana Saif (University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs

UserProfessor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 January 2016, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Light Sheet Microscopy at the Cambridge Advanced Imaging Centre

Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

UserKevin O’Holleran & Ruth Sims (CAIC, University of Cambridge).

HouseCRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 15:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Dame Athene Donald - "Physics of the Everyday"

UserProfessor Dame Athene Donald ( Director, Physics of Medicine, Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseLT1, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 20:00-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

UserBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Philomathia Social Sciences Research Programme

'What world will we leave for our grandchildren?'

This is a public lecture and is subject to capacity.

UserProf Robert Putnam (Harvard University) .

HouseCripps Auditorium, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 17:30-19:00

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

UserDr Hermann Hauser KBE, FRS, FREng, FinstP, C Phys Co-Founder and Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 07 December 2015, 19:30-21:00

Coffee with Scientists

Science education

UserEugene Kang (Pusan University) and Keith Taber (Education, Cambridge).

HouseBoard Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 04 December 2015, 14:30-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

UserHelen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

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

UserProfessor James Jackson CBE, FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 30 November 2015, 19:15-21:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The medical book in the Victorian pornography trade

UserSarah Bull (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Imaging with Entangled photons

Location alternates between CRUK CI and Sanger LT Biochemistry

UserJohn White (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison).

HouseCRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 21 November 2015, 15:00-16:00

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.

UserProf Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 19:00-20:30

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

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 16 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

UserProfessor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and HHMI, University of California, San Diego.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

On the political use of physiognomy around 1500

This seminar will take place an hour earlier than usual, at 4pm

UserJoseph Ziegler (University of Haifa).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The human brain - a lesson in green technology

UserProfessor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

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.

UserProfessor John Barrow FRS, Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 02 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - On the Unreasonable Effectiveness of post-Newtonian Theory in Gravitational Physics

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Coffee with Scientists

A 21st-century biologist looks at Sir Isaac Newton

UserMargaret Ann Goldstein (Baylor College of Medicine, and Clare Hall).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - The Cosmic Barber: Counting Gravitational Hair in the Solar System and Beyond

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Simulating scientific merit dynamics

UserShahar Avin (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

jjn1's list

Postcapitalism

UserPaul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News.

HouseRoom GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

SciSoc Talk: Professor Jeremy Baumberg: Where is my nanobot?

UserProfessor Jeremy Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 19:00-20:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Was Einstein Right? A Centennial Assessment

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~cmw/

UserProfessor Clifford Will, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Florida.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 26 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Coffee with Scientists

Making archaeological knowledge

UserAlison Wylie (University of Washington, and Durham University) and John Robb (Archaeology, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Pioneer Colonists and Indigenous Response: Resistance and Collaboration

Jointly with "The Cambridge Festival of Ideas"

UserProfessor Mark Horton FSA, Professor of Archaeology, University of Bristol.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockMonday 19 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

UserProfessor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

HouseChurchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

To explain the Scientific Revolution by means of comparison

Special Joint Needham Research Institute and HPS Seminar

UserFloris Cohen (Utrecht University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 15:30-17:00

jjn1's list

The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems Judgement

UserJohn Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH.

HouseRoom B16, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 12:30-14:00

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

UserDr. Arindam Ghosh, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

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

UserProf. Sir Colin Humphreys, Director of Research, Dept. Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

HPS History Workshop

Tuning out knowledge: radio interface design in interwar Britain

UserBrandon Jackson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

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"

UserRod Kirkby, Retired Aerodynamics Research/Project Feasibility Engineer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 08 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

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 β€œIt takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”

UserDr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

Mordell Lectures

The solution of the Kadison-Singer Problem

UserDaniel Spielman (Yale).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockMonday 01 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Rock, paper, patents: between intellectual property and embodied knowledge

UserJenny Bulstrode (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

Rausing Lecture

Metallurgy and Chinese civilisation: an historical overview

Twentieth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

UserChristen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de CiΓͺncia).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

John von Neumann, Alan Turing and the origins of cellular automata

UserJonnie Penn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

UserDr Robin Wootton, University of Exeter.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 19:30-21:00

HPS History Workshop

Pedagogy and the vernacular in medieval astronomy

UserSeb Falk (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-18:00

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

UserProf. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beavers, brains, behaviour: the natural histories of 1950s psychiatry

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Meet the Authors

Held in association with the Cambridge Science Festival

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The 'Aeroplane Gaze': looking up in 1909

UserPatrick Ellis (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

NB Change of date and venue

UserAndrew Phillips (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

HouseBateman Auditoriuim, Gonville and Caius College.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

UserDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein misfolding and disaggregation by chaperones

UserProf. Helen Saibil FRS, Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 19:00-20:30

HPS History Workshop

Newtonian politics

UserJason Grier (York University, Canada).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Structure of the mitochondrial ATPase

UserProfessor Sir John Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 19:00-20:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Psychometric validation as theory avoidance

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited

UserProfessor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jan Swammerdam's visions of nature

UserClaire Sabel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

UserMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

The making of the midlife crisis: psychology and feminism in the 1970s

UserSusanne Schmidt (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Emergent chance (jointly authored with Marcus Pivato)

UserChristian List (London School of Economics and Political Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Some of my Accidents

UserProf. Stephen Richardson, Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

UserProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Pragmatism and the possibility of (no) naturalistic metaphysics

UserJonathan Knowles (NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health

UserProfessor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visions of useful nature in late-colonial Central America (c. 1770–1821)

UserSophie Brockmann (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

UserProfessor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Finding drugs: Russia and the early modern global medicines trade, 1550–1750

UserClare Griffin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

UserVahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ripping up the Rule Book in Formula One

UserProf. Tony Purnell, Systems Design, Royal Academy of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

UserProfessor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

DNA Sequencing and Other Applications of Engineered Protein Nanopores

NB Location and time have changed

UserProf. Hagan Bayley FRS, Department of Chemistry, Oxford.

HouseGordon Cameron Lecture Theatre, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

HPV vaccines – are they doing their job?

UserProf. Margaret Stanley OBE, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 19:00-20:30

HPS History Workshop

Research in psychiatry at a time of therapeutic optimism

UserKathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Innovation in Practise

UserProf. Andy Hopper, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

UserProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Colin Russell (Department of Veterinary Medicine).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Stem Cells

UserProf Austin Smith, Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Information Event

UserProf. Steve Russell (University of Cambridge), Dr. Tim Weil (University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

HPS History Workshop

Crystals and optics: Huygens and Wollaston

UserSteve Irish (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Collecting natural history: Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances'

UserVictoria Pickering (Queen Mary University of London and Natural History Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 24 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Title to be confirmed

Please note change of date and time

UserEleanor Knox (King's College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:30

HPS History Workshop

Newton's chronology and the tradition of universal history

Please note change of date

UserTimothy Rees Jones (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How does an alga become a parasite?

UserEllen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Living Time Machine: Non-verbal intelligence

UserProf. Nicky Clayton FRS, Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge and Clive Wilkins.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

W.B. Carpenter and the wonder of microscopy

UserEmma Pyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2014, 13:00-14:15

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Visual STS

UserPeter Galison (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Breast cancer- tackling 10 diseases

UserProf. Carlos Caldas (Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Event

UserSally Todd, Careers Service and student speakers.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Metabolic Disease: Lessons from the extremes.

UserProf. Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 19:30-21:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Brownian motion pictures

UserCharlotte Bigg (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre KoyrΓ©, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Farewell to content

UserKim Sterelny (Australian National University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Perception and belief in psychosis

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungal Foray

Admission free for CNHS members & Friends of CUBG. Garden entrance fee for others.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 13:30-16:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Building Brains

UserProf Steve Furber, University of Manchester.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 20:00-21:15

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The realist stance

Note unusual day and time

UserAnjan Chakravartty (University of Notre Dame).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe

UserProfessor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Jean AndrΓ© Peyssonnel and the coral island

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 13:00-14:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Deep Time and Modern Brains

Please contact the organiser, Liria Masuda-Nakagawa (lm546) if you would like to meet Professor Strausfeld after the seminar.

UserProfessor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona).

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics. Please use the entrance by the Part II room and tea room underneath the external fire escape. Main entrance is not connected to Part II room due to refurbishment..

ClockFriday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Mordell Lectures

The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space

UserProfessor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Development of an advanced scanning transmission electron microscope for material science research

The Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

UserDr Naoya Shibata, Institute of Engineering Innovation, University of Tokio.

HouseLT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockFriday 27 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Nature, culture and philosophy

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Tim Lewens

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HousePeterhouse Lecture Theatre, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 20 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets Β£5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

UserDr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

HouseMeet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

ClockThursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

UserDr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

ClockWednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Noise in audio and electronics

UserDr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Representationalism and pragmatism

UserPiotr Szalek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

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.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00

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

UserDr Hugh Hunt, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy

Fifth Hewish Lecture

UserProfessor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside

UserCaitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

UserHannah Long (University of Oxford).

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Rausing Lecture

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserGabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is empathy? A genealogical account

UserRiana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 16 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices

The second of two half-hour lectures by the Society's Henslow Fellows

UserDr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:30-19:00

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

UserDr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 18:00-18:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Why do societies work? Persistence and functional explanation

POSTPONED

UserAdrian Boutel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Art Cell Gallery Exhibtions

Clare Park: 'Gathering Light', at ArtCell, 09 May - 31st July 2013

The exhibition is free and open to the public

UserClare Park .

HouseArtCell Gallery @ Cancer Research UK.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 17:00-20:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Rydberg atoms in interaction : a new kind of quantum matter.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de France and Ecole Normale SupΓ©rieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Twilight of the Scientific Age

UserDr MartΓ­n LΓ³pez Corredoira (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands).

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Counting and controlling photons non-destructively.

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Juggling with photons in a box and raising SchrΓΆdinger cats of radiation

UserProfessor Serge Haroche, College de Franceand and Ecole Normale SupΓ©rieure, Paris.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

UserJohn Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Rt Hon Vince Cable, MP

UserRt Hon Vince Cable, MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and President of the Board of Trade.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

UserBenjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du DΓ©veloppement de Marseille-Luminy).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Presidential Address and AGM

Please note earlier than usual start time.

UserJonathan Shanklin, President, Cambridge Natural History Society.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Β£10 but FULLY BOOKED!

UserLuke Webster.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 21 March 2014, 19:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Book Evening

In association with the Cambridge Science Festival

UserProfs. Spiegelhalter, Ahmed and Longair.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Captured Thoughts: The Collaborations of an Artist and a Scientist

UserProf Nicky Clayton & Clive Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Frankenstein 2.0: Structure + Pattern + Movement = LIFE?

Part of Cambridge Science Festival 2014. Free & open to all.

UserDr Mark Haw (University of Strathclyde).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The future of biodiversity in tropical landscapes

Come along for this very special lunchtime talk to find out about the future of biodiversity! Feel free to bring your own lunch, but light refreshments will be also provided.

UserEd Turner, Department of Zoology.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

G-quadruplex: the DNA quadruple helix

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FMedSci FRS (CRUK and Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

UserGünter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Quantum Games with Spins Alight

UserDr Mete AtatΓΌre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 20:00-21:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

UserDr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The prospects for Darwinian imperialism

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

The Nation's Hidden Art College Revealed

UserAndrew Ellis, Director of the Public Catalogue Foundation.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 17:30-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Development and Repair of Neurons

UserProf Roger Keynes, Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience.

HouseSeminar Room, Institute of Criminology.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Why aircraft may soon grow bumps on their wings

UserProfessor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Energetic constraints on the evolution of life

UserDr Nick Lane (Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 19:00-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

UserProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

The peculiarities of the naked mole-rat – what can we learn from them?

NOTE THAT EVENT IS ON THURSDAY

UserDr Ewan St John Smith, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Trapping CO2 using sponge-like materials

Slight refreshment will be provided.

UserPu Zhao, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Sex and the Brain (in fruit flies)

UserDr Gregory Jefferis (MRC LMB, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Neurons Feel the Force

UserDr Kristian Franze, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running

A V HILL LECTURE

UserProfessor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

UserProfessor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

UserDr Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Imaging biology in the cancer patient

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle FMedSci (CRUK and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

UserPatrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The sweet smell of E. coli division

UserDr David Summers, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 20:00-21:15

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

β€œImpact of Climate Change on Ocean Chemistry”

18:15 for 19:00 start

UserJoanna Kerr and India Weidle.

HouseHarker 1 Dept. Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 18:15-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Skeletons in the cabinet and the Grand Tour of anatomy

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

UserProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A brief history of fungi on plants

UserAli Ashby, Cambridge University Dept. of Plant Sciences.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Biophysical insights into protein aggregation

UserDr Tuomas Knowles (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action

UserDr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

UserProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is evidence?

UserMatt Penfold (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cassandra's Climate

UserMichael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Socio-ecology and Conservation of Asian Apes

UserDr David Chivers (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 19:00-20:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Human nature: from theory to practice

UserTim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Can Research Prevent Crime?

UserProfessor Lawrence Sherman, Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

UserMikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The relevance of botanic garden greenhouses in the modern era

UserAlexander Summers, Botanic Garden.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

UserMichel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

UserProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The medicalisation of love

UserBrian Earp (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

A View from Nine Wells

UserSteve Boreham, Cambridge University Dept. of Geography.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Troubled by Culture: Global Reflections in a World of Change

UserProfessor Aida Hernandez, Dr Susan Bayly and Professor Sarah Radcliffe.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 17:30-19:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Propensities and pragmatism

UserMauricio Suarez (Complutense University of Madrid).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The multiple inventions of transgenic mice

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Validation of EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance

UserProfessor John Gruzelier, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

The Saga of Alemtuzumab in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis

Free entry, open to the public and complimentary drink included

UserProfessor Alastair Compston, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2014, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

COLOUR

One day meeting - free entry and open to all

UserOrganised by Professor John Mollon FRS.

HouseLecture Room 0 Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 09 January 2014, 09:30-17:15

Imaging and Mathematics

IMAGiNG and MATHEMATiCS workshops

Light Microscopy in Cambridge is now on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/491162727587920/

UserHendrik Dirks (DAMTP Cambridge/University of MΓΌnster), Kirsty Wan (DAMTP, Cambridge), Joan Lasenby (Engineering Department, Cambridge), Patrice Mascalchi (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Siru Virtanen (CRUK CI, Cambridge), Isabel Peset Martin (CRUK CI, Cambridge).

HouseCRUK CI, lecture theatre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 14:00-17:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

CANCELLED

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

Fat fish are a forest product

UserDr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mysterious goings-on around Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserAlek Petty, Earth Sciences Department, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, UCL.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Bringing up the body: psychology and embodiment in the 20th century

UserAndrew Buskell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Eyespots and scents on butterfly wings

UserPaul Brakefield, Director of Cambridge University Museum of Zoology.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Information Event

User[Careers Service and Former Summer Students and Interns].

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Are you your brain?

UserProfessor Steven Rose (The Open University).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

UserGΓ‘spΓ‘r JΓ©kely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Using underwater robots to observe the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserLouise Biddle, University of East Anglia.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

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

UserProfessor John Rink, Professor of Musical Performance Studies, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 19:15-21:00

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserVolunteer staff and students, Faculty of Mathematics.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockSaturday 16 November 2013, 10:00-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Chalk streams and their management

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer for the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire Wildlife Trust.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE

UserProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Ontic structural realism and economics: the unwanted gift

UserRaj Patel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Headache of Hypoxia

UserProf Hugh Montgomery, University College London.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough?

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology .

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Willi Hennig and philosophy

UserCharissa Varma (Darwin Correspondence Project).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 November 2013, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Pollution and wildlife – practical problems for nature conservation in England

UserAlastair Burn, Principal Specialist in environmental impacts for Natural England.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why is Chemistry Difficult?

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Information Event

User[Careers Service and current PhD and MPhil students].

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

HPS History Workshop

Illustrating Enlightenment science: women at the margins in 18th-century France

UserMargaret Carlyle (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

How can mice using iPads help cure Alzheimer's disease?

UserProfessor Tim Bussey (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 04 November 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Multiprotein assemblies, structural biology and drug discovery: Gaining selectivity through allostery

UserProfessor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Key Drivers in the World Economy: Why we should be positive

The β€˜Festival of Ideas’ Lecture

UserDr Gerard Lyons, Economic Adviser to the Mayor of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns

Note new start time of 6.00pm

UserMr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey .

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Some challenges in modelling influenza

UserDr Julia Gog (CCBI and DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Individual risk: does it exist?

UserPhil Dawid (Statistical Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00-14:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Super-resolution Microscopy

UserDr Eric Rees, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Applied and not-yet-applied

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge CB3 0DS.

ClockMonday 21 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Hardwick Wood, past and present

UserVince Lea, voluntary warden for Hardwick Wood.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Teenagers: A Natural History

UserDr David Bainbridge (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

BioSoc Freshers' Squash

UserJoin BioSoc - light refreshments provided.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From Mars to the Multiverse

UserLord Martin Rees, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation

LARMOR LECTURE - note new start time of 6.00pm

UserProfessor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Saving Asia's vultures

UserKevin Hand, wildlife tour leader for ACE Cultural Tours.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Overlooked wildlife

UserBrian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 03 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

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.

UserChris Huhne, former UK Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.

HouseEngineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

ClockThursday 05 September 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Molecular imaging of tumor progression at the tumor/stromal boundary

Please let me know if you like to meet Patricia before or after the seminar.

UserPatricia Keely, Associate Professor and Co-PI LOCI, Madison-Wisconsin.

HouseCRUK Cambridge Institute Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 02 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

MMP public and schools' events

Mathemagic with a Deck of Cards

UserProfessor Colm Mulcahy, Spelman College, Atlanta.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockThursday 18 July 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Bad Moves: How decision making goes wrong and the ethics of smart drugs’

Please note that this event will take place on Wednesday

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 June 2013, 19:30-20:30

MMP public and schools' events

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockWednesday 26 June 2013, 10:30-11:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Rationality in extraordinary science

CANCELLED

UserVashka dos Remedios (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Building Business in the Sunshine

UserStuart Elmes, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Viridian Solar.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 June 2013, 19:00-21:00

HPS History Workshop

Laughing at the doctors: satire and public practice, 1660–1720

UserMichelle Wallis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The entrenchment of metaphors in scientific practice

UserAnna de Bruyckere (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plan Bee: Ensuring the Future of Pollination

UserMike Brown, Head of National Bee Unit, The Food and Environmental Research Agency, DEFRA.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Rausing Lecture

Coal, steam and ships: economic historians versus historians of technology?

Eighteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserCrosbie Smith (University of Kent).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Seeing with words: tours, surveys and agricultural improvement in Britain, c.1770–c.1820

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Explanation in neuroscience

UserZina Ward (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Organic Electronics: a story of science and technology

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Antenatal affairs: discourses of pregnancy and the unborn c.1900

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 13:00-14:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Carbon nanotubes - Laboratory to Industry

UserProf Alan Windle, FRS, Dept of Material Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 19:00-20:00

HPS History Workshop

Liebig's vampire: agricultural chemistry and the embodied earth in mid-19th century Britain

UserSimon Nightingale (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Volcanology Applied to Emergencies

UserProfessor Stephen Sparks CBE, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseWolfson Lecture Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 19:00-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - NOW FULLY BOOKED

Note tickets are Β£8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited.

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden. CB2 1JF.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 18:30-20:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Digital maps and minimal animals in movement ecology

UserEtienne Benson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 25 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

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

UserDr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:30-19:00

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

UserDr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 18:00-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A shag in Madingley and a porpoise at Earith: the 'Fauna Cantabrigiensis' of the Rev Leonard Jenyns (1800-1893)

Note: This talk will be held in room LAB107 in the Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserTim Sparks.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 04 April 2013, 19:30-21:00

MMP public and schools' events

Mathematics and Smallpox

Cambridge Science Festival free public talk

UserProfessor Tom KΓΆrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge CB3 0WA.

ClockSaturday 23 March 2013, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Behavioural Economics and Public Policy

UserProfessor Cass Sunstein, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

HouseCambridge Judge Business School Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Visit to the University Herbarium

Note: CNHS members only, as numbers are restricted.

User..

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Our Fluid Earth

Joint Event with Cambridge Science Festival and BlueSci.

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The natural history of the Chihuahua: canine mythology and the science of breeding

Postponed from 4 March

UserDavid Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

HPS History Workshop

Varieties of tacit knowledge

UserTim Rogan (Faculty of History).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Low Carbon Road Freight Transport

UserProfessor David Cebon, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Harvesting toads in South Africa for pregnancy testing in Britain

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Why "shaken but not stirred"?

UserProfessor Richard Zare, Stanford University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:30-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges

UserMinwoo Seo (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Book Evening

UserDr Paula Gomes, Dr Richard Preece, Dr Tim Sparks, Charles Cotton.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

POSTPONED: Energy and Life

UserProf. Sir John Ernest Walker, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit & Nobel Prize Laureate.

HouseDepartment of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

UserSteffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Graphene Future Emerging Technology

UserProfessor Andrea C. Ferrari, Professor of Nanotechnology, Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Nuclear reprogramming

UserSir John Gurdon, FRS [Emeritus Professor, Department of Zoology, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland

UserDr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Diseases of ash and other trees round the world

Note: This talk will be held in room MEL001 in the Mellish Clark Building, Anglia Ruskin University.

UserOliver Rackham.

HouseMellish Clark Building (MEL 001), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Selection and maximization

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Thinker-doers: Adding value in a climate crisis

UserGracen Johnson, MPhil Student, Land Economy Faculty.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of Biological Complexity

UserRaymond Goldstein [Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Cambridge].

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Breast Cancer- The Biology Behind the Silent Killer

Please note that the event is on Wednesday and not the usual Tuesday!

UserHaley Frend, Department of Pathology.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture: Baroness Neuberger

UserBaroness Neuberger DBE, Senior Rabbi, West London Synagogue.

HouseTBC.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 18:00-19:30

HPS History Workshop

Common sense and phrenology

UserSean Dyde (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful

UserProfessor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Poet of progress: serendipity and the search for Erasmus Darwin

UserPatricia Fara (Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Clare College, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

More models, more problems?

UserRune Nyrup (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

The Hewish Lectures

β€œThe Evolution of High-Frequency Radio Astronomy”

UserProf Richard Hills, Cavendish Astrophysics.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

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?

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor, Department of Energy and Climate Change.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 19:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Generatio: medieval debates about procreation, heredity and 'bioethics'

UserMaaike van der Lugt (UniversitΓ© Paris Diderot – Paris 7 / Institut Universitaire de France).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW

Organised by Professor Haroon Ahmed FRS and Professor Archie Howie FRS

UserSir John Meurig Thomas FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor A. Howie FRS, University of Cambridge; Professor J A K Howard FRS, University of Durham, Dr Richard Henderson, University of Cambridge, Professor John Rodenburg, University of Sheffield; Pr.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 January 2013, 09:00-17:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Chasing Ice and Q&A Session at the Arts Picturehouse

UserDr Ed King, British Antartic Survey glaciologist.

HouseArts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrews Street.

ClockSaturday 15 December 2012, 15:00-17:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

UserSiegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: β€˜Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’

User Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles

UserProfessor Margaret Cox, Emeritus Professor, Department of Forensic Anthropology, Cranfield University and Founder of the International Centre for Forensic Excellence.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Summer Studentships Event

UserFormer Summer Students & Careers Advisor.

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

The RNAi therapeutics roller coaster

UserMr Dirk Haussecker (Author of the RNAi Therapeutics blog).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Objectivity in psychology – a Kantian perspective

UserKatharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: β€˜Carbon Foot-Printing’

UserJon Coello, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Giving wildlife an edge on the Middle Level waterways

UserCliff Carson, Environment Officer, Middle Level Commissioners.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Bioregional Economy - A talk by Molly Scott Cato

UserMolly Scott Cato, professor of Strategy and Sustainability at Roehampton University, Green Party spokesperson on economics and a Director of Transition Stroud..

HouseSt. Philip’s Church Centre, 185 Mill Road, Cambridge, CB1 3AN.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 19:30-22:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Evolution of clonally transmissible cancers in dogs and Tasmanian Devils

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison (Junior Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Aesthetics in science

UserAngela Breitenbach (Philosophy, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Are We Alone?

UserDr. Robin Catchpole, Emeritus Researcher, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality?

UserMatias Attwel - Director of Social and Mobile Media of Terra LatinoamΓ©rica; Nico Perez - Co-founder of Mixcloud; Professor Jon Crowcroft (host) - Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

HouseTrinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 17:30-19:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The Peckham Experiment

UserBoris Jardine (Science Museum, London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Using selfish genes to reduce malaria

UserProf. Charles Godfray (Hope Professor, Oxford and President, British Ecological Society).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 19:00-20:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

UserKristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings

UserProfessor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 05 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Philosophy Events

Inaugural Lecture: Where would we be without counterfactuals?

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseLB3, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Diagnostics

UserProf. Chris Lowe (Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, Cambridge).

HouseWinstanly Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

'Losing your world while falling asleep'

UserDr Tristan Beckinstein, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Systematic dissection of the molecular and neural basis of behaviour

UserDr Mario de Bono (Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseLarge Lecture Theater, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

CSAR Green Energy Debate

UserProfessor Keith Tovey,Professor Andy Woods,Lucy Fielding,Megan Davies Sykes,Hugh Parnell,Robin Nicholson.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

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

UserSophie Brockmann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns

UserProfessor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

What is a fungal foray?

Note this is on FRIDAY 19th October (not Thursday as usual).

UserHélène Davies.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Arctic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The Whipple Museum is full of rubbish!

UserNicky Reeves (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 October 2012, 13:00-14:15

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific pluralism and the mission of history and philosophy of science

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang

UserHasok Chang (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 16:45-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Science funding 2.0

UserShahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

UserProfessor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 October 2012, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Visit

UserJason Cole, Deputy Executive Director CCDC.

HouseCCDC, 12 Union Road, Cambridge, CB2 1EZ.

ClockThursday 13 September 2012, 19:00-20:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

3D EDS Microanalysis by FIB-SEM: limitations, potential and perspectives

UserPierre Burdet, Interdisciplinary Centre for Electron Microscopy (CIME), Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), Station 12, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockMonday 25 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again?

UserColm O’Shea, Founder, Comac Capital and Jamie MacIntosh, Director of the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies, University College London.

HouseTBC.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-19:30

Mordell Lectures

Categorical dynamics

UserPaul Seidel (MIT).

HouseMR2, CMS.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 17:00-18:00

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.

UserDr James Grime - University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

PlanEAT: Dinner and a Movie

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoss Street Community Centre.

ClockFriday 08 June 2012, 18:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Note tickets are Β£8 each and MUST be reserved before the event as numbers are very limited

UserGuides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden, Brookside Gate entrance.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 18:30-20:00

HPS History Workshop

Conceptual change in history of science

UserIrene Goudarouli (University of Athens).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The sciences of subjectivity

Special seminar: please note this will be held on a Wednesday

UserSteven Shapin (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

UserMatthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Emergence in complexity science

UserLena Zuchowski (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Young Nanoscientist India Award Winner's Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

Terahertz wave detection based on low-dimensional electron

UserDr Yukio Kawano, Associate Professor,Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Physics, Department of.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bacteria as Active Colloids

UserProfessor Wilson Poon, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics SUPA and School of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

Rausing Lecture

The modern rise of surgery: gloves as a technology of control

Seventeenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserThomas Schlich (McGill University).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

World History Workshop

Caste, Public Policy and Health: Living Standards in South India 1910-1940

UserAntonia Strachey, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College.

ClockThursday 24 May 2012, 14:30-16:00

HPS History Workshop

From Cook to Cousteau: the many lives of coral reefs

Please note change of speaker and topic

UserAlistair Sponsel (Harvard University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

What makes us happy?

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, The Well-being Institute.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

The Inner Beauty of Crystals

UserIan Mercer, Natural History Museum London (retired).

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 19:00-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Colonial classification

UserKhadija Carroll La (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

HPS History Workshop

The global biopolitics of female sterilization

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and Policy

UserProf Christopher Dobson FRS, and Mr Mark Gorman (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Computational Environment Design for Online Communities

UserProfessor David Parkes, Harvard University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Preserving scientific heritage: collaborating with scientists

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rethinking Research Objectives for the 21st Century

UserProfessor Sir David King, Director, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 19:30-21:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Philosophical issues in research funding allocation

CANCELLED

UserHeather Douglas (University of Waterloo) and Donald Gillies (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockSaturday 28 April 2012, 13:00-17:00

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

UserProfessor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 28 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

What is Pain and how can we treat it?

UserProf. PA McNaughton ( Pharmacology, Cambridge University).

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 27 March 2012, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Evening visit to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Note earlier time. Admission by ticket only (see details of event).

UserKen McNamara.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Story of Stuff - The Next Chapter

UserBev Sedley, Trustee CCF.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

UserDiethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

MMP public and schools' events

A Mathematical Look at the Olympics

UserProfessor John D Barrow (University of Cambridge).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind?

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Metadynamics

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Genetic Screens in Embryonic Stem Cells

UserProfessor Allan Bradley, Director Emeritus, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Colouring the Noise

UserProf Michele Parinello, ETH Zurich.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

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

UserJosΓ© RamΓ³n Marcaida (Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Advanced Recycling

UserMark Buckton, Cambridge City Council.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 19:30-21:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Metaphors, similarities and inferences

UserMauricio SuΓ‘rez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and LSE).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

HPS History Workshop

'Mouse No. 48' and 'Mouse No. 73': first gene transfer experiments, 1977–1980

UserDmitriy Myelnikov (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Quantum chemical games of life

UserProfessor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

UserMandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Open your Mind

UserDr Hannah Critchlow, The Naked Scientists, University of Cambridge.

HouseBaroosh Bar (4th floor bar, formerly B Bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 19:30-20:30

History of Medicine Seminars

A pre-peanut history of food allergy

UserMatthew Smith (University of Strathclyde).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Science of Well-Being and its Application to Policy

UserProfessor Felicia Huppert, Director of the Well-being Institute University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

The Economics of Happiness

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street.

ClockSunday 19 February 2012, 02:30-04:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

UserDr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Regulating the Internet

UserMr Simon Hampton, Director of European Public Policy at Google and Prof Derek McAuley, Professor of Digital Economy and Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Giving proteins addresses

UserKathryn Lilley, Cambridge Systems Biology Centre.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 19:00-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

HPS History Workshop

Technological trajectories of hip replacement

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The challenge of the asylum mortuary in early 20th-century Central Europe

UserLeslie Topp (Birkbeck, University of London and CRASSH, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

UserDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Molecular Model Solutions

UserDr Jonathan Goodman, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 09 February 2012, 19:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

UserIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

HPS History Workshop

How to assess influence: Wu Wen-Tsun's work in measure, number and weight

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

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

UserRachel Thomas, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications

G I TAYLOR LECTURE

UserProfessor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The informational gene: semantic concepts in genetics as models

UserRahul Rose (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and Non-science in Drug Policy

Held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Unit Division of Experimental Medicine.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Herbal remedy to Pharmaceutical - the story of Botany and Medicine

UserDr Alison Foster, Senior Curator, University of Oxford Botanic Garden.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science

Organised by Professor Jim Woodhouse

UserProfessor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockFriday 13 January 2012, 09:00-17:30

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

UserProfessor Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queen's Road.

ClockFriday 09 December 2011, 17:30-18:50

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Measuring phonon behaviour with electron diffraction

UserDr Alex Eggeman, Dept of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseAustin Lecture Theatre [Austin Building], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 06 December 2011, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Is water H2O?

Organised by SCI Cambridge & Great Eastern Region, RSC Mid-Anglia Section & CU ChemSoc.

UserProf Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Retrocausality – what would it take?

Please note change of date

UserHuw Price (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

UserStefano Tiozzo, Observatoire OcΓ©anologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

RNA Silencing in Plant and Animal Biotechnology

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

The Meaning of Liberal Learning

UserRight Honourable Michael Gove, MP and Secretary of State for Education.

HouseLG18, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 10 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DZ.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses

UserProfessor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A botanist on Mull

UserLynne Farrell, Botanical Recorder for Mid-Ebudes.

HouseLord Ashcroft International Business School (LAB 005), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Internship Event

UserSally Todd and previous interns.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 17 November 2011, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Thorium Could Save the Planet

UserProfessor Robert Cywinski, School of Applied Sciences, University of Huddersfield.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 14 November 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Cyber Warfare

UserProf Sir Mark Welland, FRS, Prof Paul Cornish, and David Smart.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 17:30-19:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Intermetallic Compounds – Materials for a Knowledge-Based Development in Heterogeneous Catalysis

UserM. ArmbrΓΌster, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, NΓΆthnitzer Str. 40, 01187 Dresden, Germany.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

HPS History Workshop

Private science and public morals: the diary of a late-Victorian teratologist

UserSalim Al-Gailani (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

UserEvelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/UniversitΓ© Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

History of Medicine Seminars

Speaking for the patient as consumer in late 20th-century Britain

UserAlex Mold (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

When nano meets bio: Interdisciplinary applications of electron microscopy

UserProfessor Martin Saunders, Deputy Director Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation and Analysis The University of Western Australia.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Singularist semirealism

UserBence Nanay (University of Antwerp and Peterhouse, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 03 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

UserGregor Bucher, Georg August University GΓΆttingen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

The lecture will be preceeded by the AGM of the society

UserVivienne Parry, OBE, Science writer and broadcaster.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Trick or treatise? Alchemy as natural magic

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

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

UserProf Brian J Ford (President of CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD Event

UserPhD students and others.

HousePlant Sciences Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 18:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Public Policy Lecture Series

Talking to Terrorists

UserJonathan Powell, Former Downing Street Chief of Staff under Tony Blair.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street, Cambridge (Behind The Eagle pub).

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 18:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Buyer beware: robustness analyses in theoretical economics

UserAnna Alexandrova (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Placing a laboratory: botanical buildings in Cambridge around 1900

UserA. Kathryn Schoefert (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Impacts of a Disappearing Artic Sea Cover

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Oceans Physics Group,Dept. Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 15 October 2011, 19:00-21:00

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

UserDr Julian Huppert, Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge.

HouseTodd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 19:45-20:45

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

UserProfessor Rosemary Grant FRS, Princeton University.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

'NHS rationing, NICE or nasty’ The value of statistics

UserDr Linda Sharples, MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Larmor Lecture

This lecture is held jointly with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor John Papaloizou, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:30-19:00

Leica Scientific Forum

Single Molecule Biology: One, two, three and four

Followed by a drinks reception in the Todd Hamied Room

UserProf. Dr. Teakjip Ha, Professor of Physics, Head of Single Molecule Nanometry Group, University of Illinois.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Nanoparticle Shape: Effects and Modeling

UserEmilie Ringe, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockWednesday 14 September 2011, 15:00-16:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Imaging molecules and atoms in motions and reactions by HR-(S)TEM

UserDr Masanori Koshino, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, Japan.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockWednesday 13 July 2011, 15:00-16:00

Leica Scientific Forum

Examples, Molecules, and Methods for Super-Resolution Imaging in Cells with Single Molecules

UserProfessor W. E. Moerner, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

ClockWednesday 29 June 2011, 17:00-18:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

STEM Cathodoluminescence of Individual GaN/AlN Quantum Disks within a single Nanowire

UserLuiz Fernando Zagonel, Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockFriday 24 June 2011, 15:00-16:00

The Hewish Lectures

Building planets and the ingredients for life between the stars

UserProfessor Ewine van Dishoeck Sterrewacht, Leiden.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Learning about learning - a new approach to studying Huntington's Disease

UserProfessor Jenny Morton, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Pharmacology.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 19:30-20:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Kant on psychology as 'physiology of the inner sense'

UserKatharina Kraus (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

History and philosophy of biology: new perspectives?

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Pierre-Olivier MΓ©thot (University of Exeter).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in the service of the developing world

This lecture is now fully booked.

UserProf. Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for International Development.

HouseJudge Business School - Lecture Theatre 3.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

A framework for emergentism(s)

UserOlivier Sartenaer (UniversitΓ© Catholique de Louvain).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Beautiful Experiments in Chemistry

UserPhilip Ball, prizewinning science writer.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Zero Degrees of Empathy

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Postponed

UserProf Sir Martin Evans.

HousePostponed.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 20:00-21:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Cambridge University Botanic Garden visit

UserTour guides (Friends of the Botanic Garden).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Authority waterfalls: an anti-realist model of research impact

UserShahar Avin (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

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

UserDr Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2011, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Doing Mathematics online, and in the open

UserProfessor Tim Gowers, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 May 2011, 19:30-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Director-General of the BBC

UserMark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

UserDr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Why We Resist The Truth

UserClive Hamilton, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra.

HouseMichaelhouse, St. Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Camb CB2 1SU.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 19:30-21:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Sir Richard Dearlove

UserSir Richard Dearlove.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Profiling of Horses

Please note this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserSusan Gurney, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Genes into Geometry: Imaging for mouse phenotyping

UserMark Henkelman, Department of Medical Biophysics and Medical Imaging, University of Toronto.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 21 April 2011, 13:00-14:00

YES! to Fairer Votes

Referendum Debate

UserVoting YES: Peter Facey, Director of Unlock Democracy. Voting NO: Richard Normington, Former Conservative Parliamentary Candidate..

HouseSt. Lukes United Reform Church, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockMonday 11 April 2011, 19:30-21:00

Art Cell Gallery Exhibtions

'April is the Cruellest Month...'

UserCinnamon Heathcote-Drury, Stefanie Reichelt, Jim Haseloff, Fernan Federici and Andrea Baczynski.

HouseArtCell Gallery @ Caner Research UK.

ClockSaturday 09 April 2011, 12:00-17:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Bird tango

UserProfessor Nicky Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseNewnham College.

ClockSunday 27 March 2011, 15:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The hidden mysteries within the DNA of cancers

UserProfessor Mike Stratton, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Is evolution predictable?

UserProfessor Simon Conway Morris, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseHicks & Mead Rooms, University Centre, Granta Place.

ClockWednesday 23 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

High Temperature Superconductors

Venue back to normal

UserProfessor David A Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction Sector

UserProf. Jeremy Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Communities & Local Government and Global Research Director of Arup.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

UserProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Population thinking, statistical autonomy, and Biology's First Law

UserJoeri Witteveen (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS

UserProfessor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, DΓ©partement de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Images from the dawn of science - Observing the origins of modern microscopy

UserProf. Brian J. Ford, President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 19:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

UserProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

This Time it Will be Different

UserSir Rodric Braithwaite GCMG.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, DΓ©partement de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mathematics of Complex Systems

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Ray Goldstein, Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe MΓΈller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I - Quantum Interference

A Drinks Reception will follow the lecture in the Pippard Lecture Theatre Foyer

UserProf Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, DΓ©partement de Physique de l'ENS.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in Emergencies

Talk open to All - Registration required for reception

UserAndrew Miller, MP and Chair for the Science and Technology Select Committee.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

World History Workshop

War and trade in West Africa, 1750-1775

UserJosh Newton (King’s College).

HouseLibrary Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 13:30-15:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

UserDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Newtonian vegetables and perceptive plants

UserSusannah Gibson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

UserProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Peanut Allergies

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserDr Andrew Clark, Consultant in Paediatric Allergy, Addenbrooke's NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseThe MΓΈller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Untangling Alzheimer's disease

UserMr Graham Fraser, Department of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseB Bar (4th floor bar), 6 Market Passage, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 19:30-20:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency

UserMargareta Wahlstrom, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Healthcare and welfare in contemporary Kenya

UserRuth Prince (Cambridge Centre of African Studies).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Carbon Footprint

Zero Carbon Britain 2030

UserGodfrey Boyle (Professor of Renewable Energy and director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University. Visiting professor at The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) University in New Dehli,India) and Alex Randall (Media Officer.

HouseSt Luke’s Church Centre, Victoria Road, Cambridge CB4 3DZ.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 19:30-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ocean forcing of ice sheet change in West Antarctica

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE

UserDr Adrian Jenkins, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

HouseThe MΓΈller Centre, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 February 2011, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks

UserProfessor Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

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.

UserProfessor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

The poisoner's regress: on orientalism and natural history

UserSimon Schaffer (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 31 January 2011, 13:00-14:15

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 29 January 2011, 10:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

UserJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

What have the planets got to do with the metals? Scientific axioms and astrology.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 19:00-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

UserProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

HPS History Workshop

Pregnancy testing and the 1930s controversy over the hormonal placenta

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

History of Medicine Seminars

Spaces of healing: Byzantium and medieval Islam compared

UserPeregrine Horden (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

UserProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE

UserSpeakers: Professor Jim Barber (Imperial), Professor John Gray, Professor Neil Greenham, Professor Gehan Amaratunga, Professor Chris Howe, Dr Adrian Fisher, Dr Richard Douthwaite (York). Organisers: Professor Alison Smith and Professor Archie Howie.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 07 December 2010, 09:00-17:30

Medieval Medicine Discussion Group

Somnambulism, violence and imagination in medieval medicine

Please note change of time and venue

UserWilliam MacLehose (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 17:00-18:30

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

UserLiz Woodham - NRICH, University of Cambridge.

HouseCMS.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Human Contact Networks

UserDr Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Mutable mobiles: the circulation of botanical maps between Humboldtian Germany and Victorian Britain

UserNils Guettler (Humboldt University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 29 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in Parliament

The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 5:15pm

UserJulian Huppert, PhD, Member of Parliament for Cambridge..

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The making of the medieval English therapeutic landscape

UserHilary Powell (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

London 2012 Olympic Games

UserDenis Oswald, Chairman of the IOC's London 2012 Olympic Commission.

HouseJudge Business School, LT2.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy in the UK

UserDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy & Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The human automatism debate in the late 19th century

UserFrancis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

MMP public and schools' events

Hands-on Cambridge Maths Circle workshop: Algorithms

UserProfessor Tom KΓΆrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

HouseCMS.

ClockSaturday 13 November 2010, 10:15-11:15

MMP public and schools' events

Cambridge Maths Circle

UserStaff and students, Cambridge Mathematics Faculty.

HouseCMS.

ClockSaturday 13 November 2010, 10:00-12:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Don't Look Now: Representations of Violence in Media

UserAnthony Lane, Film Critic, The New Yorker magazine.

HouseBateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

DNA and Cancer

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit.

HouseBar Area, Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2010, 19:30-20:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'Wir sind alle Afrikaner': a brief history and philosophy of the biological 'race' concept

UserRasmus GrΓΈnfeldt Winther (University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of Copenhagen).

HouseSeminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Tanner Lectures

Tanner Lectures 2010: Respondents' Discussion

UserKate Barker, Gavin Wood, Marja Elsinga, Matthew Bullock.

HouseRobinson College Umney Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 09:30-13:00

Tanner Lectures

Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?

Tickets for this event can be picked up from the Porters' Lodge (32360)

UserProfessor Susan Smith FBA, Mistress of Girton College.

HouseRobinson College Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Nature and the space of reasons

UserAlexis Papazoglou (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

CANCELLED

UserDr Julian Hibberd.

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Modelling of Anaesthetics

This lecture will be preceded by the society's AGM

UserDr Pak-Lee Chau, Bioinformatique Structurale, CNRS URA 2185, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Politeness and the ethical force of natural history

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 13:00-14:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Organisms, autonomy and division of labour

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

'Dementia and an ageing society'

Please note a change in day and venue.

UserProfessor Carol Brayne, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseBar Area, Arts Picturehouse, St. Andrews Street, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 19:30-20:30

HPS History Workshop

Representational practices and the ethics of natural history, 1650–1720

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Note venue change

UserProfessor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-18:30

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.

UserProfessor Michael Green, FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAPTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museum Site.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Some aspects of early Darwinian commemoration

UserCarl Fisher (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 13:00-14:15

Fitzwilliam Museum

Work in Progress: Nick Turvey

UserNick Turvey.

HouseThe Fitzwilliam Museum.

ClockSaturday 10 July 2010, 13:15-13:45

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Agnes Martin

UserMichael Harrison, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 24 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

UserSebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 17 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Gambling and the brain

UserDr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 16 June 2010, 19:30-20:30

The Hewish Lectures

Paths to Discovery in Radio Astronomy – Prediction and Serendipity

User Professor Ron Ekers, Australia National Telescope Facility CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2010, 16:15-17:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon

UserSebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockSaturday 05 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Agnes Martin

UserMichael Harrison, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 03 June 2010, 13:10-13:40

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

NATO in the 21st Century

UserAdmiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) / Commander, US European Command.

HouseTBC.

ClockMonday 31 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

World History Workshop

Regional Historiography Workshop 3

UserDr Andrew Arsan, Michael Gladwin, Andrew MacDonald, Josh Newton, Matt Butler and Charlie Laderman.

HouseThe Parlour, Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 28 May 2010, 10:00-16:00

Rausing Lecture

From scientific instruments to musical instruments: the tuning fork, metronome and siren

Fifteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserMyles W. Jackson (Polytechnic Institute of New York University and the Gallatin School of NYU).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Elisabeth Vellacott

UserSebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Prostate cancer imaging: from cell to man

UserJohn Kurhanewicz, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Urology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 11:30-12:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Molecular and functional imaging of cancer

UserZaver Bhujwalla, Professor of Radiology and Oncology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 10:45-11:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Magnetic resonance microscopy

UserG. Allan Johnson, Charles E. Putman Professor of Radiology, Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Duke University.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 10:00-10:45

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Happy Danes

Please note that this lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Luisa Corrado, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

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

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Fitzwilliam Museum

Objects of History: with Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum

UserNeil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum.

HouseThe Fitzwilliam Museum.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 18:00-20:00

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

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 19 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe

This lecture is for a general audience.

UserKip S Thorne, The Feyman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech , USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

World History Workshop

MPhil Discussion Group

UserNabihah Iqbal, Max Reibman and Faridah Zaman.

HouseLibrary Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 13:30-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Henry Moore

UserSebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 13:10-13:40

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)

UserProfessor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

UserProfessor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Holographic Technologies

UserDr T D Wilkinson, Reader in Photonic Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 19:30-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory

UserProfessor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Cloning, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: The World After Dolly

UserProfessor Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HouseCambridge Union Society.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) Scholar Presentations & Networking Event

FREE & OPEN TO ALL

UserClaire Stanley, Fionn O'Hara & Simon Beaumont.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 17:00-19:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Meet the Curator

UserElizabeth Fisher, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Ape Research in Indonesia - Marrying Science with Conservation

UserDr Susan Cheyne, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 19:30-20:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Science - facts and frictions

UserDr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 18:30-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Brood Parasitism

UserDr Clair Spottiswoode, Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 26 April 2010, 19:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Barbara Hepworth

UserSebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging studies of dissolution phenomena in pharmaceutical delivery devices

UserMick Mantle, Assistant Director of Research, Magnetic Resonance Research Centre, University of Cambridge and Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Italo Valenti

UserSebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 08 April 2010, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Tim Head: Raw Material

UserElizabeth Fisher, Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AQ.

ClockThursday 25 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Jumping to Delusions - how the brain takes dangerous shortcuts

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 March 2010, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Simon Schaffer, Department of History of Philosophy and Science.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 14 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

World History Workshop

Regional Historiography Workshop 2

UserMurat Şiviloğlu, Jake Norris, John Slight, Andrew Arsan, Oliver Coates and Andrew MacDonald.

HouseThe Parlour, Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 12 March 2010, 10:00-16:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Winifred Nicholson

UserSebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Lessons from the Obama Campaign: Making the Obama Digital Model Work in Politics and Beyond

UserJoe Rospars, New Media Director for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign.

HouseCambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 18:30-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

UserProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 4

UserLutz Becker - Kettle's Yard Curatorial Fellow.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 13:10-13:40

HPS History Workshop

Edmund Selous: birdwatching and interpreting animal behaviour in Britain, 1900

UserKathryn Ticehurst (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

UserSebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mathematical culture in Elizabethan England

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Building in the UK

UserDavid Adamson, Director of Smarter Construction in the Office of Government Commerce.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

UserProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Alfred Wallis

UserSebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Our Place in the Cosmos

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Environmental Citizenship

UserAndrew Dobson (Professor of Politics, University of Keele).

HouseDownstairs at The Anchor pub, Silver Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 18:45-20:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cities of the Future

UserPaul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc..

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

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

UserProfessor Peter Wadhams, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The 'economic' metaphor in biology: a case study

UserNatasha Goldberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Reflections on Darwin 2009: a discussion

UserJim Secord (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) & Peter C. Kjaergaard (Universities of Aarhus & Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

UserProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

World History Workshop

The Popular Front and French India

UserAkhila Yechury (Clare Hall).

HouseLibrary Seminar Room, 1st Floor, St. John's Library.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 13:30-15:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 3

UserMichael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Nuclear Energy, Radiation and the Environment

UserProfessor Wade Allison, Fellow of Keble College and Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford.

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 20:00-21:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof Kevin Warwick - Cyborg Experiments

UserProf Kevin Warick, Professor for Cybernetics at the University of Reading.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Imaging Cancer

Please note this week the lecture is on Tuesday not Monday

UserDr Kevin Brindle, Cancer Research Institute/Dept. Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty.

HouseBristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 14 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

UserProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben Nicholson's prints and textiles

UserSebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

UserBarry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Incongruent counterparts, orientation, and higher geometry

UserNicholas Teh (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The constructive idea: art and science in '30s London and Cambridge

UserBoris Jardine (Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2010, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

UserProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 2

UserLutz Becker - Kettle's Yard Curatorial Fellow.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 13:10-13:40

HPS History Workshop

Title to be confirmed

UserJiri Hudecek (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

White maps of Africa – the making of blank spaces

UserNils Petter HellstrΓΆm (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Stem Cells: Overcoming the Embryo

Please Note this lecture is not on a Monday

UserProfessor Austin Smith, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

UserProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's Drawings

UserSebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Pandemic! Where do new infections come from?

UserDr Chris Smith, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 19:30-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Roadmap to 2050

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Causation and exceptions

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Medicine Discussion Group

Reconstructing Old English anatomical vocabulary

UserConan Doyle (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

HouseLodge Seminar Room, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

UserDr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

All CRASSH events

Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote Lecture

UserSir Michael Rawlins (National Institute of Clinical Excellence).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Modern Times 1

UserMichael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 13:10-13:40

HPS History Workshop

Nunataks: historical phytogeography and botanical nation building in 1930s QuΓ©bec

UserJesse Olszynko-Gryn (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gravitational Lensing

UserDr Lindsay King, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 January 2010, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

UserDavid Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

World History Workshop

Regional Historiography Workshop

UserAkhila Yechury, Sunil Purushotham, Andrew Jarvis, Su Lin Lewis, Rachel Leow, Stefanie GΓ€nger, Matt Butler, Carrie Gibson and Catherine Roberts.

HouseThe Parlour, Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 11 December 2009, 10:00-16:00

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Genetic testing: Truth or Dare?

UserDr Caroline Wright (PHG Foundation).

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 December 2009, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication

An interdisciplinary scientific ONE DAY meeting OPEN TO ALL who are interested

UserSPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 09:00-17:30

CIKC Talks

Photonics Beyond 1550nm

UserDr Harvey Beere, Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge.

HouseCAPE building seminar room 21-23. 9 JJ Thomson Ave. CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 04 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri

UserLizzie Fisher, exhibitions curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 13:10-13:40

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The epistemology of memory

UserJonathan Birch (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

UserDorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Cyberknife

UserMark Brenner, MD, Chief of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife Center.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatre 9.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Robotic Surgery

UserProfessor David Neal, Professor of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Research UK.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

CIKC Talks

Computational Design of Semiconductors at the Atomic Scale

UserDr Feliciano Giustino ( University of Oxford).

HouseCAPE building seminar room 21-23. 9 JJ Thomson Ave. CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Communicating science: easy but impossible

UserMichel Claessens, Deputy Head of the Communication Unit in the Research Directorate-General at the European Commission.

HouseLeverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzwilliam Street.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 19:00-20:00

Peterhouse Theory Group

β€œLanguage and Silence in Religious and Continental Philosophy”.

UserProfessor Graham Ward (Manchester University).

HouseThe Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 17:30-19:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Roger Hilton exhibition tour

UserMichael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Tracing human ancestry using DNA

UserDr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of MΓΌnster, Germany.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Lyell's plots

UserAdelene Buckland (Cambridge Victorian Studies Group).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 13:00-14:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Gates Coffeehouse Webinar: Breaking into Politics

UserFour young Europeans and Americans engaged in politics; see website for more info.

HouseOnline webinar; see website to register..

ClockSaturday 21 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

CIKC Talks

New Applications for Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes

UserProf Maurizio Prato, Universita' di Trieste, Italy.

HouseCAPE building seminar room 21-23. 9 JJ Thomson Ave. CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

UserSebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is a thick concept?

UserNiklas MΓΆller (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Designer Zeolites

UserMike Treacy, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Dept of Materials, Oxford and Dept of Physics, Arizona State University, USA.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Laser Photonics

Please note the return to our usual venue

UserDr Bill O'Neill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon

UserSebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Exploiting Bacteria to Battle Cancer

UserDr Guillermo de la Cueva MΓ©ndez (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre).

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 19:30-20:30

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

UserDr Sara Santos, Royal Institution.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Electron Tomography for novel nanostructures

UserDr Juan-Carlos Hernandez, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hearing loss and hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 17:30-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Gates Internal Symposium: Social Science and the Scientific Method

UserVarious student speakers; see website for more information.

HouseLocation and time TBA.

ClockSunday 08 November 2009, 16:30-18:30

CIKC Talks

Computational Design of Semiconductors at the Atomic Scale

UserDr Feliciano Giustino, University of Oxford.

HouseCAPE building seminar room 21-23. 9 JJ Thomson Ave. CB3 0FA.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

SPECTACULAR CHEMISTRY LECTURE

Free & open to all (suitable for families)

UserDr Hal Sosabowski, University of Brighton.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 19:00-20:00

Peterhouse Theory Group

"Music, rhythm, and movement: Why we fill the silence?"

UserDr Jessica Grahn (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge).

HouseThe Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 17:30-19:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

FIB/SEM 3D applications: a progress report

UserDr Martin Ritter, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Science and the Media

Please note our temporary venue

UserQuentin Cooper, Presenter of BBC's "Material World".

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sir David King - 21st Century Challanges

UserSir David King - Former chief scientific advisor to the UK government.

HouseUnion Society Building, 9a Bridge Street.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Naum Gabo

UserSebastiano Barassi, curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

Lady Margaret Lectures

Cancer as a Darwinian Process

UserProfessor Ron Laskey FRS.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Future electron imaging detectors for radiation sensitive samples

UserDr Greg McMullan,MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

PhD or NoT?

UserPhD Students, Career Service, Board of Graduate Studies....

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 18:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Helena Almeida: Writing the Body

(a Festival of Ideas event)

UserDr Alyce Mahon, author and art historian.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Deference at a distance

UserJohn Cusbert (ANU/University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

UserArtyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Marcus du Sautoy - Finding Moonshine

Free Event - The Freshers' Squash

UserMarcus du Sautoy - Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 20:00-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Precession Electron Diffraction in the Transmission Electron Microscope

UserDr Alex Eggeman, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HousePfizer Seminar Room [4th floor], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Plagiarism in Science

Please note our temporary venue

UserProfessor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 19:30-21:00

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

UserNadia Baker, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

Fourth William Pitt Seminar: "A Blueprint for survival"

Invite only - please contact organiser if you are interested in coming.

UserVarious speakers.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College. Dinner in Hall, Pembroke College..

ClockFriday 16 October 2009, 15:30-19:00

Cambridge Advanced Imaging Seminars

Cryo Electron Microscopy: From Molecules to Systems

UserProfessor Wolfgang Baumeister, MPI of Biochemistry, Head of Department of Molecular Structural Biology, Martinsried/Germany.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 17:00-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Introduction to Kettle's Yard

UserMichael Harrison, Director Kettle's Yard.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge CafΓ© Scientifique

Shrinking Down Nutrition: Nanofoods

UserDr Dora Pereira, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

HouseLarkum Studio, ADC Theatre, Park Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 19:30-20:30

C.P. Snow Lectures

C P Snow's Two Cultures Revisited

C.P. Snow Lecture

UserProfessor Lisa Jardine, Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseHamied Theatre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

HPS History Workshop

The meaning of altruism in interwar London

UserNick Whitfield (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mass-Observation's May the Twelfth (1937) as utopian sociology

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosopy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Just listen they're scared: The application of hostage negotiation in everyday life.

UserRichard Mullender, Former member of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, Scotland Yard.

HouseLecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Determining the optical properties of atmospheric carbon species using low-loss EELS

Room changed

UserDr Duncan Alexander, Γ‰cole Polytechnique FΓ©dΓ©rale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

HousePfizer Seminar Room [4th floor], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Fungi in history

UserNick Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 13:00-14:15

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Helena Almeida and recent Portuguese photography

UserPaulo Catrica, photographer.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 08 October 2009, 13:10-13:40

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cradle to Cradle Design

UserBill McDonough William McDonough and Partners.

House Cambridge Unuiversity Engineerintg Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2009, 18:00-19:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

HUNTING THE ANTISOCIAL CANCER CELL

Free & open to all

UserProf. Ron Laskey, MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 October 2009, 19:00-20:00

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Point-of-Care Testing: Challenge and Opportunity in Resource-Limited Settings

Discussion 13:00 – 14:00 (lunch provided)

UserDr. Trevor Peter (Senior Advisor, Diagnostics) and Ms. Maurine Murtagh (Director of Diagnostics), The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative (CHAI).

HouseNational Blood Service Centre, Addenbrooke’s Hospital Site, Long Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2009, 12:00-13:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Radiation damage in metals and polymers

UserR.F. Egerton University of Alberta and National Institute for Nanotechnology Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockWednesday 16 September 2009, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

TALES FROM THE BREWHOUSE

Tickets Β£5 (over 18s only)

UserRichard Naisby, Milton Brewery, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 September 2009, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society

Darwin 2009 Lecture

UserProfessor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockThursday 09 July 2009, 17:30-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

UserSebastiano Barassi, Curator.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 09 July 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Exhibition Tour

UserElizabeth Fisher, Curator of Exhibitions.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 02 July 2009, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

David Jones

UserSebastiano Barassi, Curator.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 25 June 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

UserDr James Grime, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 23 June 2009, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

PRIVATE EVENING TOUR OF THE CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - NOW FULLY BOOKED!

Limited numbers. Tickets: Adults Β£5. Under 16s Β£3.

UserBotanic Garden guides.

HouseCambridge University Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 18:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Alfred Wallis

UserSebastiano Barassi, Curator.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 13:10-13:40

Peterhouse Theory Group

β€œInterfaith relations, scriptural reasoning, and theories of deliberative democracy” (title to be confirmed).

Anyone is welcome to attend.

UserDr Jeff Bailey.Tutor in Public Theology, Westcott House and Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity..

HouseThe Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2009, 17:30-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Autonomy and ontology: freedom in Kant and Heidegger

UserSacha Golob (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 June 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Just one more try will do it!" The Psychology of Gambling

Rescheduled from February

UserDr Luke Clarke (Behavioural and Clinical Neurosciences Institute, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 01 June 2009, 19:30-21:00

Rausing Lecture

Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world

Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserPamela H. Smith (Columbia University).

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Winifred Nicholson

UserSebastiano Barassi, Curator.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Bringing new medicines to market" How the biopharmaceutical industry works

UserDr Melanie Lee DSc (Hon) FMedSci (Executive Vice President of Research and Development, UCB Belgium ).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 19:30-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Exhibition Tour

UserElizabeth Fisher, Curator of Exhibitions.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

UserDr Jenny Gage, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 11:00-12:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What reasons needn't be

UserCiara Fairley (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Mental programs and the frontal lobe

UserProf. John Duncan (Medical Research Council - Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 20:00-21:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

The state of PET for experimental medicine in oncology - current challenges

UserProfessor Pat Price, Ralston Paterson Professor of Radiation Oncology, Christie Hospital, University of Manchester.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Mad women and mad-doctors

UserAlexandra Bacopoulos-Viau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Peterhouse Theory Group

"The war that never was: the mundane and the exceptional in contemporary Brazil".

Anyone is welcome to attend.

UserDr Marta MagalhΓ£es. Centre for Latin American Studies, Cambridge..

HouseThe Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2009, 17:30-19:00

Mordell Lectures

KAM and Rigidity

UserProfessor Anatole Katok (Penn State University).

HouseWolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Lady Margaret Lectures

Socrates versus Darwin

UserProfessor David Sedley FBA.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:15-18:15

Psy Studies

Psychoanalysis and war

CANCELLED

UserEli Zaretsky (New School for Social Research, NY, and Institut du Temps PrΓ©sent, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Life Science Interface Seminars

A Journey in the World of Molecules

NOBEL LAUREATE Linacre Lecture

UserProfessor Jean-Marie Lehn, Institut de Science et d’IngΓ©nierie SupramolΓ©culaires, UniversitΓ© Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.

HousePalmerston Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:00-18:15

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

William MCDonough (CANCELLED)

UserWilliam McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle".

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 00:00-00:00

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Examples

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 16:15-17:15

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.

UserGary Knight. VII Photo Agency.

HouseUpper Hall, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:30-19:00

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

UserPavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:15-18:30

Brain and Consciousness

Learning, Stress and Integrated Brain-functioning

Refreshments served from 17.30

UserDirector, Centre for Brain Consciousness and Cognition, Iowa, USA.

HouseBateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College, CB2 1TA.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 18:30-20:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

A 21st Century View of National Security

UserSir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College and former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

HouseBoys Smith Room, Fisher Building at St. John's College.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 18:00-20:00

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : Methodologies

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

HPS History Workshop

Placing trust in photographs – photography and the illustrated press

UserGeoff Belknap (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

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

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road (www.scisoc.com for directions).

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 18:00-22:00

Scott Lectures

Physics and Complexity : An Overview

UserProfessor David Sherrington, FRS, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 16:15-17:15

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ART MEETS SCIENCE – THE STORY OF LAPIS LAZULI & ULTRAMARINE

Free & open to all.

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton-Kerr Institute, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 19:00-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Christopher Wood

UserSebastiano Barassi.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 13:10-13:40

Life Science Interface Seminars

Imaging the signals and events that shape embryonic development

sponsored by the Leica Scientific Forum

UserScott Fraser, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena/USA.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 20 April 2009, 17:00-18:15

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

HPV vaccines – a success story from the bench to the clinic

UserProfessor Margaret Stanley, Department of Pathology.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 16:20-16:45

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Recent developments in the genetics of breast and ovarian cancer

UserProfessor Doug Easton, Dep. of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 15:50-16:20

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Endothelial cell function and placental angiogenesis

UserDr Steve Charnock-Jones, Dep. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 14:55-15:20

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Changing concepts of early placental development

UserProfessor Graham Burton, Dep. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 14:00-14:30

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Birth weight and the risk of cardiovascular disease

UserProfessor Gordon Smith, Dep. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 12:20-12:50

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Heart disease link to lack of oxygen in the womb

UserDr Dino Giussani, Dep. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 11:55-12:20

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

The mechanism of intrauterine programming

UserProfessor Abigail Fowden, Dep. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 11:30-11:55

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

Epigenetic control of fetal growth and developmental programming

UserDr Miguel Constancia, Dep. of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 10:10-10:35

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

The importance of imprinted genes for a healthy pregnancy

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dep. of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 09:45-10:10

Horizon Seminars

HORIZON: Reproductive Health

External Conference. Registration is required

UserProgramme to be Confirmed.

HouseMR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

ClockWednesday 01 April 2009, 09:30-17:30

CRASSH events

Cosmic Centers and the Subject of the 21st Century

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

UserShelly Errington (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz).

HouseLecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 27 March 2009, 16:30-18:00

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

UserDr Jenny Gage, Millennium Mathematics Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 27 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

CRASSH events

Screening of: 'Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation' (2004)

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

UserAndre Vltchek (Filmmaker and Political Commentator).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 26 March 2009, 19:30-21:45

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

David Ward

UserMichael Harrison.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 26 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Science Festival

The nature of life - a scientific debate

UserProfessor Lewis Wolpert and Dr Rupert Sheldrake.

HouseRoom 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockFriday 20 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Quantum

UserManjit Kumar.

HouseRoom 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockFriday 20 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Animals and ourselves

UserProfessor Aubrey Manning.

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockFriday 20 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Development of copper markers for PET imaging of tumour hypoxia

UserMartin Christlieb, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, University of Oxford.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 20 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Cafe Scientifique: can we read minds?

Age 12+ (www.neuromedia.eu)

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseThe Michaelhouse, Trinity Street.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 19:30-21:30

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

UserDr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

UserProfessor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA.

HouseWilliam Harvey.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

ReCollection: Kettle's Yard Oral History Project

UserSarah Campbell and Robert Wilkinson.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Science Festival

Quantum anomalies and the origin of time

UserProfessor Shahn Majid.

HouseRoom 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Chemistry saves lives

UserDr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Entering the ecological age

Pre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk)

UserPeter Head, Director of Planning and Integrated Urbanism.

HouseEngineering Department.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Statistics are either dull or wrong:discuss

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 19:30-20:30

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

UserDr David Robinson.

HouseThe Open University in the East of England, Hills Road.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Carbon neutral communities

Pre book (rsdevents@rsd.cam.ac.uk)

UserGerard Evenden, Senior Partner, Foster and Partners.

HouseEngineering Department.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

It is rocket science!

UserHelen Keen.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockMonday 16 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Sustainable energy - without the hot air

UserProfessor David Mackay.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 13 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Darwinspotting in 2009: Are there any real ones out there?

UserDr Peter C. Kjærgaard, Visiting Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Arcadia Lectures

Cultural Agoraphobia and the Future of the Library: the first Arcadia Lecture

UserProfessor James Boyle, Duke University.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Science Festival

How your mobile phone works

UserChris Cox.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

A taste of teaching: D&T and Sciences

This event is for adults only

UserElaine Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Science Education and Raza Shah, Subject Lecturer in Design and Technology Education.

HouseFacutly of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Arp's Sculptural Concretions

UserEric Robertson.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 13:10-13:40

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

The Art of Science Story-telling on Film

UserDavid Dugan, Chairman, Windfall Films.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Making the most of our minds

UserSponsored by Science AAAS.

HouseJudge Business School.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Innovating to sustainability

UserProfessor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Marshall - one hundred years in Cambridge

UserTerry Holloway.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Lady Margaret Lectures

Darwin and Genetics: 1909 and 2009

UserProfessor Marsha Richmond, Dept of History, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

HouseYusuf Hamied Centre, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 17:15-18:15

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Where do the laws of logic come from?

UserFlorian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

UserRahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Darwin in a global context

UserProfessor Jim Secord and Professor John Parker.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

THE POPULATION FACTOR- HOW DOES IT RELATE TO CLIMATE CHANGE?

UserProfessor Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor, Community Health and Human Development, Berkeley, University of California.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Can science beat terrorism?

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Why do we like to eat?

UserDr Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow at Addenbrookes.

HouseUniversity Centre.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Machines that see

UserProfessor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

UserProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

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!!

UserBen Shneiderman, Professor, Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland.

HouseMicrosoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 18:40-20:15

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy

UserNigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport

UserDr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 15:30-16:30

HPS History Workshop

Visual organisation of heavenly knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

RESPONDING TO CHANGES IN NATURE

UserChris Smith (Lord Smith of Finsbury), Chairman of the Environment Agency; former MP and Cabinet Minister; former President Cambridge Union Society.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

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

UserProfessor Imre Leader.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

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

UserProfessor Derek Smith (Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Soldiers in the laboratory – the militarisation of the university

UserDr Chris Langley, Scientists for Global Responsibility.

HouseGraduate Union, Lounge.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 19:30-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Vaccine Development in the Year 2100

UserDr. James P. Nataro, University of Maryland..

HouseRiley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 18:00-19:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Lent Internal Symposium 2009

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/GatesInternalSeminar.mp3

UserJoshua R. Cook, Will Smiley, Oleksandr Poplavskyy, Joseph C. Bonneau, University of Cambridge.

HouseGates Common Room, Cambridge.

ClockSunday 01 March 2009, 16:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

UserProfessor Steve Jones, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben and Winifred Nicolson in Winter

UserMichael Harrison.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Standing up for Science

UserLeonor Sierra, Scientific Liaison, Sense About Science.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

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!

UserDavid MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 19:30-21:45

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

UserProfessor Ray Goldstein, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

UserCarsten Wolff, Humboldt-UniversitΓ€t zu Berlin, Institut fΓΌr Biologie, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

CAN WE ADAPT THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IN TIME?

UserProfessor Michael Kelly, Prince Philip Professor, Cambridge; Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government, London.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

UserProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Giving of ourselves

UserDr Ayesha Nathoo, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseGraduate Union, Lounge.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

IMPROVING OUTCOMES FOR CANCER PATIENTS

Free & open to all

UserDr Rebecca Fitzgerald, Hutchison-MRC Cancer Cell Unit, Research Centre, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Julius Bissier

UserSebastiano Barassi.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

POSTPONED until next term

UserAlok Jha, Science and Environment correspondent, The Guardian.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 20:00-21:00

HPS History Workshop

God, king, and geometry: Cauchy's reactionary rigour

UserMichael Barany (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

CREATING NEW AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

UserProfessor Peter Guthrie, Professor of Engineering for Sustainable Development, Cambridge; Fellow, St Edmund’s College.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Cambridge and the Environment

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/ViceChancellorRichards.mp3

UserProfessor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

HouseHicks Room, University Centre.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

CANCELLED !!! "Uncovering and Exploiting Chinks in Cancer's Armour" - CANCELLED !!!

UserProf Alan Ashworth (Institute of Cancer Research Director – London).

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 00:00-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

UserProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

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

UserProfessor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:15-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

'A falling star' – the sovereign self in Otto Weininger

Jointly hosted with CRASSH, and held in their seminar room at 17 Mill Lane

UserLouis Sass (Rutgers University, New Jersey).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

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

UserProfessor John D. Barrow, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Italo Valenti

UserSebastiano Barassi.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Water, health and sustainable development

UserDr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Defending shallow essentialism

UserNathan Wildman (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

SMARTLIFE: GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE

UserDavid Arkell, Director, SmartLIFE and Head of Innovation & Partnerships, Cambridgeshire County Council.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development?

UserDr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Long in the tooth: a study of a set of papier-mache horses' teeth

UserBecky Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 09 February 2009, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

UserProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The Antikythera Mechanism Research Project - a timely update

Please note change of venue

UserVarious speakers.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 3.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

'The Strangest Dream' - film showing (hosted with Triple Helix)

UserProfessor Robert Hinde, St John's College, Cambridge.

HouseGraduate Union, Lounge.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 19:30-21:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

INTEGRATING ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION SOLUTIONS

UserProfessor Julian Hunt (Lord Hunt of Chesterton), Professor of Climate Modelling, University College, London.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Hans Richter

UserSebastiano Barassi.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 13:10-13:40

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

UserDr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the executive vice president of the Orthodox.

HouseUnion Debating Chamber at 9a Bridge Street.

ClockMonday 02 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Genetics Seminar Series

Building bridges between genes, brains and language.

http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1512

UserDr Simon Fisher - WTC for Human Genetics, University of Oxford..

HousePart II room, Department of Genetics.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 14:30-16:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Ben Nicholson and William Scott

UserMichael Harrison.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 13:10-13:40

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

ADAPTATION IN POOR COUNTRIES

UserDr Flavio Comim, Senior Economist, United Nations Development Programme, Brazil and CSC/VHI, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

UserProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Diagnostic and prognostic MRS-based biomarkers for brain tumours: human and animal model studies

UserCarles ArΓΊs, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universitat AutΓ²noma de Barcelona, Spain.

HouseCancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

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

UserDr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Scientific Images Discussion Group

The Historiography of the Scientific Image

UserChitra Ramalingam (Harvard University).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

RETHINKING PERSONAL MOBILITY: POLICY, TECHNOLOGY AND SYSTEMS THINKING

UserDr Bernie Bulkin, Commissioner for Energy and Transport, UK Sustainable Development Commission.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

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

UserDr Kirsty McDougall (Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Seminars on Adaptation to Climate Change

ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE: NECESSITIES AND PRIORITIES

UserProfessor Martin Parry, Chair, IPCC's Task Group on Scenarios for Climate Impact Assessment.

HouseSt Edmund’s College, Garden Room.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Physics of Living Matter 3

registration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you

Userregistration is now closed as the meeting is oversubscribed, thank you.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Angiogenesis imaging for human drug development: decision making tools or decorations?

UserAnwar Padhani, Consultant Radiologist and Head of Imaging Research, Paul Strickland Scanner Centre, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood.

HouseLecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells

REGISTER BY EMAIL TO: philosoc@hermes.cam.ac.uk

UserSPEAKERS: Peter Andrews, Robin Lovell-Badge, James Byrne, Ian Chambers, Kevin Eggan, Martin Evans, Stephen Minger, Alison Murdoch and Kevin Shakesheff, CHAIRED BY: Chris Graham and Richard Gardiner, ORGANISERS: Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and John Gurdon.

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 09:00-18:00

CRASSH events

Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st century

Closing date for registration is 5 December 2008. Fees range from Β£20 - Β£60. See here: https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/esales/confbookvmuh/intro.cgi

UserAbbas Alhussainy, Michael Barry, Reinhard Bernbeck, Patrick Boylan et al.

HouseGonville & Caius, Stephen Hawking Building.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 09:00-17:00

CRASSH events

Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo

UserMargaret Miles, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 11 December 2008, 17:45-18:45

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Graphics Workshop

UserAdam Moughton(University of Cambridge).

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 19:00-20:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Status of human tissues

UserAlix Rogers (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sustainable Energy - without the hot air

UserProf David J C Mackay (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 01 December 2008, 19:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

OBESITY - A GROWING PROBLEM

UserDavid Haslam, MB BS, National Obesity Forum.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Public science and the public good

UserDr Jack Stilgoe (Demos Think Tank).

Housetba.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 19:00-20:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Production Workshop

UserAmy Chesterton.

HouseBalfour Room.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 19:30-20:30

Psy Studies

Can psychometric/educational testing be multicultural? The case of Greenland

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL LENT TERM

UserChristian Ydesen (Centre for Educational Sociology, Edinburgh).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

HPS History Workshop

Hunting the phoenix: an alchemical detective story

UserJennifer Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Extreme Natural Hazards

UserHerbert Huppert FRS, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Early Science and Medicine

Space and spectacle in the Renaissance apothecary

UserEvelyn Welch (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008)

UserBenjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others

UserDr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

CIKC Talks

Public policy to foster the creation of university spin-off firms in France

UserProf Philippe Mustar (Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Mines, Paris).

HouseJudge Business School W2.02.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 12:00-14:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Film and audio editing Workshop

UserAmy Chesterton, Kelly Neaves, Chloe Stockford.

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 19:30-20:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation

UserDr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 19:00-20:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Is the pessimistic induction valid?

UserSam Nicholson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Why do we want Aristotle to have been a biologist (given that he wasn't)?

UserAndrew Cunningham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 17 November 2008, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Optimising access and innovation in science and medical R&D

UserDr Tim Hubbard, Head of Informatics and Head of Human Genome Analysis at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseQueen's building seminar room, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 19:30-20:30

Scientific Images Discussion Group

Methodology and the visual image

Please note the different time

UserGeoff Belknap (HPS).

HouseDepartment of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-01:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Listening in Place

UserDr Katharine Norman, City University.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

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!

UserRobert Foley, Professor of Human Evolution, Leverhulme Centre, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science?

UserProfessor Sir John Sulston FRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

UserAngela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Objective consequentialism, criteria of rightness and ignorance

UserJoanna Burch Brown (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Computing for the Future of the Planet

UserProf Andy Hopper CBE FRS, Head of the Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 20:00-21:00

MMP public and schools' events

Particle Hunting at CERN

Open to the general public - suggested age range 16+

UserDr Ben Allanach DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"Something’s come up": The Discovery of New Drugs, (including Cardura, Norvasc and Viagra)

UserDr Simon Campbell CBE (Former President of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Former Pfizer Senior Vice-President for Discovery).

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 03 November 2008, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Internet Censorship and How It Is Resisted

UserDr Steven Murdoch (Computer science department, University of Cambridge).

HouseDirac Room – in the Fisher Building, St John’s College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 19:30-20:30

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

UserTim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:15-18:30

Mordell Lectures

Geometric PDE

The lecture will be followed by a Reception in the Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College from 7 p.m.

UserProf Tobias Colding (MIT).

HouseWolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

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

UserProf Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-19:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Sound and Film Workshop

UserAmy Chesterton, Kelly Neaves, Chloe Stockford.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 19:30-21:00

Festival of Ideas

Millennia of Colour Making

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 18:00-18:45

Whipple Museum of the History of Science

The history of the science of music, 1700 to 1900

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseWhipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:30-19:30

The Hewish Lectures

Pulsars: A Marvellous Serendipity

UserProfessor Dick Manchester, Australia Telescope Facility, CSIRO, Australia.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

HPS History Workshop

'Restitution' in seventeenth-century architecture and natural philosophy

UserAlexander Wragge-Morley (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Festival of Ideas

What's the point of economics?

Pre book on 01223 766766

UserEvan Davis, BBC Today presenter.

HouseRoom 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockMonday 27 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

CIKC Talks

Knowledge on the Move

UserProf Luc Soete - the United Nations University - MERIT/Maastricht.

HouseJudge Business School W2.02.

ClockMonday 27 October 2008, 12:00-14:00

Festival of Ideas

Cambridge and the Meaning of Life

UserProf Alan Macfarlane, Dept of Social Anthropology.

HouseLT1, Judge Business School.

ClockFriday 24 October 2008, 17:00-17:30

Festival of Ideas

China: The World's Only Super-Power in the Late First Millennium

UserProf David McMullen, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseRoom 8-9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Psy Studies

Psychoanalysis, psyche and spirit in the modern world

UserSudhir Kakar (INSEAD, Fontainebleau & Goa).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Into the Unknown: Medieval Travellers, Real and Imaginary

UserProf James Montgomery, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseRoom 8-9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Groundwork for a Humean theory of ideal laws

UserBilly Wheeler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Orford Ness: landscape of war and science

UserSophia Davis (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

The Cultures of Climate Change

Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy

UserOliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse".

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

UserGΓ‘spΓ‘r JΓ©kely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

The Fog of War

UserRobert Hinde, Zoology Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseDarwin College Film Room.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 19:45-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

UserProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

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

UserProfessor Jeremy J Baumberg (NanoPhotonics Centre Department of Physics. University of Cambridge).

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-19:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The evolution of wonder

UserPaul White (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 13:00-14:15

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Stem Cell Initiative

UserProfessor Roger Pedersen, Centre for Regenerative Medicine.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 16:30-17:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Cambridge Physics of Medicine Initiative

registration is required for this event

UserProfessor Athene Donald, Director, Centre for Physics of Medicine.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 16:00-16:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Materials for Medical Engineering

Medical Engineering

UserDr Ruth Cameron, Centre for Medical Materials, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 14:30-15:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Reconstructing the Bacterial Cell Factory

Synthetic Biology

UserDr David Summers, Department of Genetics.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 14:30-15:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Strategies for bringing back function to the damaged nervous system

Medical Engineering (registration is required for this event)

UserProfessor James Fawcett, Centre for Brain Repair.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 14:00-14:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Tools for Engineering Morphogenesis in Plants

Synthetic Biology

UserDr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 14:00-14:30

Horizon: Bioengineering

Molecular assembly lines for drug biosynthesis

Synthetic Biology

UserProfessor Peter Leadley (Department of Biochemistry).

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 13:30-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

UserJeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Horizon: Bioengineering

Collagen mechanics: from basic understanding to clinical applications

registration is required for this event

UserDr Michelle Oyen, Department of Engineering.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 11:15-11:45

Horizon Seminars

Bioengineering

Registration is required

UserProgramme to be confirmed.

HouseMR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 09:30-17:30

Isaac Newton Institute Distinguished Seminars

Cryogenic Turbulence

Institute distinguished event

UserProfessor K Sreenivasan (International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockMonday 29 September 2008, 17:00-18:00

9th Cambridge Immunology Forum - Visions of Immunology

Imaging pH in vivo

To register for this meeting go to http://www.med.cam.ac.uk/nephrology/teaching/roche.html

UserKevin Brindle, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 25 September 2008, 12:00-12:20

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

What to do with the CO2 we can’t eliminate?

UserMr. Derek McLeish (Carbon Sciences Inc).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 14:15-15:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Future of Electric Vehicles & Fuel Cells

UserMr Richard Blundell (Think UK) and Mr Michael Evans (CMR Fuel Cells).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 12:30-13:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Possibilities – Changing How We Approach Design

UserMr. Ross Lovegrove (Lovegrove Studios).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 11:45-12:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Public Policy

UserSpeaker TBC (AEA Technology).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 10:30-11:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Education of Climate Change at Cambridge & Beyond

UserProfessor David Mackay (Cambridge University).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Behaviour Change and the Role of NGOs

UserMr Duncan McLaren (Friends of the Earth Scotland) and Mr Gavin Starks (AMEE).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Solar Power: Incentives for Scaling Up

UserPanel (chair: Prof. Peter Guthrie).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 15:00-15:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Large Scale Deployment of Solar Energy, Working with Policy and Investment

UserProf. Doenitz (MAN/ Solar Millennium), Dr. Joachim Reiss (Q-Cells) and Dr. Harry Zervos (IDTechEx).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Energy Efficient Cities - An Integrated Approach to Achieving Low Carbon

UserProf. Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge) And Clare Shuttleworth (White Young Green).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 11:00-11:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Venture Capital, Risk and the Business of Global Climate Change - A Global View

UserMr. Bernie Bulkin (Vantage Point Venture Capital) and Prof. Michael Manielli (ZYen, London Accords).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Policies for an Environmentally Sustainable Economy

UserMr. Roman Webber (Deliotte) and Paul Ekins (Green Fiscal Commission).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Overview of Alternative Technology Expansion & Its funding

UserFilipe Santos (Martifer Solar) and Sarah Forrest (Goldman Sachs).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 13:15-14:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air

UserProf David Mackay (Cambridge University).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 11:30-12:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Economics of A Zero Carbon Society

UserDr Terry Barker (Tyndall Centre, 4CMR).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 10:45-11:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Global Context of Energy Crisis

UserProf Robert Watson (DEFRA).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 09:30-10:15

Genetics Seminar Series

"Tensegrity, Self Organizing Attractors and Developmental Control"

UserProf. Don Ingber, Departments of Pathology and SurgeryChildren’s Hospital Harvard Medical School.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockMonday 08 September 2008, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Cell Biology Seminar Series

Imaging lysosome dynamics

UserProfessor Dr Judith Klumperman, Cell Microscopy Center, Dept of Cell Biology, University Medical Center Utrecht.

HouseThe Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockMonday 04 August 2008, 16:30-17:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, general interest public talks

The Geometry of the Space of Shapes

Hosted by Prof. Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research)

UserProf. David Mumford (Brown University).

HouseQueen's Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College, CB2 3AP http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/conferences/maps/.

ClockWednesday 09 July 2008, 16:30-17:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Quantitative elemental mapping in biological systems

UserMaria Aronova, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institute of Health, United States of America.

HouseAustin Lecture Theatre, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockMonday 30 June 2008, 15:00-16:00

Craik Club

Identifying novel boundaries within cognitive architecture via repetition suppression brain imaging

UserScott Grafton, Department of Psychology, University of California at Santa Barbara.

HouseSeminar Room (ground floor), Craik-Marshall Building.

ClockThursday 26 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic Structure of Nanoparticles and Their Surfaces

UserProf. Jian Min Zuo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, United States of America.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockThursday 26 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

THE ARMOURERS AND BRASIERS’ CAMBRIDGE FORUM

Usersee http://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/forum/ for details.

HouseBabbage Podium, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2008, 13:30-18:30

Horizon Seminars

The story of jades.

Part of the China Horizon event (this talk open to non-delegates).

UserDr James Lin, Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 18:30-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism

Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm. Everyone is welcome.

UserProfessor Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/cms_misc/media/large_images/drawn_map.gif.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 17:30-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The new riddle of causation

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 16:30-18:00

Horizon Seminars

China

Registration is required

UserHorizon Speakers.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 09:30-17:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Reason in action: a Kantian view of norms

UserSasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetics Seminar Series

"Polyploidy, aneuploidy, and genetic instability".

UserProfessor David Pellman, Havard Medical School..

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 14:30-15:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

UserUrs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

HouseAustin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

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).

UserSir Tim Hunt.

HouseSackler Lecture theatre, CIMR, Addenbrookes.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Isaac Newton Institute Distinguished Seminars

Maps and graphs on surfaces

Institute distinguished event

UserProfessor C Thomassen (Technical University of Denmark).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

What comes next in biological microscopy?

UserBrad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge.

HouseMain Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

HPS History Workshop

The natural and the divine in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN - PRIVATE GUIDED TOUR

LIMITED SPACES SO PLEASE BOOK EARLY

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCambridge Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 18:30-20:00

Rausing Lecture

Shaping postwar Europe: science, technology and American soft power

Thirteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserJohn Krige (Georgia Institute of Technology).

HouseRoom 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Constructive empiricism as an epistemological thesis

UserPaul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Policies for Reducing Personal Carbon

Registration Required:

UserDr Terry Barker, 4CMR, and others.

HousePitt Building, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 13:45-18:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

PET/MR: a new modality for molecular imaging

UserAdrian Carpenter, Head of MRI, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre and Reader in Imaging Sciences, Dept. of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseLecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Psy Studies

Scottish psychotherapy: communion, community and communication

UserGavin Miller (Manchester Metropolitan University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

UserCatherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"I was nowhere near there at the time Guv - honest"

UserProfessor Sir Bob Hepple, Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, former Master of Clare College.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 19:30-21:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Ecological Thought

UserTimothy Morton, UC-Davis.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Microbial Bioenergy Production

Note unusual day: Thursday, not Tuesday

UserProfessor Alison Smith (Department of Plant Sciences).

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre (Tennis Court Road - see http://tinyurl.com/rxaj7 ).

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 20:00-21:00

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.

UserRobyn Scott, Author of "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle".

HouseGates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 17:30-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

UserAndreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

A social construction of health

UserElly Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?

Possibilities and limitations of understanding

UserDr Michael Nedo, Director of The Wittgenstein Archive.

HouseRushmore Room, St Catharine’s College.

ClockMonday 05 May 2008, 19:30-20:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

International environmental governance

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 17:15-18:30

Thinking Society: How is understanding possible?

Understanding in ancient and modern Number Theory

UserProfessor John Coates, Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics.

HouseRushmore Room, St Catharine’s College.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 19:30-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics

UserProfessor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

Psy Studies

The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s

Please note early start

UserBarbara Wurm (Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 16:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

UserAdam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

HPS History Workshop

Thomas Digges' astronomy

UserKatie Taylor (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

www.Antibodies_Direct.com

UserDr Jonathan Milner, Abcam plc, Cambridge Science Park.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 19:30-21:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World

UserNorman Myers, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 17:00-18:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Use of mesoporous materials to overcome reactant incompatibility and for homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

UserProf. Krister Holmberg, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockFriday 25 April 2008, 15:00-16:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 17:15-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

UserJessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Extraction and classification of cellular and genetic phenotypes from automated microscopy data

Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data

UserHuber, W (EBI).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockWednesday 02 April 2008, 11:30-12:30

Psy Studies

Revolution in mind: making the psychoanalytic field, 1870-1945

UserGeorge Makari (Weill Medical College of Cornell University).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 19 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Quirkology: weird psychology

UserProfessor Richard Wiseman.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Design at Ogle

UserTom Karen.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Happiness and heartbreak

UserDr Nick Baylis; Professor Martin Cowie.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

The Fact and Fiction of Robots

UserKathleen Richardson, Department of Social Anthropology.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 16:30-17:00

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Is there anything 'computers still can't do' and does it matter?

User Professor Alison Adam, nformation Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre, University of Salford.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 16:00-16:30

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Can Machines Reason?

UserDr Mateja Jamnik, The Computer Laboratory.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 14:45-15:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Learning Language, Evolving languages

UserProfessor Ted Briscoe, The Computer Laboratory.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 14:45-15:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Making Machines That See

UserProfessor Roberto Cipolla, Department of Engineering.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 14:15-14:45

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Caching Decisions: What Jays Know About Other Minds and Other Times

UserProfessor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 12:45-13:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Learning to Play: Machine Learning in Games

UserDr Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 12:15-12:45

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Reverse-Engineering the Human Motor System

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 11:45-12:15

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Synapse Machines and Mental State

UserProfessor Seth Grant, The Sanger Institute.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 10:00-10:30

Horizon: The Thinking Machine?

Cognitive Information Retrieval Systems

UserProfessor Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering.

HouseQueens Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2008, 09:00-09:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Not Mammoth Steaks Again?!

UserProfessor Martin Jones, Archaeological Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 17 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

Fitzwilliam Museum

A Beautiful Line

UserAllan McRobie, Reader in Engineering at Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseThe Fitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room.

ClockSunday 16 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Extreme Science

UserDr Basil Singer.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 14:15-15:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The aviation heritage of East Anglia

UserTerry Holloway - Marshall's of Cambridge.

HouseArts School Room A, New Museums Site.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 14:00-14:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Learning from nature

UserDr Jonathan wood.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Science Festival

It’s about time

UserAndrew Pontzen.

HouseArts School Room A, New Museums Site.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge Science Festival

The science of Doctor Who

UserDr Paul Parsons.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockSaturday 15 March 2008, 11:00-11:45

Cambridge University Biological Society

The human genome as an RNA machine

UserProf John Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Australia.

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Smart drugs?

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Hidden in rock and frozen in time

UserDr Eric Wolff, BAS; Dr Aradhna Tripati, Dept of Earth Sciences.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourism

UserWill Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic; Duncan Law-Green, National Space Centre.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artists in Momentary Momentum

UserSarah Wood, independent curator.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 13:10-13:40

Cambridge Science Festival

Sustainable energy - without the hot air

UserProfessor David MacKay, Department of Physics.

HouseUniversity Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Regulating Global Capitalism

UserProfessor Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management and Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee, Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme (CBBP) at the Judge Business School.

HouseGates Scholars' Common Room, University Centre.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Acoustics and architecture

UserProfessor Deborah Howard, Department of History of Art.

HouseUniversity Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Fitzwilliam Museum

Art in Context: Two portraits by Bartel Beham

UserDavid Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints, The Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseThe Fitzwilliam Museum.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Mind-dependence and realism about the mind

UserMark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

UserGerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserAlexandra Woolgar.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Preserve the old, but know the new

UserDr Ann Prentice, Medical Research Council.

HouseUniversity Centre, Mill Lane, cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?

Student Papers and Grand Discussion

Is our university a place of free thinking?

UserMishko Hansen, Karin Doolan, Antoine PanaΓ―oti.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops?

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

The big experiment

UserDr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserProfessor David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost

UserMelanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

UserProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

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?

UserDr. Priyamvada Gopal (Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge).

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Arrol Adam Lecture Series

The risk of terrorism

UserSir Richard Dearlove, former Head of the Secret Intelligence Service.

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 18:00-20:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing China

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserSian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University, Hong Kong.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 17:15-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Eric Gill, Inscription

UserSebastiano Barassi.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 13:10-13:40

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Lapis Lazuli

UserDr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2008, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Nanoelectronics and Quantum Computing

UserDr David Williams, Head of the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 19:30-21:00

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?

UserProfessor Malcolm Schofield (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge).

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cosmological Serendipity

UserSimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

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?

UserDr Drew Milne (Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 19:30-20:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artist Animators

UserSarah Evans.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking?

Freedom, Technology and Terror

Is our university a place of free thinking?

UserProfessor Ross Anderson (Security Engineering).

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

FREEDOM, TECHNOLOGY AND TERROR

UserProfessor Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 18:00-19:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Practical judgement: a Kantian perspective

UserSasha Mudd (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

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?

UserDr Don MacDonald.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2008, 19:30-20:30

Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Seminar Series

Local protein synthesis at synapses

Join us after the lecture for sandwiches and sushi

UserProfessor Erin Schuman, California Institute of Technology.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserProfessor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development

UserDr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh).

HouseCRASSH Meeting Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project

UserIris Montero Sobrevilla (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

UserJanet Cardiff, Eric Clarke, Michael Bull, Graham Jeffrey, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Juliana Hodkinson, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 10:00-18:00

Arrol Adam Lecture Series

Risk in Prisons

UserPhil Wheatley, HM Prison Service.

HouseFitzwilliam College Auditorium.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 18:00-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century

UserAndreas Mayer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

William Congdon, Views of Venice

UserSebastiano Barassi.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

HPS History Workshop

Zhang Jingsheng and the β€˜sexual field’ in 1920s China

UserLeon Rocha (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

UserJordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

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.

UserProfessor Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University.

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 17:30-19:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserStefanie Reichelt (CR UK Cambridge Research Institute) and Sara Booth (Palliative Care), Addenbrooke's Hospital.

HouseAlice Fisher Lecture Theatre, S Block, Addenbrooke's Site.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Breaking Abbe's barrier: diffraction-unlimited resolution in far-field optical microscopy

UserProfessor Stefan Hell, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, GΓΆttingen.

HouseBiochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Rebuilding the Colossus of the Modern World

UserTony Sale, Hon Fellow of the British Computer Society.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Distancing animals in medieval chronicles

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserBrigitte Resl (University of Liverpool).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 13:00-14:15

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Saturday Workshops with John Greening

UserJohn Greening.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockSaturday 16 February 2008, 14:30-17:00

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

EarthTalk

UserDr Sally Gibson and Dr Lyall Anderson, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockSaturday 16 February 2008, 13:30-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity in Political Life

UserOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

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

UserAdair Turner, Former Director-General of the CBI.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 17:15-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Artist Animators

UserEmily Russell and Kristian de la Riva.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Subjective probability and action guidance

UserMartin Peterson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Sundials and the calendar

NOTE: NEW VENUE AND NEW START TIME

UserDr Frank King, Computer Laboratory.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change

UserKathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

UserSimon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

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

UserProfessor Magdalena Goetz, Institute of Stem Cell Research.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 13:15-14:00

Millennium Mathematics Project

The Disputed Garment Problem: the Maths of Bargaining and Arbitration

UserProfessor Richard Weber, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Constantin Brancusi

UserSebastiano Barassi.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 13:10-13:40

Kettle's Yard Talks and Lectures

Ways of Seeing

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseKettle's Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 10:00-15:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Journey of the Future

UserDr Liz Orme, Director of Transport, Cambridge Consultants.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 04 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

HIV and the Naked Ape

UserProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Cinema and the Art of Animation

UserTrish Sheil, Cambridgeshire Film Consortium.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 13:10-13:40

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The primacy of secondary qualities

UserMike Collins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Imaging the Arctic

UserNick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

UserProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

MRI screening for women at high risk of breast cancer: from genetically based biological differences to tumour growth rate

UserMartin Leach, Co-director of the Clinical Magnetic Resonance Research Group, Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton.

HouseLecture Theatre, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

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

UserProfessor Sally Temple, NY Stem Cell Institute.

HouseBiffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics Department, Tennis Court Road.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 13:15-14:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Travelling 1st class on the Titanic?

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserBarbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 17:15-18:30

Kettle's Yard Lunchtime Talks

Christopher Wood's Self Portrait

UserSebastiano Barassi.

HouseKettle's Yard.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 13:10-13:40

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

New Scientist talk by Graham Lawton

UserGraham Lawton - New Scientist.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

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.

UserProf Elizabeth Morris, Scott Polar research Institute, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 19:00-20:00

CIKC Talks

CIKC IfM Seminar

UserProf Mike Gregory - Institute for Manufacturing.

HouseIfM Seminar Rooms A and B.

ClockWednesday 09 January 2008, 16:00-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

Imaging liver cancer

UserDavid Lomas, University of Cambridge and Department of Radiology, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockFriday 14 December 2007, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Conferences

Turning Points in Solid-State, Materials and Surface Chemistry

UserA symposium to celebrate the 75th birthday of Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS.

HouseFitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 December 2007, 09:00-00:00

CIKC Talks

CIKC Judge Business School and Centre for Business Research Seminar

UserProf Arnoud De Meyer and Dr Andrea Mina.

HouseW2.01 Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2007, 15:00-16:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

UserAndreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

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.

UserPROFESSOR JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (Department of History, University of Texas at Austinβ€”Author of β€˜How to Write the History of the New World: History, Epistemology, and Identities in the 18th C. Atlantic World’).

HouseThe Old Library, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 11 December 2007, 17:30-19:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

ARE WE STAR DUST OR NUCLEAR WASTE?

UserDr Robin Catchpole, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 19:00-20:00

World History Workshop

Globalising Urban Histories: Interdisciplinary approaches to politics, material cultures and ideologies in world cities

Organised by Emma Hunter, Leigh Denault, and Eleanor Newbigin.

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 04 December 2007, 10:00-17:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England

UserBettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 03 December 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Imaging Seminars

The PASADENA method for 13C hyperpolarisation of biomolecules for imaging and spectroscopy

UserPratip Bhattacharya, California Institute of Technology and Huntingdon Medical Research Institute, Pasadena, California.

HouseLecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2007, 14:15-15:15

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.

UserPROFESSOR BARBARA SAHAKIAN, FMEDSCI (Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University).

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war Beirut

UserDominic Perring, Director, Centre for Applied Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

HouseMain Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Hands-free writing

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Drinking in the last chance saloon: what hope for 2Β° C?

UserDr Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester & Dr Terry Barker, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:45-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages

UserKathleen Walker-Meikle (University College London).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:00-14:15

ARClub Talks

The MRC Autism Imaging Multicentre Study (AIMS): An Update

please note later start time

UserMichael Lombardo (ARC).

HouseLarge Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Why People Go to War

UserProf. Robert Hinde Former Master of St. John's College Emeritus Royal Society Research Professor of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 20:00-21:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Online Science with Matt Brown

UserMatt Brown, Editor of Nature Network Online.

HouseAnchor Pub.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Colours in Gemstones

UserMrs Gill Mallet.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Carbon Detox

UserGeorge Marshall, COIN (Climate Outreach Information Network).

HouseDebating Chamber, Union Society.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2007, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Lives and Letters (the Robert Hooke Portfolio)

UserProfessor Lisa Jardine CBE, Queen Mary College, University of London.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

ICT and Climate Change

UserMolly Webb, The Climate Group.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

Molecular imaging using hyperpolarised carbon-13

From molecules to cells

UserFerdia Gallagher Departments of Biochemistry and Radiology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 16:30-17:00

Cambridge University United Nations Association (CUUNA)

The Future of the UN

International Day of Tolerance

UserMr Tim Morris (Head, International Organisations Department, FCO).

HouseMain Physiology Lecture Theatre (Theatre 1), Physiology Department, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 16:15-18:00

Physics of Living Matter PLM6

No harm in looking? The effects of optical imaging on cytoplasm

From molecules to cells

UserBrad Amos MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge (UK).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 15:30-16:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

BlueSci Workshop on Film

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Nuclear Power, Political Power and Tony Blair

UserLord Wilson of Dinton, Master of Emmanuel College.

HouseThe Old Library, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 17:30-18:45

Psy Studies

The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori

UserKatherine Angel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

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.

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

CIKC Talks

CIKC Physics Seminar

UserProf Henning Sirringhaus.

HouseIRC in Superconductivity Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 15:30-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

UserGuillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

The Sedgwick in the Galapagos

UserDr David Norman, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

TBC

UserDalibor Vesely, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

HouseMain Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

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

UserProfessor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

FIREWORKS – EXPLOSIVES FOR ENTERTAINMENT !

UserDr Tom Smith, Davas UK Ltd, Kimbolton.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

BlueSci Production with Lara Moss

http://www.cam.ac.uk/map/v4/drawmap.cgi?mp=nmus;xx=177;yy=265;mt=c

UserLara Moss.

HouseBalfour Room, 2nd floor, Computing Services Building, New Museums Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The physics of the Earth's interior

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE

UserProfessor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

UserBenoit Menand, Laboratoire de GΓ©nΓ©tique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Ancient Vaults

UserProfessor Jacques Heymen, Former Head of Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

What is a Climate Refugee?

UserDeborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Psy Studies

1919: psychology and psychoanalysis, Cambridge and London

UserJohn Forrester (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Global Conservation Crisis

A wine reception will follow the talk. Offered in collaboration with The City Seminar at CRASSH.

UserMr. Anthony Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: the Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'.

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

The Global Conservation Crisis

offered in collaboration with the Gates Cambridge Trusts' Distinguished Lecture Series

UserAnthony M Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'.

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Ancient Woodlands

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Practical reasoning and inference

UserJonathan Dancy (University of Reading and University of Texas at Austin).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Nuclear Fusion and the Hydrogen Economy

UserBill Nuttall, Judge Business School and Department of Engineering.

HouseBoys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 20:00-21:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

UserTom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Panel Discussion on the UK Climate Bill

UserDr Terry Barker, Dr David Frame, Tim Helweg-Larsen.

HouseLG18, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 14:45-16:30

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).

UserProf. Roger Brownsword, Dr. John Cornwell, Prof. Peter Lipton, Dr. Adrian Owen.

HouseAuditorium, Robinson College.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 09:30-13:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The invention of the High Power Microscope

Celebrating Antony van Leeuwenhoek's 375th Birthday

UserProfessor Brian J Ford, President of the CSAR.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 22 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

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

UserProfessor Judith Illes and Professor Lord Robert Winston.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockMonday 22 October 2007, 16:00-17:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter Benjamin

UserAlex Regier, Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies

NOTE: New start time and New venue

UserProfessor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain

UserCarlos LΓ³pez BeltrΓ‘n (Universidad Nacional AutΓ³noma de MΓ©xico).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Fungi and Woodland History

UserProfessor Oliver Rackham.

HouseDavid Building, Anglia-Ruskin University.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 19:30-21:00

fpk1's list

Strangers and Brothers: The Divisions of the British Past

C. P. Snow Lecture

UserProfessor Linda Colley, Princeton University.

HousePlumb Auditorium, Christ's College.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 17:30-18:45

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BEAGLE 2 AND BEYOND – THE FUTURE OF SPACE EXPLORATION

UserProf Colin Pillinger FRS, Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Agrofuels and the risk of ecosystem collapse

UserDeepak Rughani, BioFuelWatch.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 19:00-20:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

UserMarcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

From idea to podcast: A first course in audio production and podcasting.

From idea to podcast. (Session 1)

If possible, please book in advance. There is a course fee.

UserBjoern Hassler, CARET.

HouseBalfour Room, UCS, New Museums site.

ClockMonday 08 October 2007, 16:00-18:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Global Warming

UserProfessor Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and Author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist’, β€˜How to Spend $50B to Make the World a Better Place’, and β€˜Cool It’.

HouseGates Scholars' Combination Room, University Centre.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2007, 15:00-16:30

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Meet CUSP/BlueSci at Freshers Fair!

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseFresher's Fair.

ClockTuesday 02 October 2007, 10:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DO ANIMALS HAVE MEMORIES OF TOMORROW?

UserProf. Nicola Clayton, University of Cambridge.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 28 September 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG?

Co-sponsored with Professor David Caldwell, IRC in Superconductivity

UserProfessor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

HouseMcCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College..

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

UserAnjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BITING BACK AT BLOOD-SUCKING INSECTS

UserDr James Logan, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 September 2007, 19:00-20:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

UserAlistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

CIKC Talks

Conducting Polymers for Organic Electronics

UserDr Di Wei (Prof Amarantunga's Group) Elec Eng, University of Cambridge.

HouseCAPE building seminar room 21-23. 9 JJ Thomson Ave. CB3 0FA.

ClockThursday 02 August 2007, 11:00-12:00

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

UserProfessor Malcolm Longair.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 28 July 2007, 15:00-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

UserWim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

UserAlexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

HouseBasement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Museum of Zoology

Tropical epiphytes: In pursuit of forest hitch-hikers

UserHoward Griffiths, Professor of Plant Ecology,.

HouseMuseum of Zoology, Downing Street.

ClockThursday 05 July 2007, 18:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Supposing this and that

UserFlorian Steinberger (Faculty of Philosophy).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Energy Forum

Energy Technology

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRobinson College.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2007, 09:00-17:00

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Bright solutions for food diagnostics

UserProfessor Jim Murray, Institute of Biotechnology and Lumora.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2007, 16:35-17:00

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What's new on the Menu

UserChaired by Professor Nigel Slater, Department of Chemical Engineering.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2007, 16:05-17:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

What's new in the Kitchen

UserDr Ian Wilson, Department of Chemical Engineering.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2007, 16:05-16:30

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Nutrients in our Food

UserChair: Professor Ian White, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2007, 14:15-15:45

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Dietary Iron

UserProfessor Jonathan Powell, MRC Human Nutrition Research.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2007, 14:15-14:40

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Human Behaviour

UserChair Dr Andre Wadge, Food Standards Agency.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2007, 11:50-13:15

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

The Genetic Basis of Obesity

UserDr Sadaf Farooqi, Department of Clinical Biochemistry.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2007, 10:45-11:10

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

Horizon: Foodomics? Why we eat What we eat and What's new on the Menu

UserIntroduction by Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2007, 09:45-09:55

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Take the Eurostar to Stratford...

UserDr Mike Glover, Director, Arup Engineering, London, project manager of the High-Speed link.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockSaturday 09 June 2007, 19:30-21:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

UserPeter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseAustin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Environments: a problem for the bio-statistical theory of health

UserElselijn Kingma (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic scale investigations of alloy structures

UserEmmanuelle Marquis, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2007, 15:00-16:00

Rausing Lecture

Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com

The Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

UserTrevor Pinch (Cornell University).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 24 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

BACK TO THE FUTURE - TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT REVISITED

Free & open to all

UserProf. Peter Lillford, CBE, University of York.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 19:00-20:00

CIKC Talks

The Technical Roadmapping of Organic Electronics

UserProfessor Bill Eccleston - University of Liverpool.

HouseCAPE building seminar room 21-23. 9 JJ Thomson Ave. CB3 0FA.

ClockThursday 17 May 2007, 15:00-16:00

Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual

Grand Discussion

The Place of the Intellectual

UserCristina Devecchi, Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2007, 17:00-19:00

HPS History Workshop

The flying penman: John Wilkins and 'The Secret and Swift Messenger'

UserNatalie Kaoukji (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

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

UserProfessor David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2007, 17:00-19:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Electron diffractive imaging of extended objects

UserDr Christian Dwyer, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2007, 15:00-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

UserAndreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Colour-experience: eco-dispositionalism and inverted earth

UserStefan Brenner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual

Intellectuals, oil, and violence

The Place of the Intellectual

UserDr Alexander Etkind, Lecturer of Slavonic and Russian Studies.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockMonday 07 May 2007, 17:00-19:00

Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual

A scientific approach to the nature of ethics

The Place of the Intellectual

UserProfessor Robert Hinde, Emeritus Professor of Zoology.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 03 May 2007, 19:30-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development

UserProfessor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 18:00-19:30

HPS History Workshop

A statesman and a scholar: Hans Georg Herwart von Hohenburg as a critic and patron of Johannes Kepler

UserPatrick Boner (Kommission zur Herausgabe der Werke von Johannes Kepler, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

DNA Repair Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System

UserProfessor Robin Franklin. Neurosciences Laboratory (Department of Veterinary medicine) and the Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 30 April 2007, 19:30-21:00

World History Workshop

Besides Empire and Nation: Other Geographies, Other Times

Please let Dr. Harper know if you plan to attend

UserDr. Tim Harper and Dr. Dilip Menon (Magdalene College, Cambridge), Margaret Frenz (Oxford), Su Lin Lewis (Cambridge), Deborah Sutton (Lancaster), Emma Reisz (Queens University Belfast), Sebastian Prange (SOAS).

HouseThe Parlour, Magdalene College.

ClockSaturday 21 April 2007, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Energy Forum

Energy Insecurity

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockThursday 19 April 2007, 16:30-20:45

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Provisional knowledge

UserPaul Teller (University of California at Davis).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockThursday 19 April 2007, 14:00-15:30

Electron Microscopy Group Conferences

Microscopy of Semiconducting Materials XV

UserElectron Microscopy and Analysis Group, Institute of Physics.

HouseChurchill College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 02 April 2007, 00:00-00:00

Physics - Educational Outreach

Plastic Electronics

http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/cpc/

UserProf. Henning Sirringhaus.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2007, 18:00-19:00

Horizon Seminars

A Sensory World: novel sensor technologies and applications

programme available at http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/7981

UserOne Day Seminar Series.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2007, 09:30-17:30

Cambridge Science Festival

It's a Gas!

UserDr Peter Wothers.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 March 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Cabaret: Science of Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll

UserDr Harry Witchel, Dr Graeme Jones and Dr Mark Lewney.

HouseADC Theatre.

ClockSunday 18 March 2007, 19:45-20:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Science and Religion

UserPanel of Speakers.

HouseMichaelhouse Centre.

ClockSaturday 17 March 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The Truth About Food

UserPanel of Speakers.

HouseMichaelhouse Centre.

ClockSaturday 17 March 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The Silent Aircraft Initiative

UserDr Tom Hynes.

HouseBabbage Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 16 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Comic Relief Charity Concert

Songs for Cynical Scientists (and Non-Scientists!)

UserProf Ron Laskey and Friends (MRC Cambridge).

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Science in the Real World and Stem Cell Science

UserProfessor Colin Blakemore and Professor Austin Smith.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Stephen Stretton's list

An Environmental Case for Nuclear Energy? Talk and kick-off meeting

UserStephen Stretton: Cambridge Zero Carbon Society & Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy.

HouseBowett Room, Queens College.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:45

chw35's list

Enterprising Women - 15th of March

Register for this event online at: www.enterprising-women.org

UserLocal young entrepreneur Samantha Salisbury.

HouseNumber 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge Science Festival

The Importance of Being Peripheral

UserProfessor John Barrow.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Thinking Society: What is Life?

Student Papers and Grand Discussion

What is Life?

UserGaurav Jaggi, Colin Higgins, Kevin Channon - Discussion.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 17:00-19:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Can Kant have an account of self-knowledge?

UserYoon Choi (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

UserAleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Clare Politics

Martin Bell at Clare Politics

Room changed

UserMartin Bell.

HouseBennett Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2007, 20:30-22:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Title to be confirmed

UserMirjam Struppek (Urban Media Research; Berlin).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2007, 17:15-18:30

Thinking Society: What is Life?

What is Music? What is Life? and other unanswerable questions

What is Life?

UserDr Nikolaus Bacht, Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures'

UserProfessor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 12 March 2007, 20:30-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

UserPeter Crane, University of Chicago.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Thinking Society: What is Life?

Self-discipline as a way of life: Why would anyone eat only fruits and vegatables?

What is Life?

UserProfessor Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockFriday 09 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Thinking Society: What is Life?

Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life?

What is Life?

UserDr David Summers, Head of Genetics Department.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Nuclear power in the light of climate change

UserKeith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dave Elliott (Open University), Steve Kidd (World Nuclear Association), Bill Nuttal(Cambridge University Judge Business School).

HouseLaw Faculty LG17.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:45-20:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

One Planet Living

UserPooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Visual and the Visceral: Pornography and Sanctity, Modern and Medieval

UserDr William Burgwinkle, Reader in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Fellow of King's College.

HouseSir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium - Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Clare Politics

James Bartholomew at Clare Politics

UserJames Bartholomew.

HouseBennett Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2007, 20:30-22:00

Thinking Society: What is Life?

Incorporating Life into Philosophy: Dilthey, Bergson and Heidegger

What is Life?

UserDr Melissa Lane, Senior Lecturer in History.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ’s College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2007, 19:30-21:00

Scott Lectures

Almost Absolute Zero: the story of laser cooling and trapping

Refreshments will be served after this Lecture in the Pippard Foyer

UserProfessor William Phillips.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockMonday 05 March 2007, 16:15-17:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

UserPhilippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

World History Workshop

Creating the Modern Woman in Asia, c.1920-1940

UserKatrina Gulliver, (Pembroke).

HouseRushmore Room, St. Catharine's College.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 17:00-18:00

Psy Studies

How we became our brains: a historical perspective

UserFernando Vidal (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Practices, rules and motivation

UserCaroline Baumann (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

UserPhil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What do genes mean?

UserDr Eric Werner, Oxford University and Cellnomica Inc..

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them

UserProfessor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Clare Politics

Matthew D'Ancona at Clare Politics

Room changed

UserMatthew D'Ancona, The Spectator.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 20:30-22:00

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Dinosaurs from Mongolia

UserDr Altangerel Perle, National University of Mongolia, Ulaan Bataar.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 26 February 2007, 11:00-11:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

UserRaymond Tallis, Manchester University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

World History Workshop

Orientalism: Said and After (Joint Graduate Workshop Symposium)

Please see full programme at: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/worldhistory/gradsymposiumlent07.html

UserSee programme for speaker list.

HouseNewnham Terrace Seminar Room, Darwin College.

ClockFriday 23 February 2007, 02:00-06:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Carbon Calculation and your personal footprint

UserRosemary Randall and Andy Brown, Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

HouseQueen's College, Bowett's Room.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

Physics - Educational Outreach

Music to your ears

http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/cpc/

UserDr Wendy Sadler.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

Clare Politics

Andrew Turnbull at Clare Politics

Note unusual time

UserAndrew Turnbull.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Reference failure: why worry?

UserChristina McLeish (St Catharine's College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Web 2.0

UserDr Philip Evans, senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group. Boston, USA.

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

Clare Politics

Steve Gillon at Clare Politics

Note unusual time and venue

UserSteve Gillon, History Channel.

HouseMaster's Lodge, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

HPS History Workshop

'Les particularitΓ©s la plus considerable': Fontenelle's Γ©loges

UserLisa Mullins (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

UserPauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Evolution in the giant marine reptiles of the Mesozoic

UserDr Leslie Noe, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2007, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Stem cell biology: hype and reality

UserProfessor Austin Smith, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 19 February 2007, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The Calving of Larson-B and other phenomena: Climate Change in the Antarctic

UserProfessor David Vaughan, Deputy Director, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 19 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

EarthTalk

UserDr Alex Piotrovski, Hilary Ketchum, Dr John Hillier.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockSaturday 17 February 2007, 13:30-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

UserLionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Clare Politics

James Naughtie at Clare Politics

Canceled

UserJames Naughtie.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 15 February 2007, 20:30-22:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

UserSvante PÀÀbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

HouseSeminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The sceptical consequences of phenomenal realism

UserTorben Rees (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Religious and Scientific Belief

UserProf Lewis Wolpert, Department of Anatomy, UCL.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 20:00-21:00

BlueSci - Workshops on Science Communication

Film-making

UserSajjad Bhatti, TV Producer, Wall to Wall.

HouseBalfour Room, 2nd floor, Computing Services Building, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 19:00-20:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Title to be confirmed

UserMette Ramsgard Thomsen (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 17:15-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics?

UserProfessor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Alchemy and natural history

UserJenny Rampling (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 12 February 2007, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

UserMarcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Managing China's Rise

UserSir Christopher Hum, KCMG, Master of Gonville and Caius College.

HouseBenson Hall, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

HPS History Workshop

The place of natural philosophy in Al-Farabi's classification of knowledge

UserLydia Wilson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates

UserHector EscrivΓ , Observatoire OcΓ©anologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Clare Politics

Fiona Millar at Clare Politics

Please note date change

UserFiona Millar.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockMonday 05 February 2007, 20:30-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY OF MEANING

UserAdrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Clare Politics

Andrew Adonis at Clare Politics

Note unusual time and venue

UserAndrew Adonis.

HouseBennett Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 01 February 2007, 17:30-18:00

Psy Studies

The mismeasure of stickman: testing intelligence by drawings

UserBarbara Wittmann (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The difference between cause and condition

UserAlex Broadbent (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2007, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Alternative spatialities for a global city

UserDoreen Massey (Geography; The Open University).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids

UserProfessor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 29 January 2007, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Mission Possible: Defeating the silent killer

UserProfessor Frances Balkwill, Institute of Cancer, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 29 January 2007, 20:00-21:30

From Fruit Flies to Human Cancer

UserDr Jordan Raff, Wellcome Trust / Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

HouseBorders bookstore, 12-13 Market Street, Cambridge, CB2 3PA.

ClockMonday 29 January 2007, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

VISUALISING IDENTITY

UserLudmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Physics - Educational Outreach

Why racing cars go fast

http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/cpc/

UserJulian Cooper.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 18:00-19:00

World History Workshop

Panel Discussion: "State Sovereignty and Individual Rights"

UserPenny Croxson (Emmanuel), Rohit De (Sidney Sussex), Julia Moses (St Johns) and Eleanor Newbigin (Trinity).

HouseRushmore Room, St. Catharine's College.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction

UserSophie Weeks (Homerton College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 16:30-18:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

To Boldly Go. My Life in Physics.

To reserve a place email GatesHawking@gmail.com

UserProfessor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

HouseThe Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 18:00-19:00

fpk1's list

Global Earth Science and Sustainability

C. P. Snow Lecture

UserProfessor Charles Kennel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego).

HouseTheatre, Christ’s College.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Unconventional Electron Microscopy

UserVlad Stolojan, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 15:00-16:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Death , destruction and evolution of sea-shells

UserDr Liz Harper, Dept.of Earth Sciences, Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2007, 19:00-20:00

Early Science and Medicine

Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris

UserEmma Spary (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Taking the stink out of instinct

UserSir Patrick Bateson, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Stitch in Time: The molecular Basis of DNA repair

joint meeting with Cambridge Philosophical Society

UserProfessor Steve Jackson, Wellcome Trust, CRUK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 19:30-21:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Geological deluge and snowball Earth

UserMartin Rudwick (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 January 2007, 13:00-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

UserChristopher Hogwood.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Imaging and Mathematics

waiting for CR UK Cambridge Research Institute opening

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseCR-UK CRI.

ClockWednesday 10 January 2007, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Cryo-STEM: A new tool for SEM and Dualbeam instruments

UserHarald Dobberstein, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 12 December 2006, 15:00-16:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

THE CHEMISTRY OF CHRISTMAS - an exciting practical demonstration lecture

UserDr Colin Pulham & Prof Lesley Yellowlees (University of Edinburgh).

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 19:00-20:00

Physics - Educational Outreach

Rough Science

http://www-outreach.phy.cam.ac.uk/cpc/

UserDr Jonathon Hare.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2006, 18:00-19:00

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Closing Address

UserSir Richard Dearlove (Pembroke College).

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2006, 17:30-17:45

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Biological / Chemical Security

UserChair Professor Ian White.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2006, 16:15-17:30

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Digital Security

UserChair: Professor Rex Britter.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2006, 14:15-15:55

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Physical Security

UserChair: Professor Sir Michael Pepper.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2006, 11:40-13:00

Horizon Seminars

Risk, Threat & Detection

Programme details at: http://talks/show/index/7184

UserOne Day Seminar Series.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2006, 09:30-17:30

Horizon: Risk Threat and Detection

Context

UserChair: Professor Ian White.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 05 December 2006, 09:00-11:20

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Three-dimensional imaging and analysis using aberration-corrected STEM

Note MONDAY this week

UserPete Nellist, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockMonday 04 December 2006, 15:00-16:00

Psy Studies

Four erotic problems: elements of a history of arts of love

UserMichel Feher (Γ‰cole Normale SupΓ©rieure, Paris).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Relative meaning

UserJoe Sandham (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Clare Politics

Shami Chakrabarti

UserShami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

Thinking Society: General and Particular

Student papers and Grand Discussion

Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think

UserDr Aldo Faisal, Rodrigo de Sousa, Alex Shannon.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge University Biological Society

Protein folding, misfolding and disease

UserSir Alan Fersht, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Zero Carbon City Dongtan

UserDr Neil Kirkpatrick, Associate Director, Arup.

HouseChemical Engineering Department LT1.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Thinking Society: General and Particular

The death of theorising?

Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think

UserSir Patrick Bateson, Professor of Ethology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

MIXING CHEMICALS AND CHARACTERS: The craft of writing science-based fiction

UserMalcolm Rose - prizewinning childrens science fiction author.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:00

HPS History Workshop

Electrons in the family

UserJaume Navarro (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Thinking Society: General and Particular

Varieties of theory in modern America

Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think

UserDr Joel Isaac, Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Preservation of Burgess-Shale-type fossils: implications for early animal evolution

UserDr Nick Butterfield, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2006, 19:00-20:00

Clare Politics

Anthony Seldon

UserAnthony Seldon, Wellington College.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockSunday 19 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Careers in Science

UserDr Anne Forde, University Careers Service.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 20:00-21:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Three degrees of (anti-realist) modal involvement

UserPaul Dicken (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Thinking Society: General and Particular

Process or cultural relativism in prehistory?

Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think

UserDr Simon Stoddart, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2006, 19:00-20:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Quantifying deformation under indentations by TEM diffraction

UserKirsten McLaughlin, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system

UserDr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 20:30-21:30

Clare Politics

Trevor Phillips

UserTrevor Phillips, Commission for Racial Equality.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockMonday 13 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

World History Workshop

Contested Drugs: Controversy over Herbal Medicine between Western Pharmacists and Oriental Physicians

UserEunJeong Ma, Needham Research Institute visiting scholar.

HouseOCR, St. Catharine's College.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

HPS History Workshop

Darwin's microscopes: theory, practice and reputation

UserBoris Jardine (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Clare Politics

Douglas Hurd

UserDouglas Hurd.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2006, 20:30-22:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mother Nature Knows Best: Making Heat-Stable Vaccines

UserDr Bruce Roser, Chief Scientific Officer, Cambridge Biostability, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 06 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Thinking Society: General and Particular

Is history science?

Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think

UserProfessor Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockMonday 06 November 2006, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle

UserSir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 17:30-18:30

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Philosophy on the move: mind and body in Stanley Cavell's work

UserJoab Rosenberg (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

Religion, Culture & Mental Health: Jewish & Protestant Views on Alcoholism

UserProfessor Kate Loewenthal, Professor of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseChabad House, 37A Caslte Street, Cambridge, CB30AH.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2006, 19:30-20:30

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

The Cambrian explosion: as mysterious as ever?

UserProfessor Simon Conway Morris, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2006, 19:00-20:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The life habits of the trilobites

UserProfessor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 20:30-21:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Transcultural botany: Japanese gardens in New Zealand, 1890-1950

Note: This seminar will start at 12.30

UserJasper Heinzen (Darwin College).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 30 October 2006, 12:30-13:45

Clare Politics

Bob Marshall-Andrews

UserBob Marshall Andrews, MP.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Evolution of the Middle Ear

UserDr Matthew Mason, Department of Physiology.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 20:00-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Scanning probe microscopy of GaN: Beyond pretty pictures

UserRachel Oliver, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Malaria: from science to action

UserProfessor Nicholas White, Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Programme.

HousePharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

ClockMonday 23 October 2006, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Soft Small and Interesting - Soft Matter: towards Soft Nanotechnology

UserProfessor Ullrich Steiner, Professor of Physics of Materials, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 23 October 2006, 19:30-21:00

World History Workshop

Panel Discussion on "The Transmission of Information": Case Study and Comparison

UserPenny Croxson, Anne Friedrichs, Clemens Hausler, Rachel Leow and Su Lin Lewis.

HouseRushmore Room, St. Catharine's College.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Energy Forum

Financing Energy Innovation

UserWhite, Davidson, Workman, McGregor, Gillespie.

HouseLaw Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 16:30-20:45

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Not all computations are effective methods

UserMark Sprevak (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Friends of the Sedgwick Museum

Why study the Burgess Shale? Memories from the 1966-7 expeditions

UserProfessor Harry Whittington (former Woodwardian Professor), Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseSedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2006, 19:00-20:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Thinking in posters: AIDS and the power of the visual

UserRoger Cooter (University College London) and Claudia Stein (University of Warwick).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture

Note unusual time and venue

UserProfessor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, Cockcroft Building.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

Clare Politics

Philip Cowley

UserPhilip Cowley, Nottingham University.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockMonday 16 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Drinks Reception

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 17:45-19:30

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Closing Remarks

UserProfessor Sir David King.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 17:30-17:45

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Clinical Neuroscience

UserChair Professor Alastair Compston, Deartment of Clinical Neurosciences.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 16:15-17:30

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Public Understanding of Neuroscience

UserChair: Dr Roger Carpenter, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 14:30-16:00

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Translational Neuroscience

UserChair: Professor Trevor Robbins, Department of Experimental Psychology.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 12:00-13:30

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Basic Neuroscience

UserChair Professor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 10:15-11:45

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

An Introduction to Cambridge Neuroscience

UserProfessor Alastair Compston and Professor Trevor Robbins.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 10:00-10:15

Horizon - Neuroscience and Society

Welcoming remarks

UserProfessor Sir Gabriel Horn, Chair of Cambridge University Government Policy Programme.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 09:45-10:00

Horizon Seminars

Neuroscience and Society

UserOne-day seminar.

HouseKaetsu Centre, New Hall.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 09:30-17:30

Clare Politics

Matthew Parris

UserMatthew Parris, The Times.

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2006, 20:30-22:00

HPS History Workshop

Bangs and stinks: Ede's 'Youth's Laboratories' and the smell of useful knowledge

UserMelanie Keene (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Colision Course - How Science is abused by the Media

UserProfessor Brian J Ford, Writer, Broadcaster and CSAR Member of Council.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 09 October 2006, 19:30-21:00

World History Workshop

Annual Meeting

UserLeigh Denault and Emma Hunter.

HouseRushmore Room, St. Catharine's College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 17:00-18:00

Imaging and Mathematics

summer holiday

Userback in october.

HouseCR-UK CRI.

ClockWednesday 06 September 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Proof-of-concept of multi-electron-beam system

UserOsamu Kamimura, Central Research Laboartory, Hitachi, Japan.

HouseAustin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockThursday 27 July 2006, 11:30-12:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Some aspects of deterministic phase retrieval

UserDavid Paganin, School of Physics, Monash University, Australia.

HouseAustin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 18 July 2006, 11:30-12:30

Imaging and Mathematics

Second Harmonic Generation Imaging of voltage in dendritic spines.

Special lecture ! Different venue !

UserRafael Yuste, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

HouseDepartment of Biochemistry, Sanger building, Lecture theatre, Tennis Court Road.

ClockWednesday 12 July 2006, 16:00-17:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

The Chemistry of Metal-Cluster Complexes containing Phenyl Tin Ligands

UserProf RD Adams, Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockMonday 10 July 2006, 11:10-12:10

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Modification of Polymer/Polymer Interfaces Using Block Copolymers and Microgel Particles

UserRichard J Spontak, Departments of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockMonday 03 July 2006, 11:30-12:30

Horizon Seminars

Green Frontiers

Online Registration now available

UserOne-day seminar.

HouseMR2, Mathematical Sciences, Centre for.

ClockTuesday 27 June 2006, 09:30-17:30

Inference Group

In search of the brain's wiring

UserPhilipp Hennig, Heidelberg.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 21 June 2006, 14:00-15:00

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Magnetic Materials: Where are the limits?

THE EIGHTH KELLY LECTURE

UserProfessor Michael Coey , Trinity College , Dublin.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2006, 17:30-18:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Spectrum Imaging: Challenges with Real Materials

UserProfessor Alan J Craven, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2006, 11:30-12:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Atomic Structure of Nanotubes and Nano-Clusters

UserJian-Min Zuo, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois.

HouseAustin Seminar Room, Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockMonday 12 June 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Looking inside a star (and other stories) - Developments in Radio Astronomy made here in Cambridge

UserProfessor Richard Hills, Professor of Radio Astronomy, the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2006, 19:30-21:00

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

UserWilliam Adams, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 05 June 2006, 13:00-14:15

chw35's list

Graduate Women's Network

Space is limited register to attend at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~chw35/gwn/

UserCaroline Theobald and Liba Taub.

HouseGonville & Caius College, Bateman Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 30 May 2006, 18:00-20:30

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

UserAnna Mrker, Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 22 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

When is an embryo not an embryo?

All Welcome.

UserDr Anne McLaren, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

HouseLounge, The Graduate Union.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2006, 19:30-20:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

On Gray Scale Features-Based Image Classification of Textural Type Continuous Objects

UserAndrei Reztsov, Australian Key Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis, Sydney, Australia.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockMonday 15 May 2006, 15:00-16:00

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

UserBenjamin Wardhaugh, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

ClockMonday 15 May 2006, 13:00-14:15

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.

UserProfessor Vitaly Bergelson, The Ohio State University.

HouseWolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 09 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

Major Public Lectures in Cambridge

Human Evolution: what can be known?

Public Lecture - All Welcome

UserRichard Leakey.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Network structures in green-emitting InGaN/GaN quantum wells

UserNicole van der Laak, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2006, 15:00-16:00

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

UserProfessor Sir Sydney Brenner.

HouseDepartment of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 01 May 2006, 20:00-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Defence research: Changing world, changing priorities (R&D in the MoD)

UserProfessor Phil Sutton, Director-General (Research and Development), Ministry of Defence, Whitehall.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 24 April 2006, 19:30-21:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Extrinsic and Intrinsic Defects in Colloidal Photonic Crystals

UserProf Doug D Perovic, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Toronto.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockThursday 20 April 2006, 15:00-16:00

Horizon Seminars

Beyond Einstein

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockWednesday 22 March 2006, 09:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body.

UserProfessor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 13 March 2006, 20:30-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

UserDiana Liverman, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING LONGER

UserCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein Folding. Misfolding and disease.

UserProfessor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 27 February 2006, 20:30-21:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE

UserAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Antibiotics, 75 years on - New antibiotics, using genes cloned from Streptomyces species

UserProfessor Sir David Hopwood, FRS, Department of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 20 February 2006, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS

UserJames Jackson, Cambridge University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING DISEASE

UserRichard Feachem, Global Fund.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Just print me another computer, will you? - The world of plastic electronics

UserDr Henning Sirringhaus, Chief Scientist at Plastic Logic, Cambridge Science Park, Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2006, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES

UserPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

UserEdith Hall, Durham University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

From C60 to C1000000: A review on carbon nanotube growth

UserStephen Hofmann, Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge.

HouseT001 [Tower Seminar Room], Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2006, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hush, here comes an aircraft! - The Silent Aircraft Initiative

UserProfessor Ann Dowling, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2006, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES

UserPaul Kennedy, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Evolution of the Earth

UserProfessor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS..

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

ClockFriday 16 December 2005, 09:00-18:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins

UserProfessor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 28 November 2005, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Free Will Theorem

UserProfessor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2005, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Eve, Uncovered - Sequencing the human X-chromosome

UserDr Alison Coffey, The Sanger Centre and the Human Genome Project, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 07 November 2005, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Dynamic Sun

UserDr Helen Mason, DAMTP.

HouseCockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

ClockMonday 31 October 2005, 20:30-21:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The eyes: gateway to the soul? - Iris Recognition Technology

UserDr John Daugman OBE, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College.

ClockMonday 24 October 2005, 19:30-21:00

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).

UserProfessor Peter Sarnak, Princeton.

HouseWolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2005, 17:00-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Algebraic Topology and Modular Forms

The lecture will be followed by drinks in Pavilion E Common Room

UserProfessor Mike Hopkins, MIT.

HouseWolfson Room (MR 2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2003, 17:00-18:00

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