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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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What insect-watching can tell us about the evolution of animal behaviour

UserDr William Foster.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building Embodied Intelligence: Insights from Wayve’s Journey in Autonomous Driving

UserDr Alex Kendall.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2026, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cars, aeroplanes, and quantum physics: Why complexity makes life simpler for the vibration engineer

UserProfessor Robin Langley FREng. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A Lot of Hot Air: volcanic degassing and its impact on our environment

UserProfessor Marie Edmonds FRS. Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 24 November 2025, 18:00-19:00

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 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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Chiral Universe

UserProfessor David Tong.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 October 2025, 18:00-19:00

LCLU Annual Talks

Constraints on the Properties of Primordial Protocells

UserJACK SZOSTAK, University of Chicago (Department of Chemistry)​.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin?

UserProfessor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED).

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and β€œbeyond-Li” battery technologies function

UserProfessor Clare P. Grey.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and β€œbeyond-Li” battery technologies function

UserProfessor Clare P. Grey.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

UserProfessor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

UserProfessor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Why there’s no such thing as β€œthe” scientific advice

UserProfessor Stephen John.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 17 February 2025, 18:00-19:00

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

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 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 Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows

UserProfessor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 October 2024, 18:00-19:00

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 Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

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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 Philosophical Society

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

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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 Philosophical Society

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

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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 Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

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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 Philosophical Society

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

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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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

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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 Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

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UserDr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

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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 Philosophical Society

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

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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 Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

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UserProfessor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

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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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

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UserProfessor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

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UserProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

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UserProfessor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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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 Philosophical Society

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

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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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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UserProfessor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSunday 13 February 2022, 18:30-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Biology of Eating

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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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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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 Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics?

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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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain

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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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science

UserDr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 November 2019, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

How to Hunt a Submarine

UserProfessor Tom Kӧrner, 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

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

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 Philosophical Society

Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

UserDr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

When algebra meets geometry

UserProfessor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

UserProfessor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Cambridge Philosophical Society series

UserProfessor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 18:00-19:00

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 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

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 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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system

UserProfessor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 February 2018, 18:00-19:00

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

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

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 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

PhD Information Evening

UserVarious.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2017, 19:00-22:00

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

Cambridge University Astronomical Society (CUAS)

From Mars to Multiverse

UserLord Martin Rees, OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRAS.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2017, 19:45-21:30

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

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 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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacology

User Professor Calum A MacRae, Chief of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, USA.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices

UserProfessor Michael Cates FRS FRSE, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 30 January 2017, 18:00-19:00

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

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

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 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 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

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

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

CUEN evening seminar: "Lossless Energy Transport: The Magic of Superconductors"

UserDr Suchitra Sebastian.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 17:00-00:00

The Archimedeans (CU Mathematical Society)

How impossible is it to reconcile quantum logic with classical logic?

UserProfessor Gerard 't Hooft.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets

This talk is FREE FOR EVERYONE

UserDr Simon Singh.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

From Mars to the Multiverse

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

UserProf. Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, University of Cambridge .

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Genius of Michael Faraday

Note the different venue (BMS)! Free for all - outreach talk.

UserProf. Sir John Meurig Thomas, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 04 February 2013, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

A century of the proton: from Rutherford to Higgs

Please note this talk is on Wednedsay

UserProf. James Stirling, University of Cambridge.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 20:00-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

"Science, Computation and the Future"

UserStephen Wolfram.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 20:00-21:15

Cambridge University Physics Society

On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: the forgotten contribution of the medieval physicists

UserProf Jim Al-Khalili, University of Surrey.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

What will a nanobot look like?

UserProfessor Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

lvb23's list

All celss 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.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals

UserProf. David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 November 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing

UserProf. Ian Hutchings FREng.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 27 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales

LARMOR LECTURE

UserProf. Jeremy J Baumberg: Department of Physics.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 13 October 2008, 17:30-18:30

All Talks (aka the CURE list)

Design of Catalysts for the Olefin Metathesis reaction: Applications in Synthesis

Organic Chemistry - The Merck Lecture

UserProfessor Robert H Grubbs (CalTech, USA).

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 19 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Interdisciplinarity in Science

UserPanel debate, chaired by Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4's weekly science programme, The Material World.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2008, 17:30-19:30

lvb23's list

A forum: Interdisciplinarity in Science

UserChair:- Quentin Cooper, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Material World.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature?

UserProfessor David Baulcombe FRS.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Unpredictability and chance in science and technology

UserProfessor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS FREng.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Sundials and the calendar

UserDr Frank King: Computer Laboratory.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

When is a structure a musical instrument? Percussion instruments and other musical oddities

G.I.Taylor Lecture

UserProfessor Jim Woodhouse: Department of Engineering.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Hands-free writing

UserProf David J C Mackay.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment. (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder)

UserProf. Kevin Brindle: Department of Biochemistry & Cancer ResearchUK Cambridge Research Institute.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 12 November 2007, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Threats to Woodland: present and future

UserProf. Oliver Rackham OBE, FBA: Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 29 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

lvb23's list

Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies

LARMOR LECTURE

UserProf. Robert Kennicutt: Department of Astronomy.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 15 October 2007, 17:30-18:30

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