Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge


2008-01-18 17:30: Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy (Andy Fabian:  University of Cambridge)

2008-01-25 17:30: The Stratigraphy of Serendipity (Susan Alcock:  Brown University, USA)

2008-02-01 17:30: HIV and the Naked Ape (Prof. Robin A Weiss:  University College London)

2008-02-08 17:30: The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life (Simon Wichester:  Author of 'The Map That Changed The World')

2008-02-15 17:30: Serendipity in Political Life (Oliver Letwin:  Member of Parliament)

2008-02-22 17:30: Serendipity as a Force in Physics (Richard Friend:  University of Cambridge)

2008-02-29 17:30: Cosmological Serendipity (Simon Singh:   Author, Journalist, TV Producer)

2008-03-07 17:30: Understnding Humans - Serendipity & Anthropology (Richard Leakey:  Stony Brook University, New York)

2008-06-27 15:00: "Deep Questions of Cosmology: Did Something Happen before the Big Bang?" (Prof. Sir Roger Penrose FRS)

2008-10-25 10:30: How to Illuminate an Elephant (Christopher de Hamel)

2008-10-25 12:00: How to Write a Mystery Story (Caroline Lawrence, author of 'The Roman Mysteries')

2008-10-25 13:30: Icons in French Culture (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-25 14:30: Can Texting Make You More Literate? (Professor David Crystal)

2008-10-25 16:00: Hollywood Versus the Telephone (Speaker to be confirmed)

2009-03-05 18:00: The Science of Sword Swallowing (Dan Meyer, Cutting edge Innertainment)

2009-05-04 17:00: How Many Universes Are There? (Professor Paul Davies)

2010-05-10 17:00: The Amazing Diversity of Planetary Systems (Professor Michel Mayor, University of Geneva)

2010-11-03 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - CLONING, NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING AND PROSPECTS FOR CELL REPLACEMENT (Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS)

2012-03-07 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Youthful Spirit of Mathematics (Professor Michael Atiyah FRS)

2012-11-07 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Seeing is believing: how a Century after its discovery, Bragg's Law allows us to peer into molecules that read the information in our genes (Dr Venki Ramakrishnan FRS,  MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2013-11-13 18:00: Genomics, Structural Biology and Making New Medicines: An Opportunity for Academia to Contribute (Professor Sir Tom Blundell FRS FMedSci, Emeritus Professor and Director of Research, Department of Biochemistry)

2013-11-14 17:00: Alastair Campbell: Journalism and democracy: grounds for optimism in the face of the future? (Alastair Campbell)

2014-02-19 17:00: Matching Markets and Market Design (Professor Alvin Roth Stanford and Harvard University)

2014-03-13 17:00: The Pointless Universe (Professor Michael Green FRS, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-25 17:00: Marshall Lecture 2015 (Prof Raj Chetty Harvard University)

2015-03-10 17:00: Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture 2015: Colour, New Dimensions and the Geometry of Physics (Professor Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate, MIT)

2016-05-10 17:00: "Why have banks?" and "Banks, Policy Intervention and Crises" (Professor Raghuram Rajan)

2017-05-03 17:00: Marshall Lectures 2017 Professor Thomas Piketty (Professor Thomas Piketty)

2017-05-04 10:00: Marshall Lectures Professor Thomas Piketty (Professor Thomas Piketty)

2018-03-06 17:00: Taking Investment in Education Seriously - Two Part Series (Prof Caroline Hoxby (Stanford University))

2018-11-14 17:00: Economic Narratives: How Bimetallism and Bitcoin Went Viral (Professor Robert Shiller)

2018-11-15 17:00: Bimetallism, Bitcoin, Marx, Keynes, and Other Examples (Professor Robert Shiller)

2019-03-20 17:00: What Are We? Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? (Professor John Ellis FRS )

2019-09-19 17:00: Marshall Lecture - Market Design When Resource Allocation is NP-Hard -Prof Paul Milgrom  (Prof Paul Milgrom - Stanford Department of Economics)