Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry


2008-03-03 17:00: New Stereoselective Higher-Order Rhodium-Catalyzed Carbocyclizations Reactions for Total Synthesis (Professor Andrew Evans (University of Liverpool))

2008-05-16 16:00: Dynamic Self-Assembly of Macromolecules and Small Molecules (Professor Sam Stupp, The Stupp Laboratory at Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois)

2009-03-18 18:00: Chemistry saves lives (Dr Tony Wood, Vice President and Worldwide Head of Medicinal Chemistry at Pfizer)

2009-04-30 14:00: Rapid and efficient production and oxidation of hydrogen by air-sensitive metalloenzymes: electrochemistry, mechanisms and implications for life and energy (Professor Fraser Armstrong, University of Oxford)

2010-03-08 17:00: Extended ß-Triketone Derivatives: Versatile Building Blocks for Metallosupramolecular Chemistry and Crystal Engineering (Professor Leonard Lindoy)

2010-03-18 16:00: What will a nanobot look like? (Professor Tony Ryan)

2010-05-11 19:00: MERCURY - WINDOW ON THE INVISIBLE (Dr Andrea Sella, University College London)

2010-10-21 20:00: Hunting for Meteorites in Antartica and Australia (Dr Gretchen Benedix, Natural History Musuem, London)

2010-11-24 14:15: Quantum dynamics of chemical reactions (Professor David Clary FRS, University of Oxford)

2010-11-29 14:00: Metallopolyynes and Metallophosphors: Multifunctional Materials with Emerging Applications in Optical Devices (Professor Raymond Wong, Hong Kong Baptist University)

2011-02-10 20:00: The Remains of Recent Exploding Stars in our Galaxy (Dr Dave Green, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-02-17 20:00: Cosmic Inflation for Beginners (Dr Mike Hobson, Cavendish Laboratory)

2011-03-10 20:00: Active Galaxies and the Amateur (Dr Nick Hewitt, British Astronomical Association)

2011-03-25 16:00: Tooling Up for Nanoworld: The Magic of Molecular Machines (Professor David Leigh, University of Edinburgh)

2011-04-06 16:00: Generalized-ensemble algorithms: efficient conformational sampling techniques for biomolecular simulations (Professor Yuko Okamoto, Nagoya University, Japan)

2011-04-11 17:00: “Physical chemistry and searching for a cure for sickle cell disease” (Professor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator  Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda)

2011-04-13 14:15: The theory of single molecule force and fluorescence spectroscopy (Dr Attila Szabo, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA)

2011-04-14 14:00: "Ultrafast Protein Folding" (Professor William Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator  Chief, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethseda)

2011-04-20 14:15: An Ising-like Model for Protein Folding (Dr William Eaton, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA)

2011-05-13 16:00: Design of New Catalytic Reactions for Sustainable Chemistry (Professor David Milstein, Weizmann Institute, Israel)

2011-05-19 14:00: Anion Supramolecular Chemistry: Sensing and Materials (Professor Jonathan Steed, Durham University)

2011-10-18 20:00: The search for the highest redshift quasars (Prof Paul Hewett , University of Cambridge)

2011-10-25 20:00: The Geology of Meteorites (Prof Monica Grady , Open University)

2011-11-01 20:00: Red Sprites : film night (Prof Peter McLeish , Montreal)

2011-11-08 20:00: The Hubbles space telescope and Supernovae (Prof Stephen Smartt , Queen's University Belfast)

2011-11-14 16:00: Energy: Stakes and challenges of sustainable Electrochemical storage (Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon, University of Picardie)

2011-11-15 16:00: The Li-ion technology: its state of the art (Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon, University of Picardie)

2011-11-15 20:00: Recent Results from Cassini (Prof Andrew Coates , UCL)

2011-11-22 20:00: Gravitational lensing (Dr Sarah Bridle , UCL)

2011-11-29 20:00: Galactic Archeology (Dr Chris Lintott , University of Oxford)

2012-01-17 20:00: The Fermi Paradox (Mr Ducan Lunan of Astronomers of the Future Ltd)

2012-01-19 16:00: Novel complex fast ion conductors: challenges for crystallographers and spectroscopists! (Professor Stephen Skinner, ICL)

2012-01-24 20:00: T.W. Webb, his Society, and Double Stars (Mr Bob Argyle , University of Cambridge)

2012-01-26 16:00: Origins of life chemistry - reconciling the iron-sulfur and the RNA worlds (Dr John Sutherland, Cambridge)

2012-02-10 14:00: Light-in, Light-out - the yin and yang of sustainable materials chemistry (Dr Ed Constable, University of Basel)

2012-02-14 20:00: Evolution applied to extraterrestrials (Prof Simon Conway Morris , University of Cambridge)

2012-02-21 15:45: "Self-assembly and cryo-TEM in the study of bioinspired hybrid  materials" (Dr Nico A.J.M. Sommerdijk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2012-02-21 16:45: "Exploring new chiral space in asymmetric catalysis" (Prof. Ben Feringa, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Groningen)

2012-02-21 20:00: Asteroid Deflection (Dr Max Vasile - University of Strathclyde)

2012-02-23 16:00: Synthetic Molecular Systems (th)at Work (Professor Stefan Matile, University of Geneva)

2012-02-28 20:00: The Hershel Program (Prof Matt Griffin , Cardiff University)

2012-03-08 13:00: BP 3rd Years PhD Talks (3rd Year PhD Students)

2012-03-13 16:00: 'Personalized Energy for 1 (x 6 Billion): A Solution to the Global Energy Challenge (Professor Dan Nocera, MIT)

2012-03-14 16:00: The Artificial Leaf (Professor Dan Nocera, MIT)

2012-04-27 14:00: "Accelerated C-H Activation: A Shortcut to Molecular Complexity from Chemical Feedstock" (Professor Jin-Quan Yu, The Scripps Research Institute)

2012-10-09 20:00: The UK Space Agency (Dr Nick Cox, UK Space Agency)

2012-10-16 20:00: "Great Moments in Astronomy No.74: defending your mother against witchcraft charges" - So you think /modern/ astronomy is weird? (Prof. Piers Bursill-Hall, DPMMS)

2012-10-23 14:30: Macroscopic Self-Assembly and Self-Healing through Molecular Recognition (Professor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan)

2012-10-23 20:00: Is there or was there Life on Mars: Exploring Mars (Professor Mark Sims, University of Leicester )

2012-10-24 14:30: Polyrotaxanes and Supramolecular Catalysis (Professor Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan)

2012-10-25 13:00: Dynamol Symposium (Jeremy Sanders, Fraser Stoddart, Christoph Schalley and Rafal Klajn)

2012-10-30 20:00: Cambridge: Sundials and Time (Dr Frank King, The Computer Laboratory, Cambridge )

2012-11-06 20:00: Diffraction-Limited Imaging in the Visible on Large Ground Based Telescopes (Professor Craig Mackay, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2012-11-13 20:00: Stars in the Headlines: what makes astronomy newsworthy (Dr Steven Miller, UCL )

2012-11-15 16:00: Controlled functionalization of surfaces: supported single-site catalysts and beyond (Professor Christophe Coperet, ETH Zurich)

2012-11-20 20:00: Protoplanetary Discs (Dr Meng Xiang-Gruess, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2012-11-27 20:00: The Higgs and the Cosmological Constant (Professor David Tong, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2012-12-06 16:00: Supramolecular Assembly on Designer Templates (Professor Mitsuhiko Shionoya, University of Tokyo)

2013-01-22 20:00: An astronomer in Antarctica (Dr Jon Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey)

2013-01-29 20:00: A few minutes of microgravity with the BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos (Jonathan Amos, BBC)

2013-01-31 16:00: Functional Nanomaterials via Crystallization-Driven "Living Self-Assembly" (Professor Ian Manners, University of Bristol)

2013-02-05 20:00: AGN Feedback: How a central black hole can control a galaxy (Professor Andy Fabian, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2013-02-12 20:00: High energy particles and atmospheric electricity (Professor Giles Harrison, University of Reading)

2013-02-18 16:00: Light energy harvesting and charge carrier collection in mesoscopic solar energy conversion systems (Professor Michael Graetzel, EPFL)

2013-02-26 20:00: Magnetars, the most extreme neutron stars. Multiwavelenght emissions (Dr Silvia Zane, University College London)

2013-02-28 16:00: For Richer Pore: Porous Molecules and Materials Through Supramolecular Chemistry (Professor Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia, Canada)

2013-03-01 16:00: "Chromatin: An Expansive Canvas for Chemical Biology" (Professor Tom Muir, Princeton University, USA)

2013-03-05 20:00: TBC (Dr Stephen Serjeant, Open University)

2013-03-07 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Amos B. Smith III - University of Pennsylvania )

2013-03-12 20:00: The British Interplanetary Society and the UK Space Industry (Alistair Scott, President of the British Interplanetary Society)

2013-03-21 16:00: Biomimetic, bioinspired and biosynthetic catalysts for water-splitting (Dr Vincent Artero, CEA, Grenoble)

2013-05-09 16:00: Spherical Nucleic Acid (SNA) Nanostructures: Establishing a New Paradigm in Molecular Diagnostics and Intracellular Gene Regulation: (Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University)

2013-05-10 16:00: Nucleic Acid-Modified Nanostructures as Programmable Atom Equivalents: Forging a New Periodic Table (Professor Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University)

2013-05-16 15:30: Mechanoresponsive Materials and Self-Healing Systems (Professor Jeffrey S Moore, University of Illnois)

2013-07-26 16:00: "Asymmetric Autocatalysis and the Origin of Homochirality" (Professor Kenso Soai, Department of Applied Chemistry Faculty of Science, Tokyo University of Science)

2013-10-17 16:00: Control over Cavity Size & Shape in Anion-binding Coordination Cages (Dr Guido Clever, University of Goettingen)

2013-10-29 19:30: Gaia: ESA's next big astrophysics mission (Prof Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2013-11-04 19:00: How can mice using iPads help cure Alzheimer's disease? (Professor Tim Bussey (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge))

2013-11-05 18:00: The Fireworks Universe: a Brief History of the Big Bang Theories (Dr Simon Mitton, Vice President Royal Astronomical Society, St Edmund's College)

2013-11-06 19:00: PhD Information Event ([Careers Service and current PhD and MPhil students])

2013-11-14 16:00: Getting the most out of carbon sp2 and sp3 materials in sensing applications (Professor Julie Macpherson, Univeristy of Warwick)

2013-11-14 19:30: "The Night Sky Two Million Years Ago: Did Homo erectus witness a huge flare from a supermassive black hole?" (Dr Greg Madsen (IoA, Cambridge))

2013-11-21 19:00: Internship Information Event ([Careers Service and Former Summer Students and Interns])

2013-11-26 19:30: Comets - Omens of Doom (Jonathan Shanklin, Director of the BAA and SPA Comet Sections)

2013-12-05 16:00: Organometallic Reaction Chemistry and Catalysis in the Solid-State (Professor Andrew Weller, University of Oxford)

2014-01-23 16:00: Coordination Clusters as Building Blocks for New Materials (Professor Annie Powell, Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany)

2014-02-13 16:00: Materials Synthesis and Interface Catalysis Using the Molecular Precursor Approach (Professor Dr. Matthias Driess, Technische Universitat Berlin)

2014-02-18 19:00: Fingerprints of the Early Universe (Dr Hiranya Peiris (UCL))

2014-02-25 19:30: New Evidence for Modified Gravity (Indranil Banik)

2014-03-06 19:30: The Puzzling Diversity of Exoplanets (Prof Didier Queloz (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-27 14:00: Christian Doppler Symposium (Various)

2014-04-29 16:00: Solar-fuels production from water using photocatalysts (Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo)

2014-04-30 15:00: Organic Photoredox Catalysis: Methods and Mechanistic Insight (Professor David Nicewicz, University of North Carolina, Chapell Hill)

2014-04-30 16:00: Development of visible light responsive photocatalysts for water splitting (Professor Kazunari Domen, University of Tokyo)

2014-05-06 14:15: Defra’s air quality modelling intercomparison project (Dr Michelle Cain (Cambridge))

2014-05-09 16:00: Dripping, jetting, drips and wetting: the magic of microfluidics (Professor David A. Weitz, Harvard University)

2014-05-14 09:00: BP Day 2014 (Various)

2014-05-19 16:00: Werner Complexes: A New Class of Chiral Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts for Enantioselective Organic Reactions" (Professor John Gladysz, Texas A&M)

2014-10-14 19:30: Night Vision: exploring the infrared universe (Prof Michael Rowan-Robinson, Imperial College London)

2014-10-16 14:30: 2D or not 2D?  Two-dimensional nanostructures for sensing and solar energy conversion (Professor Bettina Lotsch, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universitaet, Germany)

2014-10-21 19:30: Planets, asteroids and dust around nearby stars (Dr Mark Wyatt, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-10-28 19:30: How to simulate our Universe? (Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-11-04 19:30: 50 Years of X-ray Astronomy (Dr Stephen Walker, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-11-10 19:30: Asteroseismology (Title TBA) (Prof Donald Kurtz, University of Central Lancashire)

2014-11-14 12:00: Electric double layers at metal oxide water interfaces and their effect on electrocatalysis.  (Prof. Michiel Sprik, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambirdge)

2014-11-18 19:30: Cosmology (Title TBA) (Dr Anthony Challinor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) & Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-11-19 16:00: Boron based dynamic bonding: an emerging construction tool for Chemical Biology (Professor Pedro Gois, Lisbon University)

2014-11-25 16:00: Soft Matter Quasicrystals and Their Complex Cousins (Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan)

2014-11-25 19:30: Weighing the Universe with the Lightest Elements (Prof Max Pettini, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

2014-11-26 14:00: Digital Discovery and Design: the new age of materials on demand (Professor Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan)

2014-12-02 19:30: Is the All-There-Is all there is? Intimations of our place in the cosmos (Dr Roberto Trotta, Imperial College London)

2015-01-20 19:30: The Hidden Universe Revealed (Prof Robert C. Kennicutt, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-27 19:30: Chemical Compositions of Extrasolar Planets (Dr Nikku Madhusudhan, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-24 19:30: How cold is dark matter? (Prof Martin Haehnelt, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

2015-03-03 19:30: Measuring the Universe with a 10^26 inch ruler (Prof Alan Heavens, Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London)

2015-03-18 16:00: TBC (Prof. Edward Tate, Imperial College)

2015-03-26 14:30: Nanomaterials Design for Energy and Environment (Professor Yi Cui Stanford University)

2015-04-28 16:00: Exploitation of fundamental and biomedical functions of clathrin-independent endocytosis (Prof. Ludger Johannes, Institute Curie)

2015-05-15 16:00: Selective Stoichiometric and Catalytic Reactions in Water-Soluble Host-Guest Supramolecular Systems (Professor Robert Bergman)

2015-09-04 10:00: "Investigating Interactions" - Symposium celebrating the research career of Professor Jeremy Sanders (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-09-16 14:00: Mass Spectrometry in Structural Biology (Dr Dijana Matak-Vinkovic, University of Cambridge)

2015-10-15 16:00: “The Molecular Recognition Toolbox” (Professor Chris Hunter)

2015-11-11 15:30: "Solar Powered CO2-to-Fuel” (Professor Geoffrey Ozin, University of Toronto)

2016-01-14 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Richmond Sarpong, University of California, Berkeley)

2016-02-16 16:00: The Linnett Lecture - Life at the Single Molecule Level: Single Cell Genomics (Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie, Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University)

2016-02-18 16:00: Single Molecule Enzymology: Transcription against Supercoiling (Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University)

2016-02-19 16:00: Seeing the Invisible: Vibrational Imaging for Biology and Medicine (Prof. Xiaoliang Sunny Xie - Mallinckrodt Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University)

2016-03-17 15:00: Alumni Medal Ceremony and Talk (Dr Yusuf K Hamied)

2016-05-12 16:00: A New Approach to Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis (Prof. Dr. Benjamin List, Max-Planck-Institute, Mülheim)

2016-05-16 16:00: Synthetic, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry in the Smith Group at the University of Pennsylvania (Professor Amos B. Smith, III, University of Pennsylvania)

2016-05-18 16:00: Reprogramming the Genetic Code (Dr Jason Chin,  Centre for Chemical & Synthetic Biology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2016-10-11 19:30: Jupiter and JUNO (Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy))

2016-10-18 19:30: The satellites of the Milky Way (Gabriel Torrealba (Institute of Astronomy))

2016-10-25 19:30: Cosmology after the first 5 minutes (Sarah Bosman (Institute of Astronomy))

2016-11-03 19:30: Black Holes: The most extreme physics laboratories in the Universe (Dr Matt Middleton (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton))

2016-11-08 19:30: Is the Milky Way Special? (Professor Chris Lintott (University of Oxford))

2016-11-15 19:30: Characterising Exoplanets with a Twinkle satellite, researchers and school students. (Dr Laura McKemmish)

2016-11-22 19:30: Neutron stars: beyond-ordinary stellar objects (Dr Arnau Rios)

2016-11-29 19:30: When black holes collide - The dawn of gravitational wave astronomy (Dr Michalis Agathos)

2017-01-13 14:00: New Directions in Ni-catalyzed Cross Coupling (Professor Abigail Doyle, Princeton University)

2017-01-24 19:45: A Comet's Tale (Jonathan Shanklin)

2017-01-31 19:45: Stars and the Origin of the Elements (Professor Christopher Tout (IOA))

2017-02-02 16:00: Inhibition of Protein-Protein Interactions Using Biomimetic Approaches (Professor Andrew Wilson, University of Leeds)

2017-02-07 19:45: Observing and simulating the reionization period of the Universe. (Dr Jonathan Chardin (IOA))

2017-02-21 19:45: Planets, comets, dust.. or aliens… around KIC8462852 (Professor Mark Wyatt (IoA))

2017-02-28 19:45: The Plurality of Worlds (Dr Amaury Triaud (IoA))

2017-03-07 19:45: Gaia - one billion objects in 3+ dimensions (Professor Gerry Gilmore (IOA))

2017-03-14 19:45: Our Dynamic Sun (Dr Helen Mason (DAMTP))

2017-03-15 16:00: Studies on the Molecular Recognition of aminoglycoside antibiotics by nucleic acids and proteins (Juan Luis Asensio, Instituto de Química Orgánica General, Madrid)

2017-04-21 13:00: Enzyme Catalysis, Inhibition & Resistance: A Design Perspective (Professor Bruce Tidor, MIT)

2017-05-08 14:30: Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture (Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Richard Tillyer, Merck)

2017-05-11 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles)

2017-05-11 16:00: Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis (Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles)

2017-06-22 11:00: Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry (Professor Jean-Marie Lehn)

2017-07-13 12:00: Sulfur Chemistry for Biology and the Environment (Dr Justin Chalker)

2017-10-24 19:45: The Beauty and Science of Nebulae (Dr Carolin Crawford)

2017-10-31 19:45: The Magnetic Sun (Professor Michael Proctor)

2017-11-07 19:45: The Discovery of Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsars (Dr Dom Walton)

2017-11-14 19:45: A random walk through accreting black holes (Dr William Alston, IoA Cambridge)

2017-11-21 19:45: Big space telescopes to search for life on other planets (Dr Ian Parry)

2017-11-28 19:45: Exoplanets and the Quest of "Universal Life"  (Prof Didier Queloz)

2017-12-07 16:00: Stereodivergent Catalysis, Strategies and Tactics Towards Secondary Metabolites as enabling tools for the Study of Natural Products Biology (Professor Erick M. Carreira, ETH Zürich)

2017-12-15 16:00: What inspires us to learn? (Fun Man Fung, National University of Singapore)

2018-01-23 19:45: Observations of the solar corona: a journey from the past to the future (Dr Giulio Del-Zanna)

2018-01-30 19:45: Title to be confirmed (Professor Anne Davis)

2018-02-06 19:45: How supermassive black holes talk to their host galaxies (Dr Martin Bourne)

2018-02-20 19:45: How to make planets: physical and chemical processes in protoplanetary discs (Dr John Ilee)

2018-02-23 16:30: The RSC Jeremy Knowles Award Lecture - Adapting the Chemistry and/or Biology of Proteostasis to Ameliorate Protein Aggregation Diseases  (Jeffery W. Kelly, Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Medicine, and The Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037)

2018-02-27 19:45: Quasars – a key component of galaxy evolution and the way to determine when the Universe reionised (Professor Paul Hewett)

2018-03-13 19:45: The Fullness of Space: discerning cosmic thermal evolution from the intergalactic medium (Dr Girish Kulkarni)

2018-04-16 16:00: "Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities" (Professor Thomas Ward, University of Basel)

2018-04-27 14:00: Polyaromatic Nanocapsules: from Strategic Synthesis to Host Functions (Professor Michito Yoshizawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

2018-06-11 10:00: Functionalization and Heteroleptic Assembly of Coordination Cages (Prof. Dr. Guido Clever (Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität Dortmund))

2018-07-24 11:00: Nanostructures Prepared from Self-Assembly of Pillararene-Based Macrocyclic Amphiphiles and Supramolecular Amphiphiles (Professor Feihe Huang, Zhejiang University)

2018-10-09 19:30: Everything from nothing: how our universe was made (Carlos Frenk)

2018-10-16 19:30: How to hunt for dark matter: telescopes, lab experiments, colliders, and putting it all together. (Dr Pat Scott)

2018-10-23 19:30: Listening to the Universe – LISA Pathfinder and LISA (Professor Timothy Sumner)

2018-10-30 19:30: How to find an exoplanet from your sofa (Professor Chris Lintott)

2018-11-06 19:30: ‘How to make a bigger supernova’ and ‘Optical interferometry: Because sometimes a 40-meter telescope just isn’t big enough’.  (Andrew Sellek and Dan Mortimer)

2018-11-12 16:00: Using Microwell Array Technology to Probe Chemistry and Biology at Their Fundamental Limits (Professor David R Walt, Harvard Medical School)

2018-11-13 19:30: Asteroseismology as a tool for astrophysics: from the deep interiors of stars to the evolution of the Milky Way (Andrea Miglio)

2018-11-20 19:30: Cassini-Huygens: Odyssey to Saturn and Titan (Professor David Southwood)

2019-01-22 19:30: Gaia - the Milky way census (Professor Gerry Gilmore)

2019-01-23 14:00: Athena SWAN Presentation (Professor Marcella Bonchio and Dr Emma Chapman)

2019-01-23 15:45: Supramolecular Architectures for Artificial Photosynthesis (Professor Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova and ITM-CNR, Department of Chemical Sciences))

2019-01-29 19:30: Characterising Exoplanet Atmospheres (Ryan MacDonald)

2019-02-05 19:30: Leading the New Space Age  (Claire Barcham)

2019-02-07 14:00: Melville Lectures 2019 "Luminescent complexes: assemblies, sensing, towards artificial virus" (Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg)

2019-02-11 14:30: Melville Lectures "Breakable and self-assembled materials: Synthesis and applications" (Professor Luisa de Cola, Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie, Supramoléculaires, Université de Strasbourg)

2019-02-12 19:30: Exploring the early Universe with super radio-telescopes: HERA and SKA (Nicolas Fagnoni)

2019-02-19 19:30: A job out of this world: my research and journey as a space scientist (Dr Ghina Halabi)

2019-02-26 19:30: The geology of Mercury and the BepiColombo mission (Professor David Rothery)

2019-03-05 19:30: Infrared Astronomy at NASA Ames Research Centre in the late 1980s, KAO to SOFIA (Paul Mulvaney)

2019-03-12 19:30: Catching Comets by their Tails (Professor Geraint Jones)

2019-10-22 19:30: Searching for exoplanets with PLATO (Dr Dominic Ford)

2019-10-29 19:30: Clusters of Galaxies (Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy))

2019-11-05 20:00: Active Galactic Nuclei: the powerful cores of the most luminous galaxies (Amy Rankine)

2019-11-12 19:30: Apollo at 50 - and the next giant leap for human kind (Dr Christopher Riley)

2019-11-19 19:30: Exozodiacal clouds - the local environment of habitable planets (Professor Mark Wyatt)

2019-11-26 19:30: Discovering Cosmic Reionisation (James Kent)

2019-12-03 19:30: Polluted White Dwarfs: the dead stars that swallow dead planets (Laura Rogers)

2020-01-21 19:30: The adventures of the Curiosity rover at Gale crater, Mars (Sanjeev Gupta)

2020-01-28 19:30: Quiet Please! The Engineering Challenges of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Space (Dave Wealthy)

2020-02-04 19:30: New World Discovery in the Era of Gaia and PLATO (Nicholas Walton)

2020-02-11 19:30: The Moon’s craters: a record of Earth’s violent past (Gareth Collins)

2020-02-25 19:30: Coevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes (Sarah Bosman)

2020-03-03 19:30: Behind the Dust with the Herschel Space Observatory  - the history of star formation in the Universe (Stephen Eales)

2020-03-10 19:30: Sounds of Space (Nigel Meredith)

 : Lewis Lecturer: 26th- 29th April (Prof. Timothy Manning Swager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 : Melville Lecturer: 2nd-6th May (Prof. Karen L. Wooley, Texas A&M University)