baz21 science lists


2005-10-31 20:30: Our Dynamic Sun (Dr Helen Mason, DAMTP)

2005-11-09 17:15: The Free Will Theorem (Professor John Horton Conway FRS, Princeton University)

2005-11-28 20:30: Packaging the genome: chromatin, DNA architecture and the role of proteins (Professor Dame Jean O Thomas FRS, Department of Biochemistry)

2005-12-16 09:00: Evolution of the Earth (Professor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Dr Andrew Mackenzie, Professor Dan Schrag. Professor Dan McKenzie FRS, Professor Dave Stevenson, FRS, and Professor Steve Sparks FRS.)

2006-02-13 20:30: Inositol: evolution's favourite molecule? (Professor Robin Irvine, FRS)

2006-02-27 20:30: Protein Folding.  Misfolding and disease. (Professor Sir Alan Fersht, FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2006-03-13 20:30: The Puppet Master - How the brain controls the body. (Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-16 20:30: Sentient Computing- Larmor Lecture (Professor Andy Hopper, The Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2006-10-30 20:30: The life habits of the trilobites (Professor Richard Fortey, FRS, Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, London)

2006-11-01 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Controlling the Cell Cycle (Sir Tim Hunt FRS, Cancer Research UK)

2006-11-13 20:30: Stem cells to synapses: how to construct a nervous system (Dr Andrea Brand, The Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute)

2006-11-27 20:30: Instabilities of Liquid Surfaces: Rayleigh meets Nanoscience (Professor Ullrich Steiner, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge)

2007-01-29 20:30: G I Taylor Lecture - Explaining the flow of elastic liquids (Professor E J Hinch FRS, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-12 20:30: Carbon Nanotubes- the Future for Electronics? (Professor Bill Milne, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-26 20:30: Persistent Infectious Diseases - Viruses and how we live with them (Professor Patrick Sissons, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge)

2007-03-12 20:30: Beanbags, fish oil and rose-tinted spectacles; navigating the path through dyslexia 'cures' (Professor Dorothy Bishop, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

2007-09-12 17:00: HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS – WHY HAVE LARGE SCALE APPLICATIONS TAKEN SO LONG? (Professor David Larbalestier of the Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA)

2007-10-15 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE, Dark Ages to Dark Endings: The Life Cycles of Galaxies (Professor Robert Kennicutt, Department of Astronomy)

2007-10-29 17:30: Ancient Woodlands (Professor Oliver Rackham OBE FBA)

2007-11-07 17:30: The physics of the Earth's interior (Professor Dan McKenzie CH FRS, Department of Earth Sciences)

2007-11-12 17:30: Imaging biology in the cancer patient - new ways to guide treatment.  (Towards the Star Trek Tri-corder) (Professor Kevin Brindle, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK)

2007-11-26 17:30: Hands-free writing (Professor David J C MacKay, Department of Physics)

2007-12-03 09:05: Tea/ coffee from 9.05 + Introduction (9.30) (Gos Micklem (Cambridge))

2007-12-03 09:40: The iGEM competition: Building with biology (James Brown (Cambridge) and Cambridge iGEM team)

2007-12-03 10:20: Computational Design in Synthetic Biology (Alfonso Jaramillo (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris))

2007-12-03 11:30: Towards large-scale integrated nucleic acid logic circuits (Georg Seelig (Caltech))

2007-12-03 12:10: Exploiting Scaffold Proteins to Generate Diverse I/O Dynamics in MAPK Pathways (Caleb Bashor (UCSF))

2007-12-03 14:00: Biological Engineering of Plant Systems (Jim Haseloff (Cambridge))

2007-12-03 14:40: Synthetic Biology: DNA version 2.0 (Jeremy Minshull (DNA2.0))

2007-12-03 15:50: Synthetic biology: from bacteria to stem cells (Ron Weiss (Princeton))

2007-12-03 16:30: General Discussion Session (All)

2008-01-28 17:30: G I Taylor Lecture - When is a structure a musical instrument?  Percussion instruments and other musical oddities (Professor Jim Woodhouse, Department of Engineering)

2008-02-11 17:30: Sundials and the calendar (Dr Frank King, Computer Laboratory)

2008-02-25 17:30: Unpredictability and chance in science and technology (Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy)

2008-03-10 17:30: RNA: the fourth dimension in evolution or how nurture could influence nature? (Professor David Baulcombe FRS, Professor of Botany, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-10-13 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE Seeing Nano: optics on the smallest scales (Professor Jeremy J Baumberg, NanoPhotonics Centre, Department of Physics)

2008-10-27 17:30: Writing the future: opportunities and challenges in inkjet printing (Professor Ian Hutchings FREng, Institute for Manufacturing)

2008-11-05 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Who owns science? (Professor Sir John Sulston FRS)

2008-11-10 17:30: Lost in translation: challenges in applying society's risks to individuals (Professor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk)

2008-11-24 17:30: All cells are born equal, but some are more equal than others (Dr Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK, The Gurdon Institute)

2008-12-12 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - Pluripotency, reprogramming and stem cells (SPEAKERS: 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)

2009-01-26 17:30: G I Taylor Lecture - How metals can fall apart: Vision, observation and G I Taylor (Professor L M Brown FRS, Department of Physics)

2009-02-09 17:30: Planar cell polarity: a large or small part of animal development? (Dr Peter A Lawrence FRS, Department of Zoology and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2009-02-23 17:30: The biomechanics of Spiderman: how insects walk on the ceiling (Dr Walter Federle, Department of Zoology)

2009-03-09 17:30: Machines that see (Professor Andrew Blake FRS FREng, Microsoft Research)

2009-07-09 17:30: The Voyage to the Beagle Letters, Henslow, Darwin and the Philosophical Society (Professor John Parker, Director Cambridge University Botanic Garden)

2009-10-12 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE - The internet and new forms of mathematical collaboration (Professor W T Gowers FRS, DPMMS)

2009-10-26 17:30: The Measure of the Universe: a crisis for cosmology (Professor G Efstathiou FRS, Kavli Institute for Cosmology)

2009-11-04 17:30: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Our cosmic environment (Professor Martin Rees FRS, Astronomer Royal)

2009-11-09 17:30: Hearing loss and hearing aids (Professor Brian C J Moore, FMedSci FRS, Professor of Auditory Perception)

2009-11-23 17:30: Tracing human ancestry using DNA (Dr Peter Forster, Director of Research, Institute of Forensic Genetics, University of Münster, Germany)

2009-12-07 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - Emotions in an age of communication (SPEAKERS: Ross Anderson, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Nicky Clayton, David Good, Mel Slater, Paul White  - ORGANISERS: Peter Robinson and Alan Blackwell DISCUSSION SESSION : Simone Schnall)

2010-01-25 17:30: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Stirring Tails of Evolution (Professor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP)

2010-02-08 17:30: The Dynamics of Avalanches (Dr Jim McElwaine, DAMTP)

2010-02-14 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemisty)

2010-02-22 17:30: The consequences of Chernobyl, from human health to genetic mechanisms (Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams, Strangeways Laboratory)

2010-03-08 17:30: What should we do about the diabetes epidemic? Insights from epidemiology (Dr R Simmons, Department of Public Health)

2010-03-14 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Simon Schaffer, Department of History of Philosophy and Science)

2010-10-11 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE - STRING THEORY - A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS (Professor Michael Green FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP)

2010-10-25 17:30: TENSEGRITY: THE ART AND MATHEMATICS OF PRE-STRESSED STRUCTURES (Dr Simon Guest, Department of Engineering)

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

2010-11-08 17:30: THE ANTIBODY REVOLUTION; FROM SCIENCE AND INVENTIONS TO COMPANIES AND MEDICINES (Sir Gregory Winter FRS, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2010-11-22 17:30: FROM VAN DER WAALS TO MODELLING PROTEIN CHRYSTALLISATION (Professor Daan Frenkel FRS, Department of Chemistry)

2010-12-07 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - MAKING LIGHT WORK (Speakers: 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)

2011-01-31 17:30: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - THE FLUID DYNAMICS OF GREEN BUILDINGS (Professor Paul Linden FRS, G I Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics)

2011-02-14 17:30: FRAGMENTS AND DROPLETS (Professor Chris Abell, Department of Chemistry)

2011-02-28 17:30: UNDERSTANDING AND CURING CANCER: LESSONS FROM EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (Professor Gerard Evan FRS, Department of Biochemistry)

2011-03-14 17:30: SOAP FILMS AND THE ATTRACTIONS OF CLASSICAL PHYSICS (Professor Simon J Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

2011-10-10 17:30: The diversity of extrasolar planetary systems: Clues to planet formation and migration (LARMOR LECTURE - Professor John Papaloizou, DAMTP)

2011-10-24 17:30: Lapis lazuli and the Virgin's Robe (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2011-11-07 17:30: Before the Silk Road - Food Globalisation in Prehistory (Professor Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology)

2011-11-21 17:30: Metallic Glasses: record-breaking properties for alloys from parvenus in the world of glasses (Professor A Lindsay Greer, Head of Department, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy)

2012-01-13 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - Geometry in Science (Professor Sir Michael Berry FRS; Professor Chris Calladine FRS ; Professor Gabor Domokos; Professor Jan Koenderink; Professor Gabriel Paternain; Professor Denis Weaire FRS)

2012-01-30 17:30: Bulk High Temperature Superconductors for High Field Engineering Applications (Professor David Cardwell, Professor of Superconducting Engineering, Department of Engineering)

2012-02-13 17:30: Gilding the lily: understanding angiosperm diversity through petal evolution and development (Dr Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences)

2012-02-27 17:30: Quantum chemical games of life (Professor Ali Alavi, Department of Chemistry)

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

2012-03-12 17:30: Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind? (Professor Simon Conway-Morris FRS, Department of Earth Sciences)

2012-03-28 18:00: "When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica's climate history" (Professor Jane Francis, Professor of Palaeoclimatology, of the University of Leeds)

2012-10-08 17:30: LARMOR LECTURE -  The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe (Professor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff)

2012-10-22 17:30: How Plants Grow: Chemical and Physical Interactions Create Developmental Patterns (Professor Elliot Meyerowitz ForMemRS, Inaugural Director The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-05 17:30: Seeing in three dimensions: philosophical issues and empirical findings (Professor Brian Rogers, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford)

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)

2012-11-19 17:30: Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open (Dr Julian Allwood, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2013-01-11 09:00: ONE DAY MEETING - BRAGG'S LAW (Sir 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)

2013-01-28 17:30: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful (Professor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng, Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Nanoscience Centre)

2013-02-11 17:30: Under the volcano: geological fieldwork in East Greenland (Dr Marian Holness, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2013-02-25 17:30: A V HILL LECTURE - Vaccines: from science to policy (Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge)

2013-03-11 17:30: Low Carbon Road Freight Transport (Professor David Cebon, Department of Engineering)

2013-04-24 18:00: The Inaugural Henslow Fellow Lectures - Turning the tables in plant-animal interactions: the tricks and traps of insect-eating pitcher plants (Dr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Plant Sciences)

2013-04-24 18:30: The Inaugural Henslow Fellows Lectures - Moving without a brain: how do fruit fly larvae explore? (Dr Jimena Berni, Department of Zoology)

2013-10-14 18:00: Physics, Chemistry,Materials Science and Biology from the Schrodinger Equation (Professor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics)

2013-10-28 18:00: Antarctica, Ozone and Change: some links between environmental concerns (Mr Jonathan Shanklin, British Antarctic Survey )

2013-11-11 18:00: The cultured chimpanzee: nonsense or breakthrough? (Professor William McGrew, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology )

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)

2013-11-25 18:00: Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing (Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)

2014-01-09 09:30: COLOUR (Organised by Professor John Mollon FRS)

2014-01-27 18:00: Fluid mechanical processes during geological sequestration of carbon dioxide (Professor John Lister, DAMTP)

2014-02-10 18:00: The dinosaur Iguanodon (1809-2013) - palaeobiology in action (Dr David B Norman, Reader in Palaeobiology & Curator of the Sedgwick Museum, Department of Earth Sciences)

2014-02-24 18:00: Hop, skip and jump - muscles are not just for running (Professor Michael Ferenczi, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore)

2014-03-10 18:00: Electric and Hybrid Powered Aircraft – making energy go further (Dr Paul Robertson, Department of Engineering)

2014-04-08 18:00: Perception and belief in psychosis (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-05-14 18:00: Henslow Fellows Lectures - Resolving the early record of animal evolution: Insights from the enigmatic Ediacaran Biota (Dr Alexander Liu, Department of Earth Sciences)

2014-05-14 18:30: The Henslow Fellow Lectures - Use of random matrices (Dr Stephanie Jacquot, formerly of the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences)

2014-10-13 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - The Computational Universe (Professor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA)

2014-10-27 18:00: Perception and belief in psychosis (Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry)

2014-11-10 18:00: The changing genome: signatures of mutagenesis in human cells (Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Sangar Institute)

2014-11-19 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Could computers understand their own programs? (Professor Sir Tony Hoare FRS FREng)

2014-11-24 18:00: MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare (Dr Andrew Flewitt, Department of Engineering)

2015-01-09 09:00: Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING (Organiser: Dr Silvia Vignolini)

2015-01-26 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Understanding the physics of molecular motors (Professor Eugene Terentjev, Department of Physics)

2015-02-09 18:00: Lighting the Future: Next generation LED lighting to save energy and improve our health (Professor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE FREng FRS, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy)

2015-02-23 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - Science and the quiet art revisited (Professor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford)

2015-03-09 18:00: Between rock and a hard place: soil, the ambiguous material (Professor Malcolm Bolton FREng, Department of Engineering)

2015-10-12 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - The statistical physics of stem cell biology: Dicing with fate (Professor Benjamin D  Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics, Department of Physics)

2015-10-26 18:00: On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere (Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences)

2015-11-09 18:00: The human brain - a lesson in green technology (Professor Simon Laughlin FRS, Professor of Neurobiology, Department of Zoology)

2015-11-11 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Molecules against cancer or for long-term memory storage (Professor Roger Y Tsien ForMemRS, Department of Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry and  HHMI, University of California, San Diego)

2015-11-23 18:00: Epigenetic inheritance and parent-of-origin effects (Professor Anne Ferguson Smith, Department of Genetics)

2016-01-25 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - Oxygen sensing: from worms to people and genes to drugs (Professor Patrick Maxwell DPhil FRCP FMedSci, Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine)

2016-02-08 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fracking - shale gas extraction and protecting buildings from tunnelling subsidence (Professor Lord Mair  CBE FREng FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Engineering)

2016-02-22 18:00: Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease (Professor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences)

2016-03-07 18:00: Towards a cure for Alzheimer's Disease (Professor Michele Vendruscolo, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry)

2016-03-18 09:00: Evolution of life - ONE DAY MEETING (Organisers: Professor Ray Goldstein FRS and Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS)

2016-10-10 18:00: Packing dominoes and other shapes (Professor Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics)

2016-10-24 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - Nanostructured steel: the challenge of manufacture   (Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia FRS FREng, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy)

2016-11-07 18:00: Molecular medicines for the lysosome (Professor Timothy Cox MD FRCP FMedSci, Professor of Medicine Emeritus)

2016-11-21 18:00: Climate change and local wildlife (Brian Eversham, Chief Executive of the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire)

2017-01-30 18:00: G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices (Professor Michael Cates FRS FRSE, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP)

2017-02-13 18:00: A Lab of One's Own: Science & Suffrage in World War One (Dr Patricia Fara, President, British Society for the History of Science)

2017-02-27 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - Systems level in vivo modelling of vertebrate physiology and pharmacology   (  Professor Calum A MacRae, Chief of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School, USA)

2017-03-01 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Evolution in action: Materials, Design and Sustainability (Professor Michael F Ashby, CBE FRS FREng, Emeritus Professor of Materials,  Department of Engineering)

2017-03-13 18:00: Environmental diversity of Architecture (Professor Koen Steemers BSc BArch MPhil PhD RIBA ARB, Professor of Sustainable Design, Department of Architecture)

2017-03-24 09:00: New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING (Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse)

2017-10-09 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life (Professor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics,  Cavendish Laboratory )

2017-10-23 18:00: On dangerous ground: understanding earthquake induced soil liquefaction (Professor Gopal Madabhushi, Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group,  Department of Engineering)

2017-11-06 18:00: Three phases of genome sequencing and their consequences for science and medicine (Professor Richard Durbin FRS,      Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge)

2017-11-20 18:00: Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity (Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology)

2018-01-29 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Waves in the airways: a carpet of microscopic rowers keeps us alive (Professor Pietro Cicuta, Professor of Biological Physics, Biological and Soft Systems, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of  Physics )

2018-02-07 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS PRIZE LECTURE - Towards a silent aircraft (Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM DBE FRS FREng, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering)

2018-02-12 18:00: Magnetic microscopy of meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system  (Professor Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences)

2018-02-26 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - The cortex and the hand of the primate: a special relationship (Professor Roger Lemon, Sobell Chair of Neurophysiology, Institute of Neurology, University College London)

2018-03-12 18:00: New micro-machines, new materials (Professor Mark Warner FRS, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cavendish  Laboratory, Department of Physics)

2018-03-23 09:00: What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING (Organisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate)

2018-10-08 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE - Why the Ancient Continents are special:  a geological detective story (Professor James Jackson FRS, Professor of Active Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences )

2018-10-22 18:00: Manipulating light at the nanoscale with plasmonics (Dr Emilie Ringe Department of Material Science and Metallurgy and Department of  Earth Sciences)

2018-11-05 18:00: Lecture has been cancelled  - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s  chemistry set   (Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry,  Department of Biochemistry )

2018-11-19 18:00: The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops (Professor Simon Tavaré  FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical  Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute)

2019-01-28 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Fluctuations in the life of a cell: maintaining order amidst disorder (Professor Vikram Deshpande, Department of Engineering)

2019-02-06 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - The Fuel of Life (Professor Sir John  E Walker FRS FMedSci,Nobel Laureate in Chemistry,  Medical Research Council, Mitochondrial Biology Unit )

2019-02-11 18:00:  When algebra meets geometry (Professor Caucher Birkar, DPMMS )

2019-02-25 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE - Cardiac Arrest:  From Genes to Mechanisms to Mind (A V HILL LECTURE -  Professor Pier Lambiase FRCP FHRS, Professor of Cardiology, UCL, London and St Barts London)

2019-03-11 18:00: Supertall Timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers (Dr Michael Ramage, Department of Architecture )

2019-03-21 13:15: 200TH ANNIVERSARY  TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences (Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris)

2019-03-22 09:00: 200TH ANNIVERSARY  TWO-DAY MEETING - The Futures of Sciences (Organiser Professor Simon Conway Morris)

2019-10-14 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE -  Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC? (Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. 18.00 - 19.00)

2019-10-28 18:00: Cancer: when friends become foes, and how to make them friends again (Professor Gerard Evan FRS FMedSci, Sir William Dunn Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry 18.00 - 19.00 )

2019-11-11 18:00: How to Hunt a Submarine (Professor Tom Kӧrner, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. 18.00 to 19.00)

2019-11-25 18:00: The Spirit of Inquiry: how the Cambridge Philosophical Society shaped modern science (Dr Susannah Gibson, Author of The Spirit of Inquiry, 18:00 - 19:00)

2020-01-27 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl (Professor Nigel Peake, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics 18.00 - 19.00)

2020-02-10 18:00: Modern Molecular Science and How It Is Changing Our Life (Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology  18.00-19.00)

2020-02-24 18:00: Simpson's question: How does behaviour determine evolution? (Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology 18.00 - 19.00 )

2020-02-26 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - What is epigenetics? And is it important? (Sir David Baulcombe, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences 18.00 - 19.00 )

2020-03-09 18:00: Vibration and Acoustics of Everyday Things (Dr Anurag Agarawal, Department of Engineering  18.00 - 19.00 )

2020-03-20 09:00: Meeting Cancelled - Science and the Futures of Medicine - One Day meeting (Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman and Dr James Fraser)

2021-01-28 00:00: ONLINE LECTURE - title to be confirmed (Professor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

2021-03-02 00:00: Larmor Lecture - Climate change and cascading risks (Professor Tim Benton  Research Director – Emerging Risks, and Director – Energy, Environment and Resources Programme  Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House)

2021-03-02 00:00: A V Hill Lecture - Kings and Queens of the Mountain: Studies of Extreme Physiology in Himalayan Sherpas (Dr Andrew Murray, Metabolic Physiology, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience)

2021-03-02 00:00: Lecture - Modern Molecular Science and How is it Changing our Life - Dr Ljiljana Fruk (Dr Ljiljana Fruk, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)

2021-03-24 00:00: Universal Darwinism: A Health Check at Forty (Professor Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

2021-03-26 00:00: G I Taylor Lecture - title to be confirmed (Dr Debora Sijacki, Institute of Astronomy)

2021-03-26 00:00: Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes - tracing the origins of the epidemic (Dr Peter Forster, (Cambridge))

2021-03-26 00:00: LECTURE - title to be confirmed (Dr Daniel Munoz-Espin, Group Leader in Cancer Early Detection, Department of Oncology)

2021-10-11 18:30: Larmor Lecture - Covid, Chaos and Climate: How mathematical models help to explain the universe (Professor Chris Budd OBE, FIMA, C Math, NTF Dept. of Mathematical Sciences  University of Bath )

2021-10-25 18:30: A V Hill Lecture - The Rewarded Brain (Professor Wolfram Schultz Professor of Neuroscience Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience )

2021-11-03 18:30: Honorary Fellows Lecture - Should we trust statistics? (Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE Chair, Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication)

2021-11-08 18:30: Urban tunneling - the challenges of creating underground space in historic cities  (Professor Giulia Viggiani, Professor of Infrastructure Geotechnics, Department of Engineering)

2021-11-22 18:30: The Biology of Eating (Professor Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Metabolism and Medicine, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Department of Medicine)

2022-02-13 18:30: Lecture - Professor Graham Burton - title tbc (Speaker to be confirmed)

2022-02-14 18:30: Should we Automate? (Professor Duncan McFarlane, Professor of Industrial Information Engineering and Head, Distributed Informaiion and Automation Laboratory, Department of Engineering)

2022-02-23 18:30: Honorary Fellows Lecture - Using electron microscopy to understand the molecules  of life (Professor Richard Henderson CH FRS FMedSci HonFRSC, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2022-02-28 18:30: Imaging cancer metabolism - Out of the lab and into the clinic (Professor Kevin Brindle FMedSci FRS, Professor of Biomedical Magnetic Resonance, Department of Biochemistry and Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre)

2022-03-14 18:30: Light-rechargeable Batteries: A New tool to Fight Climate Change? (Professor Michael de Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing )

2022-03-18 09:00: Our Quantum World: How Quantum Tehnologies Will Shape the Future - One day meeting (Organised by: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan)

2022-03-28 18:30: G I Taylor Lecture - Life in Moving Fluids (Professor Eric Lauga, Professor of Applied Mathematics, DAMTP)

2022-10-10 18:30: Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end (Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy)

2022-10-24 18:30: Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age (Professor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

2022-10-31 18:00: Cambridge Darwins in Conversation (Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow)

2022-11-07 18:30: A V HILL  Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress (Professor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London)

2022-11-21 18:30: Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery (Professor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science)

2023-01-30 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE –  Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes (Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford)

2023-02-13 18:00: Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development (Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience )

2023-02-27 18:00: Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species? (Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences )

2023-03-08 18:00: Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe (Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham)

2023-03-13 18:00: Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics (Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering)

2023-03-18 10:15: Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting (Organisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan)

2023-10-09 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials (Professor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy)

2023-10-23 18:00: Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story ( 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. )

2023-11-06 18:00: A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory (Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics )

2023-11-20 18:00: The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting (Professor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering )

2024-01-29 18:00: G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens (Professor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics )

2024-02-12 18:00: Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair (Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering)

2024-02-26 18:00: The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope (Professor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology)

2024-03-06 18:00: HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms (Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London.)

2024-03-11 18:00: Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart (Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge)

2024-03-22 09:00: SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE  One Day Meeting (Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh)

2024-10-14 18:00: Diagnostics Without Frontiers: A Regenerable Supply Chain For PCR In Low Resource Countries (Professor Lisa Hall FRSC CBE, Professor of Analytical Biotechnology, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology)

2024-10-28 18:00: LARMOR LECTURE Surging cylinders, flapping wings and gust encounters: Force production in unsteady flows (Professor Holger Babinsky, Professor of Aerodynamics,  Department of Engineering)

2024-11-11 18:00: A V HILL LECTURE  Pain: Why does it exist, how does it work and how can we more effectively treat it? (Professor Ewan St John Smith, Professor of Nociception, Deputy Head of Department, Department of Pharmacology)

2024-11-25 18:00: Signals from the beginning of the universe (Professor Jo Dunkley OBE, Joseph Henry Professor of Physics  and Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University)

2025-02-03 18:00: To Bend or to Break?  — new views on the hardening of metals (Professor Lindsay Greer ( Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy))

2025-02-17 18:00: Why there’s no such thing as “the” scientific advice (Professor Stephen John)

2025-03-03 18:00: Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life (Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)

2025-03-03 18:00: Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life (Professor Tuomas Knowles, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry)

2025-03-12 18:00: Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function (Professor Clare P. Grey)

2025-03-12 18:00: Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function (Professor Clare P. Grey)

2025-03-17 18:00: Acoustics of musical instruments - why is a saxophone like a violin? (Professor Jim Woodhouse ( CUED))

2025-03-28 09:00: The Unknown Maxwell (The Cambridge Philosophical Society)

2025-10-13 18:00: Our Chiral Universe (Professor David Tong)

2025-10-27 18:00: Reflections on dementia research and ageing societies (Professor Carol Brayne CBE - Cambridge Institute of Public Health)

2025-11-10 18:00: Putting the “S” into mechanics (Professor Keith Seffen. Cambridge University Engineering Department)

2025-11-24 18:00: A Lot of Hot Air: volcanic degassing and its impact on our environment (Professor Marie Edmonds FRS. Department of Earth Sciences)

2026-02-02 18:00: Cars, aeroplanes, and quantum physics: Why complexity makes life simpler for the vibration engineer (Professor Robin Langley FREng. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2026-02-11 18:00: Building Embodied Intelligence: Insights from Wayve’s Journey in Autonomous Driving (Dr Alex Kendall)

2026-02-16 18:00: What insect-watching can tell us about the evolution of animal behaviour (Dr William Foster)

2026-03-02 18:00: What is Digital Identity all about?  (Professor Jon Crowcroft FRS. Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge)

2026-03-16 18:00: Peer review, past, present… and future (Professor Aileen Fyfe FRSE, FRHistS, FHEA, University of St Andrews)

2026-03-27 09:00: David MacKay: Energy and Information (One-Day Meeting)