Kelvin Club - The Scientific Society of Peterhouse, Cambridge


2016-10-11 20:15: Gods, Devils & Alcohol - their influence in chemical nomenclature (Dr P Wothers)

2016-10-25 20:15: Making and keeping a shell: the challenges of changing oceans (Dr E Harper)

2016-11-08 20:15: Do we actually know what a computer can do? - On the foundations of computational mathematics (Dr A Hansen)

2017-01-24 20:35: When galaxies collide (Dr. Carolin Crawford ( Institute of Astronomy))

2017-02-14 20:30: The acoustics of everyday objects (Dr Anurag Agarwal, Department of Engineering)

2017-03-14 20:30: From one to many: how animals develop from a single cell (Dr Tim Weil, Department of Zoology)

2017-10-10 20:30: Bragg, Perutz and Kendrew: The Origins of Molecular Biology (Sir John Meurig Thomas ( University of Cambridge))

2018-01-23 18:15: From atoms to planets: Understanding planetary magnetic records using nanoscale technology (Dr Joshua Einsle)

2018-02-13 18:15: Snailing in High Society, or what I did in my holidays (Dr Justin Gerlach)

2018-02-27 18:15: Does a neuron know that it's asleep? (Dr David Tourigny)

2018-10-25 20:30: Displacing big data: How cybercriminals cheat the system. (Dr. Alice Hutchings, Cambridge)

2018-11-15 20:30: Coral, climate change and a conservation conundrum. (Paul Pearce-Kelly, Senior Curator for Invertebrates, Lower Vertebrates and Research at the Zoological Society of London)

2019-01-22 20:30: Spore Biotechnology (Dr. Christie, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-12 20:30: Petrean Chemistry, Euler, and the Bridges of Koenigsberg (Dr. Roger Mallion, University of Kent)

2019-02-28 18:15: Rewiring photosynthesis for power and fuel generation (Dr Jenny Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)

2019-10-22 20:30: Nanophotonics: from Michael Faraday to single molecule sensing (Dr Marlous Kamp)

2019-11-05 20:30: Every Man's Fluid Mechanics (Professor Ian Wilson, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-19 20:30: Turning cells inside out: how epithelial cells polarise and why this goes wrong in cancer (Professor Daniel St Johnston, The Gurdon Institute, Department of Cambridge)

2020-01-21 20:30: Where does cancer come from? (Professor Richard Gilbertson, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-18 20:30: Hacking the Code of Life (Dr Nessa Carey, Owner of Carey International Impact Training, Visiting Professor at Imperial College London)

2020-03-10 18:00: Is Electricity Storage in Hot Water? (Dr Alex White, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2021-01-26 20:30: Why does malaria still exist? (Professor Julian Rayner, Director of the Cambridge Institute for Medical Research )

2021-02-16 20:30: AI: the model is simple until proven otherwise (Dr. Anita Faul, British Antarctic Survey)

2021-03-09 20:30: Where is my Nanobot? (Professor Jeremy Baumberg, Director of the Nanophotonics Centre)

2021-10-19 20:30: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and "beyond-Li" battery technologies function (Professor Clare Grey, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-09 20:30: The Awakening of the Genome: How Embryonic Transcriptional Programs are Initiated (Dr. Jasmin Stowers, Babraham Institute )

2021-11-30 20:30: Monsters in the Universe: New Insight into Black Holes (Professor Joseph Pesce, National Science Foundation)

2022-01-25 20:30: Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents (Professor Elizabeth Murchison)

2022-02-15 20:30: Plastic packaging: a wicked problem (Dr. Claire Barlow)

2022-03-08 20:30: Learning from Pandemics (Professor Charlotte Summers)