Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

Energy Efficiency in Warehouse-Scale Computers

Luiz André Barroso.

Lecture Theatre 2, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 15:15-16:15

Global Student Education Forum (GSEF)

Professor KATHLEEN McCARTNEY (Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education) 'Whether the Environment Matters More for Children in Poverty'

To reserve a seat, please do so at http://www.gseforum.org/kathleen_mccartney

Speaker to be confirmed.

Kennedy Room, Cambridge Union Society.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 19:30-20:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Cambridge University Eco-Racing: Solar Cars

Martin McBrien - Cambridge University Eco Racing Founder.

LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Energy storage in acquifers

Mrs Clare Wildfire, Fulcrum consulting.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Elements of a Networked Urbanism

Adam Greenfield - Nokia Helsinki.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010 - Learn how to pitch your ideas

Dr Shamus Husheer, Co-Founder and CEO of Cambridge Temperature Concepts; David Lloyd, Co-Founder of Moviestorm; Emmanuel Carraud, Co-Founder of MagicSolver.com Ltd; Oliver Lamming, Co-Founder of MagicSolver.com Ltd; Leon Palm, Co-Founder of MagicSolver.co.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

Tuesday 24 November 2009, 18:00-20:30

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Globalization after Neoliberalism’s Troubled Decline

Note change of day

Daniel Drache, York University, Toronto.

SCR, 17 Mill Lane.

Monday 23 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Foundation optimisation and its application to pile reuse

Andy Leung, CUED.

Engineering Department - LR6.

Friday 20 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

New Applications for Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes

Prof Maurizio Prato (Universita’ di Trieste, Italy).

Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

Friday 20 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Teaching control using lego

Dr Glenn Vinnicombe, Control Group, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0.

Friday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010 - Special debate (part of 'Silicon Valley Comes to Cambridge' programme)

Reid Hoffman, Executive Chairman and a Co-Founder of LinkedIn; Jonathan Kestenbaum, Chief Executive of NESTA; Dr William H Janeway, senior adviser at Warbug Pincus; Prof Andrew Gamble, Head of Department of Political and International Studies in Cambridge.

Cambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 19:30-20:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

A consideration of the effects of dust aerosol and surface dust on Snowball Earth deglaciation

Dorian Abbot (Dept. of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago).

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Enterprise Network

Natural Fibres in Construction - Innovative Applications and Processes

Dr Tim Yates - Technical Director, Building Research Establishment; Mizi Fan, Brunel University; Ed Suttie, Director of Timber Division, Building Research Establishment; Professor Peter Walker, Dept. Architecture & Civil Engineering, University of Bat.

Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge, UK.

Tuesday 17 November 2009, 14:00-17:30

Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme Seminar Series

They think birds are more important than people': Conservation, land and natures in a South African World Heritage Site

Dr Knut Nustad, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

The Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

Monday 16 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Temporal analysis and small world properties of social and technological networks.

Cecillia Mascolo, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 16 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

lpm29's list

The Cambridge Apprentice

Speaker to be confirmed.

Judge Business School.

Saturday 14 November 2009, 10:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Balancing conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon: do win-win solutions really exist?

Dr Toby Gardner, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

Entertaining Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

Sustainable built environments: Building design, building performance and building occupants.

Matthew French.

CRASSH Seminar Room 17 Mill Lane.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 12:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Engineering Fundamentals of Energy Efficiency

Jonathan Cullen - University of Cambridge.

LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Burning Ice: Art, Science & Climate Change

Quentin Cooper.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Trinity Street.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 18:15-20:00

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/10 - Recognising Opportunities

David Cleevely, Founder of Analysys; Dr Andy Richards, Biotechnology Entrepreneur.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 18:00-20:30

Cambridge University Enterprise Network

Social Enterprise and International Development: Bamboo wind turbine blades raise spirits in China

Dr Jim Platts, Cambridge Environmental Initiatives, University of Cambridge.

The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner’s, Gresham Road, CB1 2ES.

Monday 09 November 2009, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge/Africa Collaborative Research Programme Seminar Series

Wealth, Environment, and Health in Africa: The Implications of Mobility and Mobile Technology

Dr Clapperton Mavhunga, MIT, USA.

The Mond Building Seminar Room, Centre of African Studies.

Monday 09 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Sedgwick Club talks

What Energy Future after the World Oil Production Peak?

Pierre Mauriaud - Total.

Bullard Lecture Theatre, Bullard Labs..

Monday 09 November 2009, 16:00-18:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Mechanisms for the land/sea warming contrast exhibited by simulations of climate change

Dr Manoj Joshi, NCAS Climate, University of Reading.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 November 2009, 14:15-15:15

Monday Mechanics Seminars (DAMTP)

Arctic sea ice thickness

Joao Rodrigues (DAMTP).

MR5, CMS.

Monday 09 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Physics Challenges of Fusion Power

Professor Steve Cowley, Director of the JET Fusion lab.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Dr. Michael Pollitt: Delivering the Low Carbon Electricity System

Dr. Michael Pollitt, Electricity Policy Research Group, Judge Business School.

Department of Pathology, (Tennis Court Road), Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 19:30-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Prof. John Beddington - Title TBC

Prof. John Beddington.

Union Society Building, 9a Bridge Street.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 20:00-21:00

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010

Enterprise Tuesday 2009/2010 - Rapid Business Growth

Sanjeev Bikhchandani, CEO and Co-Founder Naukri.com.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 18:00-20:30

Department of Politics and International Studies Research Seminar Series

Is Global Democracy Possible?

Jan Aart Scholte, PAIS, University of Warwick.

SCR, 17 Mill Lane.

Tuesday 03 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Science and technology in international development

Professor David King, Tim Radford, Peter Head.

Cripps Court, Chesterton Lane, Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Department of Engineering, Production Processes Group Seminars, Institute for Manufacturing

Engineering fundamentals of energy efficiency

Jonathan Cullen (Department of Engineering).

Seminar Room B at the Institute for Manufacturing, Mill Lane.

Friday 14 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

Seminars on Sustainable Scenarios

The Impact of Climate Change on Poor Countries

Dr Flavio Comim (CSC/VHI, St Edmund's College).

St Edmund's College, Garden Room.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Optoelectronics Group

Organic semiconductors for electronics, sensors and photovoltaics

Prof. Michael Turner, University of Manchester.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 14:30-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

"Isoprene and biofuels: Sensitivity studies in a global chemistry-climate model" (Rachel) / "Emissions, transport and deposition of volcanic aerosol in the troposphere" (Jane)

Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Dept. of Geography, and Rachel Pike, CAS.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 March 2008, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge University International Development (CUID)

Cornell Jackson (Planet Finance) on microfinance

Planet Finance.

LG18, Law Faculty.

Monday 04 February 2008, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge University Student Pugwash Society Talks

Nuclear Power, Political Power and Tony Blair

Lord Wilson of Dinton, Master of Emmanuel College.

The Old Library, Emmanuel College.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 17:30-18:45

Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College

Free Software and Communism

Mr. Edward Brambley, Research Fellow in Applied Mathemathics.

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Monday 12 November 2007, 19:30-21:00

CAPE-CIKC Advanced Technology Lectures

Generation of Electrical Power from Wind and Waves

Dr. Richard A. McMahon (CAPE).

Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, 9, JJ Thomson Ave..

Friday 09 November 2007, 16:00-17:00

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

The Chameleon Plane

Dr Matthew Juniper.

New Cellars, Pembroke College.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 21:00-22:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

‘The weather within’; 9 Bio-climatic designs

Alan Short, Professor of Architecture - University of Cambridge.

LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Humanitarian events

Can floating gardens in Bangladesh combat climate change?

Jamie Clerk, Practical Action.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge University United Nations Association (CUUNA)

Consumption and Happiness

62nd anniversary of the United Nations

Professor Sir Brian Heap.

Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Panel Discussion on the UK Climate Bill

Dr Terry Barker, Dr David Frame, Tim Helweg-Larsen.

LG18, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 23 October 2007, 14:45-16:30

Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College

Is the world becoming more religious?

Revd. Christopher Lewis, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.

Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

Monday 22 October 2007, 21:00-22:00